Tarocco Tavaglione/Stairs of Gold study

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 15 Sep 2003, and now archived in the Forum Library.

Cerulean	15 Sep 2003
...I had a dream last night that I was looking for it because I was going to check it out with Tavaglione's Italian booklet on the Mantegna (available in Italian at alidastore.com). In the dream, I was able to read both the Italian booklets and the deck. I woke up, found the deck and realized in order to even attempt that dream, I should start working with it. At the very least, it helps me learn other tarot related concepts in one compact package. I had clipped off the white borders to make it more comfortable to me--so now I'll try do do something with it Anyway, I did some searches and maybe we can start a discussion thread? I started a yahoogroup called Stairs-of-Gold@yahoogroups.com under my alternative email (aidamselfly@yahoo.com). Hope there's some interest. This is a relatively inexpensive tarot with lots of things crunched into it's large cards and calligraphic 80 page book. It has also been around for decades and you can see the whole deck at www.tarot.com. I'll try doing a few readings, maybe a review and maybe try a card a week or every two weeks, post a little to this thread. At least keywords and main concepts for my own study! Mari H.

Cerulean	15 Sep 2003
1. Deck discussion -- world card and guide to deck http://www.thesmophoria.net/SecretSanctuary/majors.htm Truly amazing! They did a great job. Hope this helps those who have or are considering the deck. Later: only one card described so far, but she did add an August 2003 update, so the website is still active. 2. Introduction in booklet: http://www.btinternet.com/~abraxa9/Gnostichome/Tarotfold/Tarotmainpage.htm 3. Mark Filpas' tarot table using Tavaglione assignmnets http://www.spiritone.com/~filipas/Masquerade/Esoteric/Worlds/gmnchrt1.html 4. sample spread http://tarot-cards.crystals2.com/ 5. Full deck, enlarged cards for good study http://www.gambler.ru/sukhty/decks/d00004/d00004.htm 6. Interesting occult/Golden Dawn discussion, mentions Yeats and Stairs of Gold in passing... http://users.rcn.com/occult/occulus/thedemise_000.html 7. Hints of Stairs of Gold Tree of Life assignments http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:u20RsacMuYgJ:homepage.mac.com/antallan/elements.html+stairs+of+gold+tarot&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 In the next post I'll add the Tavaglione's Tree of Life assignments to the trumps...based on older systems such as Papus and Marseilles/Milanese pattern of Justice as card eight and Strength as card 11 and the Fool assigned as Shin.

Cerulean	18 Sep 2003
I did a cut and paste from a past posting someone else did--the sources are supposed to be the following: Eliphas Levi, Papus, Mouni Saddhu, Valentin Tromberg and others -- this is the layout also of the "Stairs of Gold" deck by Giorgio Taviglione: 1. Aleph = juggler 2: beth = High Priestess 3: gimel = Empress 4: daleth = Emperor 5: Heh = Pope 6: vau/vav = Lovers 7: zain = Chariot 8: heth = Justice 9: teth = Hermit 10: Yod = Wheel 11: kaph = Strength 12: lamed = Hanged Man 13: mem = Death 14: nun = Temperance 15: samach = Devil 16: ayin = Tower 17: phe/peh = Star 18: tzaddi = Moon 19: quoph = Sun 20: resh = Judgment 21: shin = Fool 22: tau = World I think I also noticed this was the system suggested in Mary Greer's earlier edition of Tarot for Yourself (I don't know if she changed the earlier table in the later edition of the book). I don't know if it is an accurate, older or better assignment--supposedly Tavaglione's tarot ideas pulled together older ideas in his Stairs of Gold deck. I know he used the Milanese/Marseilles assignment of 8 for Justice and 11 for Strength.

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