Thank you both EE and MjHurst! I must explain myself- I have for 15 years have felt that the occult system that I learned over 30 years ago by having only the RWS; finally appeared to me to be a load of Cock and Bull. I had never seen a Tarot de Marseille until 5 years ago, at the time I was retired...

I made a quip in one of the threads that sometimes I think the printer gathered up disparate images to make do for the new game called Tarot. Then I saw that a poster made a statement that some were searching for ideas that there was no hidden meanings in the sequence of 22. I am not sure whether it...

Hi Eugim! On the Charles V1 card the cupids are pointing past and behind three couples? Why I think they are looking to hit the couples that are not involved in Love but arranged marriages. It is a pun on Morgantic marriages or dalliances that are for poetic love not for politic love. As to no hidde...

Great question Debra!! It answers something else for me. I always figured Judgment was the 'card' of the sequence and I think the Fool and the World are the last two cards as if to say of final outcome...' How sweet is mortal sovereignty (Fool thinking not of the future)= Foolishness How blest the p...

Well jmd I have a coffee table book (Medieval/Renaissance astrological illuminations)that does not give credits for the images within. :( I have to surf to find the images and I usually find them in images if I put in the search 'medieval astrology images'. Here is one from my book that I found in i...

Well Bless your Soul indeed! This is A Soul going to heaven http://www.godecookery.com/mtales/mtales03.jpg This is rescuing a soul http://www.nashfordpublishing.co.uk/churches/oxfordshire/images/ewelme_church_rising_soul_monument.jpg Renaissance astrology image of World soul http://www.renaissanceas...

That well was more a gold mine neh? The image is like the ivory one from the Vatican, you showed in the other thread. It really is better produced than the latter ones too! It makes me think that those who learned the art of woodblock had died, or their blocks were so used up and worn down by later....

Phew! I am not sure what is going on here with my postings- the board keeps cutting out and I have to re login- and I am not sure where I am...... My last post? was alluding to the thread... Musing on the sequence of 22- sorry if it looks out of place- but it has some relevance to the Church :roll: ...

Hi Mac! This is probably not the thread for this- but... What do you think came first? 1.The notion of the game- then get the images for it or 2.Had the images - then made the game? Here is what I mean. I had heard of a card game when I was small (er) called Old Maid- someone at school told me abou...

The Church was also GOOD at co-opting earlier sites, symbols & concepts to suit the needs of the "new faith" e.g. 3hares, greenman, dying & rising gods, the Good Shepard, Madonna & child, the fish symbol[Vesica Pisces], the cross[ankh, tau, Greek] , the sacred meal etc. Mac22 ...