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Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archive by Laetitia Barbier
Turning the pages of this book is like wandering the corridors of an enchanted castle where the walls are lined with over-sized images of tarot and fortune-telling cards, art from previous centuries,...
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A Fiorentine Minchiate Restored by Marco Benedetti
Announcing a Fiorentine Minchiate deck produced by Marco Cesare Benedetti of Rome, Italy. The strong lines, rich colors and expressive faces make this limited edition deck very readable. Before I get...
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Reading Minchiate Cards with Brian Williams
This is turning out to be Minchiate Month! Marco Benedetti just published a restored and recolored Fiorentine Minchiate which I reviewed here last week. A few recent videos feature this deck. Links to...
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Gerard Bodet Tarot Restored by Sullivan Hismans
The Gerard Bodet Tarot restored by Sullivan Hismans (Tarot Sheet Revival) may be the oldest complete Rouen-Brussels deck we have. Around the year 1500, tarot migrated from Italy to France and entered...
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Tarocco Bolognese Dalla Tore with Rivoltini
For over four centuries, every Italian playing card was handcrafted with rivoltini borders. These are created by gluing backing paper onto the card, folding the four sides over to the front, then...
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Journey Through the Trump Cards
Announcing the completion of “Journey Through the Trumps,” a section of this website that traces the 600-year history of each trump card. During this three-year adventure with my co-author Iolon, we...
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Celebrating the Tarot de Marseille Type I
Tarot de Marseille Type I is having its moment in the sun, thanks to several card makers who are recreating these rare decks from museum originals. As far as I know, there are only nine complete, or...
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The Happiest Tarot Decks
I want start 2024 by showing off the happiest tarot decks in my collection. Let’s face it, some of the people in our pre-20th century decks can be rather grumpy, if not downright mean looking. I must...
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I Tarocchi del Mitelli by Marco Benedetti
Today I’m celebrating the artistry of Giuseppe Maria Mitelli along with Marco Benedetti’s luxurious new edition of Mitelli’s tarocchino. I’ll begin by describing Benedetti’s deck; then, I’ll give some...
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Etteilla: The First Modern Card Reader and His Reconstructed Decks by Marco...
Let’s celebrate Etteilla, the eighteenth-century cartomancer who laid the groundwork for our contemporary tarot reading practices. After writing numerous books on divination, seeing clients, running a...
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Loving Pierre Madenié
Hundreds of decks have passed through my hands during my fifty years with tarot; and I’ve been reading with a few that I really love for decades. But I never became instantly infatuated with a deck...
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A Yes-No-Maybe Tarot Technique
I generally use tarot for diving into the murky depths of my psyche. But sometimes I just want to be told what to do! I’ve tried various Yes/No spreads with dismal results, so I just gave up on the...
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Marco Benedetti’s Personal Madrone Deck
Marco Benedetti’s restored Visconti di Modrone deck is a magic carpet ride to a late medieval world of elegant lords and ladies and knights in shining armor. A world where fabulously wealthy...
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Vachier: The Oldest Documented Tarot de Marseille
A flurry of excitement rippled through the tarot world in early 2023 when a previously unknown Tarot de Marseille, dated 1639, was auctioned in Paris. This very special deck is the earliest documented...
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