Emeraldgirl
Tarot Classic by Stuart Kaplan. I don't get it i love his encyclopeadias but couldn't stand the book. Not sure if it was supposed to come with a deck but it just didn't do anything for me.
Alrana ERIS said:I'm new to the board i'm alrana Eris I have been reading tarot since i was 15(a calling of sorts) the worst book and all may not agree "everyday tarot magic by dorothy morrison."she wants you to destroy your cards. hey if that's your thing all power to you.she wants me to copy my deck at kinkos mind you. and then tear them up, put magic marker to deface them, flush them down the toilet.(hey that is what she sugggests) I found this book very destructive to tarot cards, and if you spend all this money on a nice deck why would you destroy them. maybe I have my bug up my butt, but mutliate and destory cards, some may disagree but, don't read this book.
bright blessings, alrana eris
rachelcat said:Hey, mythos! The feel I got from Gad's Tarot and Individuation (first edition, years ago . . .) was that she was saying every card meant everything. For each card, there is a discussion about "the eternal feminine" or something. If each card means EVERYTHING, then it really it means nothing! But then I've learned alot since I read it closely, so maybe I need to do another reading, like you suggest for yourself.
I'm getting the same feeling from Paul Foster Case's An Introduction to the Study of Tarot. So far, about half way through, each major card is correlated to both the corresponding sephiroth (by number) AND path (by Hebrew letter) AND a letter in the Tetragrammaton AND its regular Golden Dawn astrological attribution AND (for some) various geometrical shapes suggested by the figures on the cards AND/OR the numbers assigned! Whew! Oh, and various characters on the cards are identified with various characters on OTHER cards!
I start thinking that when each card is connected with TWO OR THREE different numbers and letters, they might was well not have any . . .
But then complex numerology and gematria always make me a bit giddy . . .