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Tarot de Marseilles
Jean Dodal Tarot
 
Re-edited by: Jean-Claude Flornoy, Cartier enlumineur
Editions Letarot.com
2009
ISBN #978-2-914820-10-3
 
The “Tarot of Jean Dodal” (Lyon, 1701/1715) is the latest deck in the French Marseille Tarot tradition to be re-edited by Cartier enlumineur Jean-Claude Flornoy. Previously re-edited was  the “Tarot  Both decks are preserved in the French National Library. There are two existing copies [...]

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Where can one get Tarot courses ala carte? At The Tarot School, of course! (Ummm …no pun intended!) Ruth Ann and Wald Amberstone, founders of the Tarot school, have created a stunning menu of Tarot classes, offered in person, online, via teleclasses (classes by phone), and by correspondence. They also offer audio courses, a degree [...]

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Ramblings

Listening to the Commodores “XX No Tricks” CD. This is one of my latest joys – reconnecting with the music from my misspent youth. I am slowly adding new CD’s covering a variety of genre’s – great fun! Music is definitely opening up my life!
Re-prioritizing projects – finishing some, starting others. Where will Tarot be [...]

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Friday the 13th

Welcome to Friday the 13th! For some people, myself included, this is just another day. For other people, in varying degrees, there is a sense of scariness, of fear of the unknown, of something really, really bad happening.
In 2009 there were three Friday the 13th’s – one in February, one in March, and now one [...]

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“The Winter Ghosts”

I just finished reading “The Winter Ghosts”, by Kate Mosse. What an extraordinary book! It talks about the things that haunt us, and how they can take over our lives. The story takes place in the France, in the areas of Toulouse and Nulle – areas that have seen tremendous bloodshed, and whole people’s obliterated.
The [...]

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I just a few days we will be celebrating Halloween (All Hallow’s Eve, Samhain). I thought that I would like to create two things: a Tarot reading, and a Tarot meditation. On the one night of the year that the veil between the worlds is the most transparent, our readings can be scary real!
I defined [...]

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Templar Tarot: The Journey
Author: Stephen Dafoe
Artist: Allen Chester
Inspired By Design
2009
ISBN #978-0-9715867-1-0
“This project is dedicated to the seekers of truth that desire to know themselves through the eternal wisdom of the ages.”
Allen Chester, Artist
“Templar Tarot: The Journey” takes off where the “Templar Tarot” left off. Quite literally – the added (79th) card from the “Templar Tarot” [...]

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The Lost Symbol
Author: Dan Brown
Doubleday
2009
ISBN #978-0-385-50422-5
Dan Brown, author of the “Da Vinci Code”, has come up with another thriller that is thoroughly steeped in wealth, privilege, politics, secret fraternities, hidden laboratories, and the extremes of human nature. His character Robert Langdon, a Harvard symbologist, is yet again in the position of finding the solution to [...]

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The Rose Labyrinth
Author: Titania Hardie
Atria Books
2008
ISBN #978-1-60751-391-9
“The Rose Labyrinth”, by Titania Hardy, contains some of the very best esoteric fiction that I have ever read. I love this book, and know that I will reread it many times over. The storyline centers around sixteenth century astrologer/mathematician/mystic John Dee, and how he hid much of his [...]

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Navigators Tarot of the Mystic SEA
Author: Julia Turk
U.S. Games Systems, Inc.
1997
ISBN #1-57281-023-8
“Navigators Tarot of the Mystic SEA” is the 236 page companion book for the deck of the same name (also by Julia Turk). From the book: “The Navigators Tarot of the Mystic SEA” is a guide to the language of the symbols used in [...]

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