Tarot in Media

I saw the book: The Cloisters from Katy Hays. It is a novel with Tarot in it. Did anybody read it? And would you recommend the book? Book description: When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she expects to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead, she finds herself assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for its medieval art collection and its group of enigmatic researchers studying the history of divination. Desperate to escape her painful past, Ann is happy to indulge the researchers’ more outlandish theories about the history of fortune telling. But what begins as academic…

I was wondering if some of you have bought the book: 36 Secrets: A Decanic Journey through the Minor Arcana of the Tarot by T. Susan Chang Information from Amazon https://www.amazon.com/36-Secrets-T-Susan-Chang/dp/1716325099 The minor arcana of the tarot have an astrological secret: 36 of them, in fact. In the early 20th century, members of the British secret society of the Golden Dawn created what would become the world's best-known tarot deck: the Rider Waite Smith tarot. They also created an infrastructure of esoteric correspondences around the deck, assigning each minor card numbered 2 through 10 in each of the four suits, to a decan—a 10°…

I was reading the Guardian the other day, and saw that the Warburg Institute in London has a very interesting occult library - but more specifically, will be holding a show on original Tarot artwork in January. I'm not in London. Wouldn't it be nice of someone to take photos and tell us about it? Or perhaps some TTM members would like to visit as a group? It would be good if we could get temporary memberships for their occult library (being researchers on behalf of this forum). Would we write a book? What topic chapter would you want to write about? Just a suggestion - not sure if it's possible. Let me know your thoughts. I'll see if I can get …

Do any of you here reads comic books? I'm in my 40's now, and I recently found a new love for comic books and graphic novels! In my youth, I never read comics. I was more into prose books and encyclopedia. I started being interested by the occult, magic, sorcery and tarot at 13 years old, in 1993. I started reading comics after I saw the Doctor Strange movie in 2016, I loved every minutes of it, particularly the quick references to the chakras and the auras, and all the mysticism of what we call magick. So, that movie picked my interest in Doctor Strange comics (and many others), and during the last 5 years, I bought lots of them and saw many iterations of the tarot in th…

https://www.amazon.ca/Big-Book-Tarot-Interpret-Personal/dp/157863668X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1537390423&sr=1-1 The Big Book of Tarot: How to Interpret the Cards and Work with Tarot Spreads for Personal Growth Paperback – Aug 2 2019 just noticed this on amazon.. last book of hers was 2007 on tarot reversals.. for myself i remember speculation she had passed on atf, we never did any resolvement as to her actual status,, assuming that this is a new work, it bodes well eh !

I found these collections on Google Plus whilst searching for something else. Not sure how 'legal' it is to post such pictures but I found it fascinating to look at some decks unknown to me till now. https://get.google.com/albumarchive/112868448452435024861 I was looking for Dana Driscoll's email address when these came up in the query answer. Shavini, you might find your 'mystery' tarot here.

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I accidentally came upon Lo Scarabeo's 3 part Encyclopedia (Fundamentals/Experience/Compendium). What attracted me was the artwork and the volume I must say *drool*. I like big books and I cannot lie. ☺️ You can get a glimpse from the inside, but not enough to determine wether it's worth it to spend money on. I can imagine since it's published by a publisher specialised in all things tarot that it's not. I haven't seen it on any lists as recommended either. Does somebody have a copy?

I no longer have a scanner and have been hand photographing cards with my smart phone for professional readings and social media. Can anyone recommend a good method to get a great result? Tripod maybe? Scanner app? What do other people do? Much Thanks.

So I received this book as a Christmas gift and I had to share it with you all as it's stunning. It explores some of the wonderful artwork produced for Tarot decks over the years, and also where art and the practice of Tarot meet. https://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/art/all/08003/facts.tarot_the_library_of_esoterica.htm# At the risk of going off topic, the book was produced as part of a trilogy with the other two books exploring Astrology and Witchcraft, for those who are interested. Enjoy 😊

Do you know any good resources for finding images for entire decks? Now that I no longer have a scanner, this would be so helpful. Tarot.com does have some complete decks reproduced. I can find some individual card images on Pinterest.com or by Google searches. Thank you.

Hi, everyone. I am glad to have discovered the forum, and to have become a participant. The Navajo had a saying that whenever one comes to visit, it is a good habit to bring something with oneself, be it even something as simple a smile. Therefore, I thought that for my first post here, I would bring something, and I would make it a subject that seems to have interested quite a few collectors of Tarot in the past - the HBO's series "Carnivàle". Those who remember it no doubt recall the importance of Tarot, and the unforgettable opening of the show, with its mysterious, painted deck that turned into living panoramas. There have been many discussions…

I’ve read many times on here about members only having a few books to reference when they were learning to read tarot. At the book barn where I picked up several cartomancy books, they also had a 1960’s copy of this book. I went back yesterday to pick it up and I am so glad I did. I have the black Eden Gray’s book and thought it might have been the same so I left it the first time. I won’t be doing that again. This books is a treasure.

I was wondering if some of you have bought the book: Your tarot court, read any deck with confidence from Ethony Dawn. ( https://www.llewellyn.com/product.php?ean=9780738758657 ) I am wondering if someone of you has this book. The contents look very interesting. My questions are: •Is there something new in this book? •Are there things mentioned in this book about card reading, what you have never seen before? •Is it more focused on the beginner reader, or is there also stuff for the intermediate and advanced reader? •Would you recommend this book? Thanks in advance.

I like this article about Princess Mary from Denmark. Unfortunately the cards are not mentioned. Any idea which cards it could have been? Here is the article link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5060063/Princess-Mary-tarot-card-reader-predicted-royal-future.html

Recently a new book from Marcus Katz & Tali Goodwin came out and it is named: Tarot Time Traveller: Enhance Your Modern Readings with the Wisdom of the Past. Contents from this book: 1. Cartomantic Orientation 1 2. Cartomancy Card Meanings 27 3. Cartomancy Methods 63 4. The Square of Sevens 87 5. Tarot de Marseille 117 6. Lenormand 127 7. The Pioneer Years 161 8. The Magical Years 191 9. The Illustrated Years 207 10. The New Aeon 229 11. Spiritual Tarot 251 12. Tarosophy 279 13. Time Travel Guide 307 Afterword 329 Answers to the Exam Questions 333 Appendix 1: Card Meanings 335 Appendix 2: Tarot Time Convertor 351 Bibliography 353 Art Credit Lis…

Recently Leeza Robertson has published her book: Tarot Reversals for Beginners, Five Approaches to Reading Upside-Down Cards. I was wondering if somebody has this book. Is there something new in it? Do you like it? Would you recommend me this book? Thanks.

Somehow this article from last year reappeared on the CNN title page: https://www.cnn.com/style/article/pamela-colman-smith-tarot-art-whitney/index.html (love her painting of The Wave ♥)

Have any of you tried Loteria cards? You can find them in most any Hispanic grocery shop. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009R4IW5U/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 I ask because there were a number of us at AT that worked with them for awhile. The decks are usually under a dollar. Anyway, all that said to say, this might be a interesting book to get

I saw something slightly amusing recently - I rewatched 1995's "Hideaway" for the first time in many years. It's a goofy yet entertaining thriller, based on Dean Koontz's book (although Koontz hated it and disowned it, since it turned his grim horror novel into something of an action film). At any rate, there is a scene in which the protagonist visits a medium to try explaining odd visions that he has been experiencing. She senses the presence of a powerful entity about him, and then realizes that there is another presence, sinister and malevolent, following him and quickly closing in. She uses a Tarot deck in the scene, and since "Hideaway" is a US film, there was a…

Has anyone read Bill Heidrick's works on the Tarot? He posted them online for free, and I found them quite informative upon browsing some passages. I haven't read all of them tho, so I can't fully vouch for them.

Hi all! I started a YouTube channel but haven’t had much time to post anything ... until now! Received my 5 Cent Tarot and love it and wanted to try my hand at an unboxing video. Learned a lot with just this one - first I’m not sure how the quality turned out... not sure if it’s my connection or the upload itself that is not the quality I thought it would be so if someone wouldn’t mind giving me feedback I would welcome it! Also, I took my time when drawing the cards and reading through all the upright and reverse meanings because it was my intent that I wanted to leave the image of the card up for a bit so someone watching could really see it - but it ended u…

Hey all! I recently started listening to "The Anti-fragile tarot podcast" on Spotify, and I'm really enjoying it! I wanted to know if anyone had any more recommendations for youtube series or podcasts that have to do with tarot and/or the occult?

I don't know if any of you are aware of the game site "pogo.com" ... but one of the many games they have are hidden item games based (loosely) on the Sherlock Holmes stories by Doyle. I was playing one based on the story of "The Red-headed League" and noticed that Holmes has a Tarot deck in his study! It appears to be a TdM style deck ...

These are some fun,leisurely old-radio-broadcast-style shows. I like to listen to them when I'm puttering around the kitchen. I'll just post a couple of links here and let the people who are interested do what I do - wander the huge backlog of broadcasts and click into what you will. 😎 Here's one with Madame Nadia, one of my favorite readers http://www.blogtalkradio.com/luckymojohoodoorootworkhour/2015/05/17/lucky-mojo-hoodoo-rootwork-hour-rebroadcast-madame-nadia-on-divination-51715 Jon St. Germain's Crystal Silence League Hour has a whole series of Tarot broadcasts. They start with this one, the Fool, and go from there: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/misclmcrad…