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Books > Mind, Body & Spirit > Fortune-telling & divination > Fortune-telling by cards (cartomancy) > Tarot
The origins of the tarot have been lost in the mists of time. Most
scholars have guessed that its origins were in China, Egypt, or
India. In Mystical Origins of the Tarot, Paul Huson has expertly
tracked each symbol of the Minor Arcana to roots in ancient Persia
and the Major Arcana Trump card images to the medieval world of
mystery, miracle, and morality plays. A number of tarot historians
have questioned the use of the tarot as a divination tool prior to
the 18th century. But the author demonstrates that the symbolic
meanings of the Major Arcana were evident from the time they were
first employed in the mid-15th century in the popular divination
practice of sortilege. He also reveals how the identities of the
court cards in the Minor Arcana were derived from a blend of pagan
and medieval sources that strongly influenced their interpretation
in tarot divination. Mystical Origins of the Tarotprovides a
thorough examination of the original historical source for each
card and how the cards' divinatory meanings evolved from these
symbols. Huson also provides concise and practical card-reading
methods designed by the cartomancers of the 18th and 19th centuries
and reveals the origins of the card interpretations promoted by the
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and A. E. Waite.
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Knights Templar Tarot
(Cards)
Floreana Nativo; Illustrated by Franco Rivolli
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The Solar Way
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Nina Roudnikova; Translated by Charlotte Cowell
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Complementing the 2017 release by the same author about the western Zodiac, Paolo Barbieri brings us in to the world of Chinese Astrology, with the 12 Signs based on animals. His extraordinary art blends with the Yin and the Yang to create 24 cards of great power - exploring an alternative view to the Signs and Astrology.
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