The elephant in the room is "Why care?" Tarot history might be just a wacky hobby. Unless it throws light on something important, or deep, it's just a pastime no better or dumber than any other. If Huck sees tarot as a particularly interesting type of game, and the history of tarot and oth...
Ah, ok Jim, I see what you're driving at. I think that if you want to establish that "iconographic traces of [the historical] virtue ethic are being misconstrued as hermetic or archetypical by contemporary occultists" you should begin with the writings and presentations by contemporary occ...
Jim, I want to pick up on this idea. Most tarot fortune tellers find the actual history of the tarot uncongenial, so they make up framing myths for their activities. I do not believe this is true. There are "frames" for fortune-telling, but it seems to me that most of them have nothing to ...
No information on the listing. The jaunty turbans caught my eye. You're right, it is a dog--I had monkey on my mind. Although I see the old man being groomed by the fellow standing to his right...
Well but Lorredan, what about the hanged men with coins falling out of their pockets? Meaning they have some money--so not being able to pay the bride price, hm. Honestly this seems a more complex take on the Hanged Man than necessary...