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Dame Fortune's Wheel Tarot

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Paul Huson's Dame Fortune's Wheel Tarot illustrates for the first time the earliest, traditional tarot card interpretations collected by Jean-Baptiste Alliette, aka Etteilla, a Parisian fortune-teller. Unlike other modern deck, the images are unadorned by the occult speculations of Mathers, Waite, or Crowley. This book is a pictorial companion to the deck. In addition to detailed descriptions of the cards' symbolism and significance-with both upright and reversed meanings-Dame Fortune's Wheel Tarot provides meticulous full-colour reproductions of Huson's original designs for all 79 cards, including an extra Significator card specified by Etteilla that may be used optionally, and full instructions for how to lay out the cards for divination. * Illustrates traditional tarot card interpretations unadorned by the occult speculations of Mathers, Waite, or Crowley. * Expounds on the meanings collected by Jean-Baptiste Alliette (aka Etteilla) * Provides meticulous full-color reproductions of Huson's original card designs, including an extra Significator card "Dame Fortunes Wheel Tarot is a rare example of a deck that throws light upon a much ignored part of tarot history whilst being exquisitely attractive and easily readable. Indeed it could be said that this is a significantly important tarot deck, it is a bold illustration of serious tarot scholarship...Every tarot reader, especially those who are exclusively familiar with the RWS, should at least look at these cards; both to see where tarot has come from and where it might have gone had things been different. In a sense it is an illustration of the fragility of that which we call tradition. The Etteilla minors, once the corner stone of tarot divination and still popular in Europe, " Review of the author's tarot deck on Aeclectic Tarot

Author Biography:

Paul Huson, a London-born author and artist, was initially trained in the Western Esoteric Tradition by Dion Fortune's Society of the Inner Light and later studied the doctrines of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and Stella Matutina under the aegis of Israel Regardie. He is the author of a number of well-known books on occult and allied subjects.
Release date NZ
November 8th, 2017
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Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Pages
200
Dimensions
127x178x10
ISBN-13
9781881098423
Product ID
26748751

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