I Am One

Patrick Booker

This is from K. Frank Jensen's website:

http://www.manteia-online.dk/deckreviews/dr085.htm

My copy of 'T: The New Tarot' is the 4th Printing from 1970. There is an instruction leaflet plus two small books - quite impressive. Rosalind Sharpe and Rosalind Russel are presumably the same person. I bought my deck direct from Maya Britan, and my curiosity led me to try and trace information about Rosalind Sharpe online (I did not know that she was also known as Rosalind Russel). I found references to a writer of that name, but no indication that it was the same person. I seem to remember that I exchanged a couple of emails with Maya Britan about my results from using the deck.

Like Gregory, I like Maya's deck, even if sceptical about the explanation and background story.

Patrick
 

gregory

This is from K. Frank Jensen's website:

http://www.manteia-online.dk/deckreviews/dr085.htm

My copy of 'T: The New Tarot' is the 4th Printing from 1970. There is an instruction leaflet plus two small books - quite impressive. Rosalind Sharpe and Rosalind Russel are presumably the same person. I bought my deck direct from Maya Britan, and my curiosity led me to try and trace information about Rosalind Sharpe online (I did not know that she was also known as Rosalind Russel). I found references to a writer of that name, but no indication that it was the same person.

I will dig out Communify in the morning and see if there is anything useful to help you in your search.

Oh my - that review is funny. ;) I do enjoy Frank !
 

Patrick Booker

Thanks, Gregory.

Somewhere, I have either read or heard an interview with Maya Britan where she describes their meeting. Apparently she was a sharp little old lady (no pun intended), eager to pass on her blessings for the project before she died. I think that this story got dropped later.

Patrick
 

gregory

Thanks, Gregory.

Somewhere, I have either read or heard an interview with Maya Britan where she describes their meeting. Apparently she was a sharp little old lady (no pun intended), eager to pass on her blessings for the project before she died. I think that this story got dropped later.

Patrick

Reading Frank's site, I think the letters I have are from John's sister, Alice Cooke Kent, rather than his wife... but - as I say - tomorrow.
 

gregory

I didn't say when the letters were dated. (In fact they aren't, but the seller reckons it was around 1979, and I have every reason to believe him, as the proofs - which is what I now have were sent to him, as a regular buyer of such things and are dated 1979. John had died in 1976, and there is an obituary on the first page of the book. It also says there that one of the three decks in the game was "drawn from his wife's dreams".)

It was addressed from T: THE NEW TAROT, in Kenfield CA. And the letter starts:
"Enclosed is a copy of the proofs for a new tarot game called Communify. This small first edition was printed by us for sale in order to comply with copyright and trademark regulations, and to show to game companies in hopes that one of them will pick it up to publish..."

and towards the end...
"John Cooke's cards "The New Tarot of the Aquarian Age" will also not be reprinted unless someone comes along who cares to keep it going, I am tired of the business end."

and is signed by Alice C. Kent. She did pull together his Word of One published by Catalyst in 1992, which uses the decks form Communify, but with T in colour.
 

Patrick Booker

I have just acquired 'The Word of One Tarot' with three decks together, recently made available:

http://www.royalmaze.com/

http://www.royalmaze.com/john-starr-cooke/

http://www.wordofonetarot.com/

http://www.etsy.com/listing/155636389/word-of-one-tarot-deck-set-t-the-new

I thought I had seen a thread about this before, but I could not find it.

Robbed again by Customs, but arrived in UK quickly.

Anyone wanting to explore John Starr Cooke's system might find the booklets enclosed with the earlier 'T: The New Tarot' also helpful.

Patrick