dminoz
I've had this book for a while now, and it has slowly and steadily become the only tarot book I consult for meanings and general background.
The author uses the Marseille deck, in fact he expresses a dislike of the RWS. The book has no reference to what I would consider "add-ons" to the tarot, such as astrological symbolism, or kabbalah, or hebrew letters, or any other such occult-fluff. Thankfully, there are also no fairies, dragons or dolphins, either.
The first half of the book contains good summaries of the ideas of Freud, Jung, Maslow and Kelly. The second half makes a solid attempt to relate the tarot to these ideas.
I find the card meanings (for the pips, they are based on suit and number symbolism) to be excellent, and far removed from your average RWS-clone meanings. I do not know whether his meanings differ at all from traditional Marseille meanings (I suspect that they're pretty close, from what I've read on this forum), but I would be interested to find out.
Does anyone else know this book? Any opinions as to its usefulness, especially from a Marseille point of view?
The author uses the Marseille deck, in fact he expresses a dislike of the RWS. The book has no reference to what I would consider "add-ons" to the tarot, such as astrological symbolism, or kabbalah, or hebrew letters, or any other such occult-fluff. Thankfully, there are also no fairies, dragons or dolphins, either.
The first half of the book contains good summaries of the ideas of Freud, Jung, Maslow and Kelly. The second half makes a solid attempt to relate the tarot to these ideas.
I find the card meanings (for the pips, they are based on suit and number symbolism) to be excellent, and far removed from your average RWS-clone meanings. I do not know whether his meanings differ at all from traditional Marseille meanings (I suspect that they're pretty close, from what I've read on this forum), but I would be interested to find out.
Does anyone else know this book? Any opinions as to its usefulness, especially from a Marseille point of view?