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The Illustrated Key to the Tarot

L. W. De Laurence

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .rpretation, he signifies sacrifice, but all current meanings attributed to this card are cartomancists' intuitions, apart from any real value, on the symbolical side. The fortune-tellers of the eighteenth century who circulated Tarots, depict a semi-feminine youth in jerkin, poised erect on one foot and loosely attached to a short stake driven into the ground.

13. Death. The method of presentation is almost invariable, and embodies a bourgeois form of symbolism. The scene is the field of life, and amidst ordinary rank vegetation there are living arms and heads protruding from the ground. One of the heads is crowned, and a skeleton with a great scythe is in the act of mowing it. The transparent and unescapable meaning is death, but the alternatives allocated to the symbol are change and transformation. Other heads have been swept from their place previously, but it is, in its current and patent meaning, more especially a card of the death of Kings. In the exotic. . . Read More

Community Reviews

I like the Rider-Waite Tarot, but this book gets some of the very basic and agreed-upon meanings entirely wrong. You’re supposed to study the deck, not just make up your own interpretations. Very misleading book.

Un excelente libro y compendio de significados para iniciarse en este bonito arte. Aunque usa terminajos que, supongo, tendrán dobles o triples raíces para aquellos que están muy clavados y pueden parecer necesarios o apelar a sus sensibilidades. No creo en adivinar el futuro, pero creo en el tarot