Tarot Zones

“Which deck should I start with?” A question frequently asked, and one too quickly answered with the response “Rider-Waite.” This traditional deck, illustrated by Pamela Coleman-Smith, is the one most recommended because it’s considered by many to be “the standard.”

OPINIONS of authorities differ widely concerning the origin of playing cards, the purpose for which they were intended, and the time of their introduction into Europe. In his Researches into the History of Playing Cards, Samuel Weller Singer advances the opinion that cards reached Southern Europe from India by way of Arabia….

The work below was sent to me by an anonymous contributor. From what I was told it is an excerpt from a much larger piece of work by P. D. Ouspensky that was published in the early part of the 20th Century.
Apparently Ouspensky rearranged the cards of the Major Arcana and then gave his imagination [...]

When we think of the tarot or other oracles, we usually think of them as providing insight and information about what is going on in our external world—the world of action and reaction. But these same symbols can act as communication between many realms—inner, outer, spirit, faery, angelic, and “dreamtime” (the realm of myth and [...]

Many people have tried to work out correspondences between astrology and the tarot—and then someone else comes along, disagrees with them, and works out a new scheme, which also has its advantages and its drawbacks. Jessica and Nancy believe that the court cards can sensibly be assigned zodiac connections, but not the rest of the [...]