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Books > Health, Home & Family > Mind, body & spirit > Fortune-telling & divination > Fortune-telling by cards (cartomancy) > Tarot
The most eagerly anticipated tarot kit of the year! In 1995, David Bowie and Davide De Angelis began collaborating on album art for Bowie's album Outside, a creative working relationship that endured for more than seven years and spanned a number of projects, including the development of art for the album Earthling and concepts for stage sets, books, products, and art shows. Inspired by their years-long creative collaboration, Davide De Angelis has produced a fascinating tarot deck, decades in the making, that expertly weaves together intricate sacred geometries, alchemy, magic, and the sacred teachings of the world's mystery traditions. This deck is a must-have for collectors and a perfect reading deck designed to help you connect with spirit or energize a creative project.
Boxed kit (5¼ x 8) includes a 78-card deck (3 x 5½) and a 192-page color guidebook.
'A beautiful, playful, intriguing book.' Nina Stibbe Every time you
draw a card, you open up possibilities. What will appear and what
will you see? What lessons could the cards offer up? What aspects
of yourself might they reveal? Discover the tarot with Wild Card, a
friendly, funny and straightforward guide to the seventy-eight
cards, their stories and meanings. At its heart, the tarot is a
storytelling device, a deck of symbols and narratives that can
spark conversations, inspire ideas, and reveal new perspectives.
And you don't need to be psychic to use it: it is a practice that
is open to everyone. In this beautifully illustrated guide, tarot
readers Jen Cownie and Fiona Lensvelt introduce each of the cards,
drawing on literature, pop culture, and their own experiences, and
encourage you to add your voice to this centuries-old tradition.
Whether you are learning to read for yourself and others,
refreshing your knowledge, or just curious, Wild Card will show you
how the tarot can add a little bit of magic to your life.
According to legend, the Kamasutra was created by the Indian god
Shiva who, overwhelmed by the joys of sexual experience, wrote a
servant a treatise on erotic art. Inspired by the original
Kamasutra, this deck is meant to aid seekers in their own quest for
enlightenment through the senses.
Publisher Review: I feel I have to start this review by stating
that this deck is filled with very explicit illustrations of
couples involved in sexual relations. If that alone is a "deal
breaker," you have no reason to continue with this review. Next,
I'd like to look at the source text for this deck, the Kama Sutra.
Many people talk of this book as having great spiritual value. They
approach it as a key Tantric (a small part of Tantra involves
spiritualized sexuality) text. Neither concept it true. It is far
closer to what might be called a rule book for marriage. It is
composed of seven sections, of which sections 3-6 are about how to
get a wife, how a chief wife should act, how other wives should act
and advice on how to become a courtesan. Section seven is about how
to attract a partner and includes the closest thing to instructions
on sexual magick found in the entire book. Section one, the
introduction, introduces various Vedic spiritual concepts and may
simply be slapped onto the book in order to give it some
legitimacy. Indeed, at least one historian claims the entire book
was a collection of other texts. The remaining section is the part
of the book that is most famous. It includes numerous legalistic
and dogmatic concepts on how to have sexual relations, some of
which require a great deal of physical strength and agility. It
also describes 64 types of sexual acts. I vividly remember getting
a copy of this book when I was about 14 years old on a vacation in
Palm Springs. I eagerly tried reading it and no matter how much I
skipped, I couldn't help but find it stultifying, dated, and silly.
That brings us to an overview of the art in this deck. As described
in the deck attributes below, the Art School Vijai & Ram of
Rajastan have done an absolutely magnificent job of producing
sexually explicit modern art in the style and character of of 17th
and 18th century Indian art (heavily influenced by Mughal-style
art) often found in published editions of the Kama Sutra. You'll
instantly recognize the style. . . read more.
Meet the people and personalities of the tarot in a whole new way
with Your Tarot Court. This book gives you the confidence you need
to tackle the trickiest part of any deck: the court cards. You'll
explore the tarot court archetypes and discover new ways to
identify and work with these enigmatic cards. Your Tarot Court is
designed with contemporary readers in mindit discusses gender as a
social construct, translates the royal hierarchy for a modern
world, and more. Professional reader Ethony Dawn guides you through
the court, offering techniques, spreads, and interpretations that
make the cards more accessible and understandable.
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Native American Tarot
(Cards)
Laura Tuan; Illustrated by Sergio Tisselli
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The symbolic language of native Americans is extremely profound yet immediate. It is close to the rhythms of the sky, whose messages are heard and interpreted by the Shaman, the intermediary between the sky and the earth. The knowledge of the Tarot is joined here with the centuries-old wisdom of Native Americans.
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