Postmodernism has already swept all the major artistic disciplines: art, architecture, literature, dance and music. Brian Williams offers a postmodern twist to the tarot.
Take the next step in Tarot Looking for new ways to expand your understanding of Tarot? Renowned Tarot specialist Valerie Sim helps Tarot enthusiasts step out of the box and advance their practice to a new level. Emphasizing a fun, relaxed approach, she teaches how to break rules in order to stimulate creativity. Readers learn many valuable Tarot techniques, including the comparative method, which involves practicing with several decks to fully understand each card and its abundant possibilities for interpretation. Tarot Outside the Box also offers original spreads, sample readings, and valuable advice for practicing Tarot without querents, engaging in interactive readings (both reader and querent participation), and using Tarot for creative writing.
The Fool on a journey riddled with fools Here is a classic, traditional Tarot that's undeniably unique in its execution, created by one of America's most prominent and prolific tarot artists. It is the Fool's Journey spelled out in images that are fun and funny, strange and elegant. Every card is closely inspired by the much-loved classic of German culture, Das Narrenschiff (The Ship of Fools), by Sebastian Brant. The Fool card has emerged in recent decades as a pivotal figure of the Tarot. He is the human personality in its most innocent, most courageous state: the inner child. His journey is the path of lessons, obstacles, and pleasures he encounters on life's adventure as represented in the Tarot. Selling Features ·By one of America's most prominent and prolific Tarot artists ·A classic and traditional Tarot uniquely based on images of freedom and foolishness ·For beginning and advanced Tarot readers and Tarot collectors ·Furthers the concept of the Fool card as the pivotal figure of the Tarot
The Big Book of Tarot Meanings is a comprehensive guide to tarot card meanings for every category from work and finance to health and relationships written by beloved tarot influencer, Sam the Cosmic Witch.
Linda Falorio, creator of the Occult bestseller, The Shadow Tarot, is an internationally recognized artist and writer. The Shadow Tarot, first published in 1988 has been distributed in countries all around the world and is in use on every continent of the Planet. This newly released and much anticipated edition of The Shadow Tarot includes full color images of all seventy-eight cards representing both Major and Minor Arcana. The Major Arcana cards are based on the twenty-two paths of the Qliphoth described by Aleister Crowley in his Liber 231 and further embellished by Kenneth Grant in his The Nightside Of Eden. The Minor Arcana of this new edition arise from the entities described in the Goetia. The Shadow Tarot has been created as an exploration tool for delving into those areas of the psyche that find their reflection in the Collective Unconscious and the Archetypal Shadow. The images represent the Nightside of consciousness as opposed to our ordinary "dayside" reality. Through her art and writing Linda seeks to create a direct outré experience in the viewer of transforming states of self-awareness; to open Gates into vast, unexplored inner geographies of the psyche, finding beauty and power in the twistings and turnings of the Inner Labyrinth. The artist is also known for her magickal altarpieces, for magickal portraits and for interpreting personal symbols and dreams on canvas.
Bestselling tarot author Brian Williams brings us the first modern presentation of the unique Italian Renaissance tarot deck known as the Minchiate, with insightful commentary and subtle interpretations of the original art.
Arthur E. Waite and artist Pamela Colman Smith's Rider-Waite Tarot (1909) is the most popular Tarot in the world. Today, it is affectionately referred to as the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot in recognition of the high quality of Smith's contributions. Waite and Smith's deck has become the gold standard for identifying and analyzing contemporary Tarot and other meditation decks based on archetypes. Developments in both visual and literary history and theory have influenced Tarot since its fifteenth-century invention as a game and subsequent adaptations for esotericism, cartomancy, and meditation. This analysis consider Tarot in relation to established modern and postmodern art movements, such as Symbolism, Surrealism, and Pattern and Decoration Art, as well as the concepts and theories informing both the dominance and the dissolution of the modernist "grid" and hierarchical priorities. This work also explores the close connection between Tarot and the invention of the literary novel and includes new material on the representation of Tarot in film and fiction. A new chapter addresses the growing influence of the archetypal "shadow" and "shadow work" on Tarot as an artistic form, narrative genre, and practice in the new millennium.
Presenting detailed explanations, step-by-step directions, and creative interpretations, this book provides readers with a solid, practical understanding of Tarot as a discipline. Giles explores the various ways in which the Tarot can be used in divination, therapy, magic, and personal growth; explains how to build skills working with the cards; and discusses Tarot card collecting, art, and scholarship. 20 photos. 20 drawings.