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The Bones You Have Cast Down – A Novel by Jean Huets
Hop on a magic carpet and let Jean Huets fly you back to 1447, when a war between Milan and Venice had northern Italy in turmoil, the Sforzas were still a few years away from ruling Milan, and tarot...
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J-P Payen and the Tarot de Marseille Type I
Yves Reynaud has produced facsimiles of historically important decks like the Madenié, Burdel and Conver. Now he’s done it again with a recreation of the 1713 Jean-Pierre Payen Tarot, one of the few...
View ArticleDownsizing & Moving – 100 Tarot Decks and Books $5 Each
Here’s a list of 100 tarot decks and books I’m offering to friends and colleagues who follow my blog and hang out with me on facebook. Every deck and book is $5 plus priority shipping. Deck/Book sets...
View ArticleTarotforum RIP
Waves of shock and grief are rolling through a large segment of the tarot community in reaction to the announcement that www.tarotforum.net will be shut down as of July 14, 2017. Since 2002,...
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Il Meneghello’s Little White Sheet
Has anyone read the folded sheet of paper that comes with every Il Meneghello deck? Recently I became curious enough to dust off my Italian dictionary and read it carefully. Osvaldo Menegazzi, the...
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Tarot Picture Books
Once there was a time when lovers of tarot seeking to look at beautiful cards had to (gasp!!) purchase a book! In that long-ago time (say, 1976) there was no Google, no wikis, no surfing nor clicking....
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Tarocchi Lando produced by Giordano Berti
Another historically important Piedmontese deck produced by Giordano Berti just arrived in my mailbox. Like Berti’s other productions, this deck is housed in a sturdy handmade box lined with felt and...
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Two Sixteenth Century Essays on the Meaning of Tarot Cards
Around the year 1565, two men on opposite sides of northern Italy wrote down their thoughts about the moral lessons in the tarocchi deck. In the 1980s, both essays were discovered by playing card...
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Marshmallow Marseille
This deck is an 18th-century Tarot de Marseille redrawn with a contemporary folk art flavor. The lacy vegetation on the pips and the bright pastel colors like aqua, violet and peach give the deck a...
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The Cartomancer Magazine – Summer 2018
Another beautiful edition of The Cartomancer just arrived in my mailbox. With a new owner, Arwen Lynch, the magazine has become even more eclectic. This issue contains thoughts on shadow work with...
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The Vandenborre Deck Restored by Pablo Robledo
I am very excited about this fresh new version of the 1762 Vandenborre deck published this month by the Argentinian tarot maker Pablo Robledo. This Brussels-Rouen pattern deck is first cousin to the...
View ArticleDivinatory Meanings for the Tarot de Marseille
At the bottom of an old carton, I recently found a file folder stuffed with divinatory meanings (DMs) for the Tarot de Marseille (TdM) pip cards. When I began reading with historic decks about 20 years...
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Three Vandenborre Decks
My 1983 Vandenborre deck by Carta Mundi has been sitting unused on a shelf for a few decades. After falling in love with Pablo Robledo’s recent production of the deck, and discovering a third version...
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I Tarocchi di Valentina Visconti per il Palio d’Asti
Acquiring this hard-to-find deck inspired me to get acquainted with Valentina Visconti and learn about the chapter of her life depicted in these cards. In 1389, Valentina set out in a magnificent...
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Untold Tarot by Caitlín Matthews – Book Review
This book is destined to become a classic, along with books on the same topic by the likes of Jodorowsky and Ben Dov (to whom the book is dedicated). Three kinds of people need this book: People who...
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Golden Decks of the Fifteenth Century: The Visconti di Modrone and...
Nearly two decades ago, Il Meneghello of Milan gave us the best facsimile available of the 1450 Visconti-Sforza deck. Now they’ve outdone themselves by producing facsimiles of the two earliest...
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The Budapest Tarot Recreated by Sullivan Hismans
In the 1440s, you could go to the store and buy a pack of cards for playing the popular new game of Trionfi. What did those cards look like? Did they resemble our familiar tarot cards? We can’t be sure...
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Tarot Hes 1750
When we think of historic tarot decks, the French Tarot de Marseille and early Italian decks quickly come to mind. But I’m ashamed to say that in my nearly twenty years of deck collecting it never...
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Tarot des Aux Arcs
The deck’s name had me puzzled for a while. It looks French but makes no sense in that language. Then I checked out the creator’s website — Aux Arcs in French is pronounced Ozark, the mountains where...
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Tarocchi di Besançon Miller 1780
When we think of the Tarot de Marseille (TdM), France usually comes to mind. But the game of tarot was played throughout Europe, with locally printed decks that had their own unique touches. Giordano...
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