I’m trying to assemble a list of essential reading for the three major tarot traditions. This is what I have far. Let me know what you guys think and if you have any recommendations.
Marseille: >Tarot of the Bohemians by Papus >Tarot of the Magicians by Oswald Wirth >The Way of Tarot by Alejandro Jodorowsky >The Marseille Tarot by Yoav Ben-Dov
Rider-Waite-Smith: >Pictoral Key to the Tarot by A E Waite >The Tarot by Paul Foster Case >The Qabalistic Tarot by Robert Wang
Thoth: >The Book of Thoth by Aleister Crowley >Understanding Aleister Crowley’s Thoth Tarot by Lon Milo Duquette
Waite's book is next to useless. It's vague, disorganised, and dismissive of "fortune telling".
Instead I'd consult "Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom" by Rachel Pollack. She may be a feminist c**t, but she draws on a wide range of cultural influences to elucidate the tarot.
Apart from that, it's a good list. Just be aware that the tarot has always been a canvas for people's projections. Adopting theirs will inhibit the development of your own.
If you use the tarot for divination, it will speak to you in a way you understand. It helps to have done a lot of background reading, but only as a means to broaden your own method of interpretation.
Women literally interpret the tarot using just the images, and have no clue about the numerological, qabalistic, alchemical or astrological attributions.
Women suck at tarot readings.
both thoth and rider tarot were cobbled together by new age spiritualists looking through encyclopedias for “cool ideas” from the past. and they were painted by women. It’s aids.
>>>/x/
But from a IQfy point of view does understanding this shit offer any deeper insight for reading? I've been looking through it but it looks moronic.
>shits on the defilement of any possible human dignity
seems only right.
Women literally interpret the tarot using just the images, and have no clue about the numerological, qabalistic, alchemical or astrological attributions.
Women suck at tarot readings.
>author is Christian esoteric from Estonia, which was re-invaded by the Soviets after brief independence from Russian Empire >bitches about Russian Empire 2.0: church-burning, priest-murdering, israeli apocalypse edition >complains about Bolshevism
Welcome to East and Central Europe, where people are sometimes slightly suspicious or annoyed by Russians and particularly Bolsheviks (atheistic israelite-Russians)
Id rather consult the universal randomness of the I Ching. Each fortune is part of a solution depending on how you interpret the passage.
I've been using the Wilhelm Reich translation currently. Has only made good decisions for me so far
There are only 65,536 possible permutations of the I Ching. The expressivity of the tarot is effectively unlimited, especially since you can choose your own spread.
Of course your interpretation skills need to be good enough, which is often the sticking point.
wanna know something weird? When i read the section on judgment in this book , this was years ago, there was a part where it mentions how no action big or small is insignificant in the book of life, or something to that effect.
I had very rarely cried throughout the last few years, and in that year alone it had only happened once after a dry streak of 3 years, but when I read that chapter I burst into tears. I'm still not sure why.
I tried reading this thinking it'd be an interesting look into the history and meanings behind the Tarot cards (no into occult shit just thought to get educated). I got through 3 cards and it has literally nothing to do with tarot, just a generic christcuck apologiaslop mixed with numerology and self-help.
I’m trying to assemble a list of essential reading for the three major tarot traditions. This is what I have far. Let me know what you guys think and if you have any recommendations.
Marseille:
>Tarot of the Bohemians by Papus
>Tarot of the Magicians by Oswald Wirth
>The Way of Tarot by Alejandro Jodorowsky
>The Marseille Tarot by Yoav Ben-Dov
Rider-Waite-Smith:
>Pictoral Key to the Tarot by A E Waite
>The Tarot by Paul Foster Case
>The Qabalistic Tarot by Robert Wang
Thoth:
>The Book of Thoth by Aleister Crowley
>Understanding Aleister Crowley’s Thoth Tarot by Lon Milo Duquette
>This is what I have far.
***I meant to say “this is what I have so far.”
Waite's book is next to useless. It's vague, disorganised, and dismissive of "fortune telling".
Instead I'd consult "Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom" by Rachel Pollack. She may be a feminist c**t, but she draws on a wide range of cultural influences to elucidate the tarot.
Apart from that, it's a good list. Just be aware that the tarot has always been a canvas for people's projections. Adopting theirs will inhibit the development of your own.
If you use the tarot for divination, it will speak to you in a way you understand. It helps to have done a lot of background reading, but only as a means to broaden your own method of interpretation.
Women literally interpret the tarot using just the images, and have no clue about the numerological, qabalistic, alchemical or astrological attributions.
Women suck at tarot readings.
both thoth and rider tarot were cobbled together by new age spiritualists looking through encyclopedias for “cool ideas” from the past. and they were painted by women. It’s aids.
There's a great amateur audiobook reading of OP on Youtube, if anyone is interested.
link?
>>>/x/
But from a IQfy point of view does understanding this shit offer any deeper insight for reading? I've been looking through it but it looks moronic.
It's basically Christian Kabbalah/Hermeticism a la Ficino etc. If you like that you will like this book.
>bitches about bolshevism in the first chapter
Literally the moment I put it down
Filtered, and rightfully so.
>shits on the defilement of any possible human dignity
seems only right.
lol.
>literally even brings up astrology
lmao.
>author is Christian esoteric from Estonia, which was re-invaded by the Soviets after brief independence from Russian Empire
>bitches about Russian Empire 2.0: church-burning, priest-murdering, israeli apocalypse edition
>complains about Bolshevism
Welcome to East and Central Europe, where people are sometimes slightly suspicious or annoyed by Russians and particularly Bolsheviks (atheistic israelite-Russians)
we discuss *book about tarot
what would Kant think about the Tarot bros?
good question. idk.
Not much.
too passing and iconographical for serious introspection except as a particular artistic framing method.
Id rather consult the universal randomness of the I Ching. Each fortune is part of a solution depending on how you interpret the passage.
I've been using the Wilhelm Reich translation currently. Has only made good decisions for me so far
There are only 65,536 possible permutations of the I Ching. The expressivity of the tarot is effectively unlimited, especially since you can choose your own spread.
Of course your interpretation skills need to be good enough, which is often the sticking point.
wanna know something weird? When i read the section on judgment in this book , this was years ago, there was a part where it mentions how no action big or small is insignificant in the book of life, or something to that effect.
I had very rarely cried throughout the last few years, and in that year alone it had only happened once after a dry streak of 3 years, but when I read that chapter I burst into tears. I'm still not sure why.
Just play Königrufen and Dreiertarock
>tarot cards
Evola is way better.
Evola played tarot?
weird conspiracy book thread in /misc/
seems appropriate here
I really want to read this, but it seems quite advanced, what are the prerequisites?
Where can I learn how to play tarot the card game?
I tried reading this thinking it'd be an interesting look into the history and meanings behind the Tarot cards (no into occult shit just thought to get educated). I got through 3 cards and it has literally nothing to do with tarot, just a generic christcuck apologiaslop mixed with numerology and self-help.
Filtered, unironically.