The following quotes are from
Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom by Rachel
Pollack.
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"Around the
middle of the fifteenth century, not so long after the first written references
in Europe to cards of any kind, an artist named Bonifacio Bembo painted a set of
unnamed and unnumbered cards for the Visconti family of Milan. These pictures
comprise the classic deck for a Italian game called 'Tarocchi': four suits of
fourteen cards each, plus twenty-two cards showing different scenes and later
called 'trionfi' -- in English, 'triumphs', or 'trumps'."
...
"Today we see the Tarot as a kind of path, a way to personal growth through
understanding of ourselves and life."
...
"For Bembo (and whoever his predecessors might have been) did create an
archetype, whether consciously or from deep instinct. Beyond any system or
detailed explanations, the images them selves, changed and elaborated over the
years by different artists, fascinate and entrance us. In this way they draw us
into their mysterious world which ultimately can never be explained, but only
experienced."
The pages linked below offer some of the associations inspired
by the Tarot 'trumps'
that I've found in the worlds of art, literature, and the internet,
or one of the cards I've made myself.
(Sorry...these pages are not finished yet...heck, I've just
barely begun them!)
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Fool |
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Magician |
High Priestess |
Empress |
Emperor |
Hierophant |
Lovers |
Chariot |
Strength |
Hermit |
Wheel of Fortune |
Justice |
Hanged Man |
Death |
Temperance |
Devil |
Tower |
Star |
Moon |
Sun |
Judgment |
World |
