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65 - July 2008
Whither Directing Your Course?

Tarot has seen changes over the past 500 years... Jean-Michel David here looks at its possible easterly move in the future.
(PDF edition approx. 655KB)


 

64 - June 2008
A House of Tarot Cards

Craig Conley opens our eyes to the visual treasures around the Welsh coastal village of Portmeirion.
(PDF edition approx. 662KB)


 

63 - May 2008
On the Tarot of the Four Worlds

Mary Greer presents the Golden Dawn's approach to the Minor Arcana through the previously unpublished writings of Brodie Innes.
(PDF edition approx. 550KB)


 

62 - April 2008
Book Review: The Lo Scarabeo Story

E.C. celebrates Lo Scarabeo's 20th anniversary and reviews 1987-2007 - Twenty Years of Tarot: the Lo Scarabeo Story.
(PDF edition approx. 642KB)


 

61 - March 2008
Whispering to the Eye

Enrique Enriquez considers the deceptive simplicity within the Marseille Tarot, introducing us to its optical language.
(PDF edition approx. 621KB)


 

60 - February 2008
Perceptions of Spirituality

Lisa Larson reflects and muses on the New Age, tarot, and religion.
(PDF edition approx. 579KB)


 

59 - January 2008
Hebrew-Atouts Correlations & the Tree of Life
...a personal perspective

being an outline of Jean-Michel David's preferred correlation.
(PDF edition approx. 637KB)


 

58 - December 2007
The Boiardo Poem (15th century)

The Boiardo poem is one of the oldest references to a deck with 22 trumps. Here is presented the translation worked on by a number of people as it appears on Tarotpedia.com.


 

57 - November 2007
Journeys in Tarot Creation

Lee Bursten recounts his journeys into creations for the Gay Tarot, Tarot of Dreams, Universal Marseilles and the Zodiac Tarot.


 

56 - October 2007
Inquiries into Tarot
& on divination by means of tarot cards (Pt 1)

Le Comte de Mellet's first part of his 1781 essay, focussing on the trumps, is here presented in translation.


 

55 - September 2007
Ovid, Egypt, Hebrew and Tarot

In preparation for a future Newsletter presenting le Comte de Mellet's 1781 essay, Jean-Michel David digresses into its relative importance.


 

54 - August 2007
The International Tarot Award

Jean-Michel David gives us an overview of the Award's development and design, and this year's outstanding winner: Mary Greer.


 

53 - July 2007
Jean Noblet: J-C Flornoy's restored 1650 tarot deck

Robert Mealing brings to life this deck, one of the earliest and most extant tarot deck freely and with the splendor it deserves.


 

52 - June 2007
Kabbalistic Tarot: Hebraic Wisdom in the Major and Minor Arcana

...being an introduction to the ancient kabbalistic origins and meanings of the tarot: a book and some introductory comments by Dovid Krafchow.


 

51 - May 2007
When the Devil is not the Devil

Jean-Michel David travels east in search of iconographic similarities.


 

50 - April 2007
Beginner's Eyes: Looking at the Jacques Vieville

Debra Rosenthal opens this early deck to the wonders and joys of a first discovery.


 

49 - March 2007
Egypt, Tarot and Mystery School Initiations

Mary Greer talks of her previous and forthcoming wonderful adventures into Egypt, the journeys including initiations and the usage of tarot.


 

48 - February 2007
The four elements and the suits of the tarot

Jean-Michel David reflects on the four elements, their origin, and the connections to the suits people have suggested.


 

47 - January 2007
The Square and Compasses Tarot

Colin Browne, creator of this tarot deck based on Freemasonry's traditions, shares with us some of the thoughts that influenced the deck's creation.


 

46 - December 2006
Working with Children and tarot

Roxanne Flornoy shares some of her experiences working with children within the French education system on tarot as cultural inheritence.


 

45 - November 2006
Parlour Tricks

Alissa Hall invites us on an experiential journey...


 

44 - October 2006
Hunting the "true" Marseille Tarot

Robert Mealing takes us along on a hunt to find the origins of the Marseille Tarot


 

43 - September 2006
As Time Goes By - The Tarot Lovers' Calendar

Major Tom Schick reflects on the creation and development of the calendar as the fifth year is about to be released


 

42 - August 2006
Tarot History - an outline

An extract from the Association for Tarot Studies' Tarotpedia - the Online Encyclopedia of Tarot


 

41 - July 2006
The Court Cards as Personalities

Jean -Michel David presents his views on a manner in which the Court Cards of the Tarot may be correlated with the Myers -Briggs Typology


 

40 - June 2006
Of Mice, Monkeys and Men

Sophie Nusslé further delights readers with her own description on writing the book to the Fantastic Menagerie Tarot


 

39 - May 2006
On certification, the codification of ethics, and reading Tarot

Jean -Michel David critically addresses certification and codes of ethics in relation to tarot readings


 

38 - April 2006
The Fool, Alef and Orion

Stephen John Mangan (kwaw) offers his insights into their possible connection


 

37 - March 2006
Orphalese Tarot - PC Software Review

Linda Atkinson describes this software's growing excellence


 

36 - February 2006
What is the function of the Tarot reading?

Short descriptions from thirty people!


 

35 - January 2006
The Tarot and the Kabbalah, the Ancient Mesopotamians and the Sufist

an extract from the newly released book Mirror of the Free by Nicholas Swift


 

34 - December 2005
Memorization VS. Instinct

Stephanie Arwen Beck discusses learning to trust your own inner voice


 

33 - November 2005
The Blank Spot Revisited

Dan Pelletier looks at an important aspect in reading Tarot


 

32 - August 2005
A closer look at one of the Marseille decks

the Jean Dodal c. 1701, Lyon by Jean -Michel David


 

31 - July 2005
Expected FAQs for this month's International Tarot Conference

Expected 'Frequently Asked Questions' answered...


 

30 - June 2005
From an oral tradition to the Tarot as history...

French original and translation by Jean -Claude and Roxanne Flornoy


 

29 - May 2005
2005 Tarot Conference Update

Updated information about Presenters and Workshops



 

28 - April 2005
The Golden Dawn's attributions...

Jean -Michel David explores the Golden Dawn's "Tree of Life" correlations



 

26/27 - February/March 2005
Prague — ways of looking

A special double -issue feature by Karen Mahony



 

25 - January 2005
Thinking out loud about tarot history

Ross G. Caldwell shares some thoughts



 

24 - December 2004
The Mysterious "Cary Sheet"

Robert Mealing invites you to explore the "Cary Sheet", an uncut sheet of Tarot cards dated to the early 1500's



 

23 - November 2004
The Tarot

 From www.krishadar.com - Tarology section



 

22 - October 2004
Kabalah and Tarot - an introductory overview

 Jean -Michel David presents an overview and some original considerations



 

21 - September 2004
Workshop outlines for the 2005 International Tarot Conference

Online Conference Workshops descriptions from the 2005 International Conference



 

20 - August 2004
A thought on the Cardinal Virtues in the Tarot Cards, featuring the Bible of Notger

Eguchi Koretaka discusses the virtues and an ivory carving on a 10th century northern European Bible cover



 

19 - July 2004
Extracts from Bob O'Neill's Tarot Symbolism, [currently being updated]

Some brief extracts and announcement of imminent reprinting of this important book



 

18 - June 2004
Review of Bob O'Neill's Tarot Symbolism

Michael Hurst critically appraises and reviews Robert O'Neill's book



 

17 - May 2004
Great Symbols of the Tarot' by AE Waite

A reprint of a little known classic essay from Waite



 

16 - April 2004
Review of Kat Black's Golden Tarot deck

Jean -Michel David's critical review at the release of this deck



 

15 - March 2004
Projective Geometry and the Crowley -Harris Thoth deck

Claas Hoffmann recalls an interview with Olive Whicher & looks at connections connections to Steiner



 

14 - February 2004
Discovering Tarot in Literature - a bibliography

Nina Lee Braden's amazing list of literary books which incorporate tarot in some way



 

13 - January 2004
A Year's Spread

2004 in (pre -)view: Jean -Michel David gives an example



 

12 - December 2003
What is Tarot?

Short descriptions from forty people!



 

11 - November 2003
Iraqi Museum pieces and Tarot

Jean -Michel David looks at similarities between ivory carvings and tarot imagery - and highlights some lost treasures



 

10 - October 2003
Association for Tarot Studies

Includes details about membership to the Association for Tarot Studies.

As this is periodically updated, the link is to the current active page, rather than to the original Newsletter content.



 

9 - September 2003
The Tarot of Prague Review

Nellie Levine reviews Karen Mahony and Alex Ukolov's new deck.



 

8 - August 2003
Camoin -Jodorowsky's and Hadar's Marseille Tarot

Jean -Michel David briefly reviews these two modern renditions of tarot's classic deck



 

7 - July 2003
The Renaissance and the Birth of the Tarot

David Brice introduces important considerations



 

6 - June 2003
Iconology of the Tower Cards

One of Robert O'Neill's key essay



 

5 - June 2003
Meditations on the Tarot: a journey into Christian Hermeticism

Jean -Michel David reviews this classic text on the eve of its re-print



 

4 - March/April 2003
Lexicon Theory of Tarot Origin by M. Filipas

One of the most important theoretical contributions made in the last decade - an extract



 

3 - February 2003
The Bateleur’s Tale: A Tarot Story for Children

Diana Sobolewska's journey through the Atouts of the tarot



 

2 - January 2003
Review of the Tarot of the Master by Giovanni Vacchetta

Lee A. Bursten's review of this important 19th century deck as recoloured by Michela Gaudenzi



 

1 - December 2002
Interview with Rachel Pollack

A wonderful interview by Alex B. Crowther

 
     
 

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ATS Publications

Story of the Waite-Smith Tarot

Frank Jensen The Story of the Waite-Smith Tarot Deck

Frank Jensen has long been amongst the key players in presenting information on the development of this important deck in the history of Tarot. We now have the opportunity to read on this deck's history during its key phases during the past 100 years.

> Story of the Waite-Smith Tarot


Taros - the Journal for Tarot Studies

Taros - the Journal for Tarot Studies

Issue 1 • 2006 of Taros, the annual Journal for Tarot Studies, is now online.

> Taros


Tarot Symbolism

Tarot Symbolism by Robert O'Neill

The Association for Tarot Studies is delighted in being able to present Bob O’Neill’s important Tarot Symbolism.

> Tarot Symbolism


Tarotpedia

Tarotpedia

With already over 800 members and over 1000 pages of content, Tarotpedia is fast becoming one of the most developed online resource for tarot.

> Tarotpedia