Path: typhoon.sonic.net!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.tarot,alt.divination,alt.magick Subject: Re: Book for Tarot Divination References: From: nagasiva Reply-To: spam@luckymojo.com User-Agent: nn/6.6.0 Lines: 51 Message-ID: <6OAw9.45553$Ik.1084856@typhoon.sonic.net> Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 19:41:54 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.201.242.18 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sonic.net X-Trace: typhoon.sonic.net 1036179714 208.201.242.18 (Fri, 01 Nov 2002 11:41:54 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 11:41:54 PST Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick.tyagi:35070 alt.tarot:112298 alt.divination:20668 alt.magick:323175 50021101 VII om Winter's Day "Chris" : > I am looking for a general book on the Tarot for divination purposes. general books are usually historical or poorly-made. typically the artist or occultist assisting or informing the artist writes the book which accompanies the deck in a kind of divinatory tool-set. it is a kind of program whereby the occultist using the device will educate themselves as to the symbol-set depicted in the deck (this may be the basics from an entire ceremonial composition) and the concepts involved in any advanced work to which it leads. > I don't want a book for a specific deck, but rather one that has > the traditional meanings of the cards.... >...In the Golden Dawn by I.R. there are brief divinatory meanings >for each card. I would like something like this in its own book with some >expansion on the cards meaning in a reading, also some different spread >techniuques would be nice. >...has general card meanings the problem you pose is finding a text which is simultaneously not a book on the *history* of tarot imagery (therefore becoming more a catalogue than a divinatory tool) and which is recommendable as a divination source, but which is not the book accompanying the deck. there's only been a few books I remember like this and they were rather simple and in some cases mass-produced. one of the better was "The Tarot", by Richard Cavendish, and you could go to a history of tarot like Stuart Kaplan or Dummett or something at a library and photocopy their "interpretation" section (I thought Kaplan's was interesting, worth further examination) and use that without the details of history. Kenneth D. Newman wrote an entertaining text: "The Tarot: a Myth of Male Initiation" which could be used awkwardly for their general meanings, and there are some texts which reference Smith-Waite imagery but could be applied outside it for its general character, such as "The Sexual Key to the Tarot", by Theodor Laurence. >and different tarot spread.... a different matter. I have only seen a couple of modern books on tarot spreads, plus that file of tarot layouts recently discussed in alt.tarot (which later became one of the alt.magick tarot REFs). > like it to be fairly legit and in line with the symbolism of > the cards. meaningless where 'the cards' refers to just any deck. nagasiva