EvelynnMorragan Posted January 16, 2020 Posted January 16, 2020 Here is a list of publication dates and materials on the tarot published before the 90's: Unknown Book T - The Tarot by Golden Dawn (some say MacGreggor Mathers & Harriet Felkin?) 1888 The Tarot: A Short Treatise on Reading the Cards by MacGreggor Mathers 1892/6 The Tarot of the Bohemians: The Most Ancient Book in the World by Papus 1911 The Pictorial Key to the Tarot: Being Fragments of a Secret Tradition Under the Veil of Divination by A.E. Waite 1913 The Symbolism of the Tarot: Philosophy of Occultism in Pictures and Numbers by P.D. Ouspensky 1927 Tarot of the Magicians by Oswald Wirth 1930 General Book of the Tarot by A.E. Thierens 1944 The Book of Thoth (Egyptian Tarot) by Aleister Crowley 1947 The Tarot: A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages by Paul Foster Case 1960 The Tarot Reveals: A Modern Guide to Reading the Tarot Cards by Eden Gray 1962 The Tarot: A Contemporary Course of the Quintessence of Hermetic Occultism by Mouni Sadhu 1970 A Complete Guide to the Tarot by Eden Gray 1979 Tarot: A New Handbook of the Apprentice by Eileen Connolly 1980 Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom: A Book of Tarot by Rachel Pollack 1984 Tarot for Yourself: A Workbook for Personal Transformation by Mary K. Greer 1987 Tarot Constellations: Patterns of Personal Destiny by Mary K. Greer 1987 Tarot: The Handbook for the Journeyman by Eileen Connolly 1988 Tarot Mirrors: Reflections of Personal Meaning by Mary K. Greer Did I miss anything important? Which would you recommend looking into?
Rose Lalonde Posted January 17, 2020 Posted January 17, 2020 (edited) 1983 The Qabbalistic Tarot Robert Wang (Frequently suggested reading on the old AT forum.) Quote Which would you recommend looking into? Depends on which direction you want to go with tarot... If hermetic Qabalah and astrological correspondences for the cards are of interest, you'll find several that cover it. If not you'd skip many of these and perhaps head to some of the books on the other list you posted today, or some of the great books on reading the TdM. If you're going to read with Crowley's Thoth Tarot and have an interest in learning more about what ideas went into that deck's creation (rather than the approach of focusing solely on the art and the impressions that gives you), his Book of Thoth is an obvious choice. And Waite's Pictorial Key similarly for the RWS. Those two and some others you list are free online. As you may already know, both of those authors were GD members, so Mathers will have a good bit of overlap, whereas Papus, for example, will give you a different set of correspondences, so an alternate perspective. Edited January 17, 2020 by Rose Lalonde
EvelynnMorragan Posted January 18, 2020 Author Posted January 18, 2020 (edited) Thanks! I didn't realize Qabbalistic Tarot was so old! For some reason I thought it was newer. I own a handful of titles off this list. I was just curious, and looking into the traditional methods. Edited January 18, 2020 by EvelynnMorragan BBC code
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