Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination by Robert Place
Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination Robert Place ebook
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
ISBN: 9781585423491
Format: pdf
Page: 336
If you are primarily interested in using tarot for divination and meditation, but less concerned with tarot history and in depth symbols, then you will also find many modern decks of interest. When speaking of tarot's history it is important to keep in mind two things: first, the exoteric and the esoteric history of tarot; second, the history of the term 'tarot', and the history of a pack of cards called tarot. I've read some book on the history of tarot [mainly egyptian in reference] but I decided in the end to go with a deck based on subconcious intuition. History tells us that a scholar named Marziano da Torona, who was secretary to the Duke of Milan, may have invented the Tarot If so, why doesn't the book that accompanied the deck refer to the divination of the cards? Place writes; "The Fool looks away from the Sun. I agree with the first answer that the Rider-Waite deck is often recommended for a first deck. This entry was posted in Tarot, Tarot History, Tarot Professionals. Exoteric history deals with the actual information that has preserved down to us from the past; . I got this book called “The Tarot: History, Symbolism and Divination” by Robert M. Place's book The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination was the first tarot book I ever read. The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination actually has a chapter devoted to each. Place, Robert M.: “The Tarot – History, Symbolism, and Divination”, 2005. From Robert place's EXCELLENT book "The Tarot; History, Symbolism and Divination" - here's the crux. Place stand out from other Tarot writers, first and foremost, in that he can distinguish between myth and history. The symbolism of the trumps can be found in the European art of the time, with some drawings being exactly the likeness of those found on Tarot cards. Find out more about History Of Tarot at Tarot. Place (used copy on amazon.com).