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According to Waite's 1910 book The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, The Empress is the inferior (as opposed to nature's superior) Garden of Eden, the "Earthly Paradise".Waite defines her as a Refugium Peccatorum — a fruitful mother of thousands: "she is above all things universal fecundity and the outer sense of the Word, the repository of all things nurturing and sustaining, and of feeding others."
Gray's books were adopted by members of the 1960s counter-culture as standard reference works on divinatory use of tarot cards, [83] and her 1970 book A Complete Guide to the Tarot was the first work to use the metaphor of the "Fool's Journey" to explain the meanings of the major arcana. [84] [85]
Page of Swords from the Rider–Waite tarot deck. The Page of Swords (or jack or knave of swords) is a card used in Latin-suited playing cards which include tarot decks. It is part of what tarot card readers call the "Minor Arcana" Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play tarot card games. [1]
The Book of Thoth: A Short Essay on the Tarot of the Egyptians. Illustrated by Lady Frieda Harris (reprint ed.). New York: Samuel Weiser. Daynes, Daniel (2000). Le Tarot, ses règles et toutes ses variantes. Bornemann. ISBN 978-2-85182-622-0. Decker, Ronald; Depaulis, Thierry; Dummett, Micheal (1996). A Wicked Pack of Cards. London: Duckworth.
It represents a synthesis of various esoteric traditions, integrating the symbolic language of the Tarot with the principles of Thelema. [19] In Tarot, "Abrahadabra" is associated with five cards in the Major Arcana: The Fool (A), The Magician (B), The Sun (R), The Hierophant (H), and The Empress (D). [9] The word as a whole is represented by ...
Thoth Tarot is an esoteric tarot deck painted by Lady Frieda Harris according to instructions from Aleister Crowley. Crowley referred to this deck as The Book of Thoth , and also wrote a 1944 book of that title intended for use with the deck.
Salvador Dali's Tarot is a book about the 78 paintings used for Salvador Dalí's deck of Tarot playing cards, published for him in 1984 by the card-printer Naipes Comas of Spain. [1] The book features each painting reproduced in color on its own page.
Six of Swords from the Rider–Waite tarot deck. The Six of Swords is a card used in Latin-suited playing cards which include tarot decks. It is part of what tarot card readers call the "Minor Arcana". Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play tarot card games. [1]