Charles Platt
It is a very popular belief that cards were invented in order to amuse King Charles VI of France, at a time when the monarch was mentally unstable. This legend, however, like so many pretty stories of the past, has no foundation in fact… Charles Platt, Card Fortune Telling: A Lucid Treatise Dealing with All […]
Allen Stairs
Tarot is valuable quite apart from whether it has any power to predict the future. Indeed, whether the tarot can predict the future is not the most important question to ask. What makes tarot valuable lies elsewhere. Tarot is a rich set of symbols that allows us ample room for thinking about our lives in […]
Paul Foster Case
The Fool, then, symbolizes what Dr. Waite, in his Key to the Tarot, calls ‘the state of first emanation.’ He is the primary aspect of universal consciousness, which we term superconsciousness. He is the cosmic Life-Breath, about to descend into the abyss of manifestation. Paul Foster Case, The Tarot: A Key to the Wisdom of […]
Joseph Campbell
It is not to identify oneself with any of the figures or powers experienced. The Indian yogi, striving for release, identifies himself with the Light and never returns. But no one with a will to the service of others would permit himself such an escape. The ultimate aid of the quest must be neither release […]
Hettienne Grobler
The history of both the inherent power and the eradication of the Divine Feminine as an ideology, have been hidden and suppressed by each new ruling power and finally She was removed from religion and relegated to a small part of the story. In this deck, I set out to gather and collect old myths, […]
Enrique Enriquez
If you have experienced the tarot, you know that it moves you, it moves you in the same sense that if you get into a church or a cathedral, you feel moved. Even if you were not religious, even if you don’t believe in god. So my suspicion is that the wisdom that is being […]
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Each new deck of cards contains the subjectivity of its authors, their vision of the world, their moral prejudices, their limited level of awareness. Alejandro Jodorowsky, The Way of the Tarot: The Spiritual Teacher in the Cards, 9.
Dennis Clay
The tarot, despite what I learned in church, is not anti-Christian. It is, though, a way of looking at the world that is similar to, but distinct from that which is generally taught. Just look at the progression of the Swords (standing for intellect) for an example. The tarot is generally for those that want […]
Arthur Edward Waite
The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs. Given the inward meaning of its emblems, they do become a kind of alphabet which is capable of indefinite combinations and makes true sense in all. On the highest plane it offers a key to the Mysteries, in a manner […]
Sam Harris
Spirituality begins with a reverence for the ordinary that can lead us to insights and experiences that are anything but ordinary. And the conventional opposition between humility and hubris has no place. Yes, the common is vast and appears indifferent to our moral schemes, but every present moment of consciousness is profound. In subjective terms, […]