Hello Robert and Dear Comrades ... Surely Charles VI Deck is very beautifull and I allways keep it on my mind each time I "have a walk" at the Mr. Michael Hurst site. With regard to the Fool card and his donkey ears I only found one similar example on Vieville deck. I think it was pretty ...

I think this card is one of the most important pieces of tarot history. I wrote this comment about it for the ATS Newsletter: In The Encyclopedia of Tarot, Volume II, by Stuart Kaplan, there are pictures of several of the 58 cards and fragments discovered at the turn of the 20th century at Sforza Ca...

It's interesting that the Chariot in the Jacques Vieville is different than the one in the Beligian Tarot. Most of the cards in the Belgian are directly related to the Vieville, but in this case, the Vieville chooses to match the Marseille Tarot model. Here's the Chariot from the Jacques Vievile, th...

http://www.tarothistory.com/compare/images/vandenborre/vandenborre_07.jpg This is the Chariot from the Vandenborre Bacchus Tarot , a Belgian Tarot. It's interesting to see the similarity in this design to the ones in the cards above; but not totally surprising. The Belgian tarot has an obvious rela...

Here's the Chariot from Giuseppe Maria Mitelli's Tarocchino from around 1660 (modern coloration). http://www.tarothistory.com/compare/images/mitelli/07.jpg Our Charioteer has certainly come a long way in 200 hundred years! Va va voom! I suppose this is Venus? I don't know anything about this next im...

I like Michael's ideas a lot too, and his writings have really helped convince me that my theories about the Tarot being a message from a enlightened extraterrestrial race warning us of Earth's eminent future invasion by a race of time travelling female warrior vampire aliens who intend to kill all...

Hello all, To respond to all and more specifficly to Robert ;) : Hypothèse of Clouds added to exprim same meaning in place other drawings, could be ok if... there is no hidden structure in Tarot decks. Some are searching in this direction. We all have to wait and see and I am like you on this point...

I find Le Pendu's query perfectly acceptable- Tarot does look oddly strange in context of time and place- yet familiar if you were raised Catholic. Not everyone takes the Da Vinchi Code as anything other than a good rollicking read with a theme. I too have been on a long campaign to make Tarot acce...

Michael, Michael, Michael. :D You know, I love your posts. Even your post questioning my posts(!), I took as a well meaning "call" for me to be more "sensible", and I appreciate the time you take to give such thoughtful responses. I expect, and appreciate, that I can count on you...

What she holds is a jousting shield, reminiscent also of the Empress. As the the bird-like emblem, I wonder if it is intended indeed something similar to the Empress's. I don't see a shield... If it were a shield, why would she hold it from the bottom like that? Why would it have a dove on it? I do...