Tarot: How To Re-Create Yourself With a Deck of Cards
Tarot as Picasso might have painted it
by Philippe St. Genoux
A game which you play
This is a really interesting book.
It’s not like a normal “How To” tarot book.
There’s no lists of meanings telling you how to interpret the cards.
Instead it offers you various ways you can approach the cards to discover the meaning for yourself.
It ditches a lot of the old tropes of tarot reading – the Fool’s
journey, synchronicity, archetypes, psychic powers and the like – and
offers in their place a new understanding of the process, as an
art-form.
Well I say “new”. In fact he delves into the tarot’s past to
rediscover its roots—as a game, which you play—and introduces us to a
long-forgotten form, originating in the Renaissance period in Italy,
known as Tarocchi Appropriati.
The idea of the game was to select one of the trumps (the major
arcana) and to assign it to an…
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