The Tarot History Forum had then maybe 1200 articles and it existed only 2 groups in the History section, later it was changed to 5. The other existing group was the Tarot de Marseille Forum, which had a little more posts, if I remember correctly. ... Now I'm at about 1660 posts to the Forum, from ...

Recently (yesterday) I posted to Aeclectic: ***************************************** [QUOTE=Huck]Well .... to give an example, and you'll see, that it is a scandal, a scandal of bad information structure inside the system. And the victim is you, as you simply don't get up-to-date-informations. Stua...

hi Marco, hi Ross, it's clear about Chariot and Strength, I misread there something, however the passage about "World" and "Angel or paradize" is not simple. In the translation the author says "last", when he introduces "Angel", but in the row of his descripti...

Good work, Marco and Ross. "Innkeeper" is something, that appears in La Sphaera (the Sforza illuminated manuscipt around 1470), in the short passage of Meister Ingold 1432) and his two decks (in one of them), in the chess iconography since Cessolis (ca. 1300; as profession of one of the pa...

http://trionfi.eu/decks/paris/interpretation.jpg Maybe it's difficult to see the monster face in the fouldre of Tarot de Paris. So I attempted GIMP to become better understandable. The whole seems to be the head of a big fish with the nose of a pig. One sees only the front. The black man sits upon ...

Thr Raffael picture description speaks of a "lira da braccio". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lira_da_braccio Sure, the figure in the Cicognara deck is more Apoll as it is Orpheus. Generally the picture Nr. XVI in Geofroy's Tarot doesn't really look as a tower ... it's an incomplete deck, ca...

http://trionfi.eu/decks/geofroy/16.jpg and to "Orpheus with Viola" http://trionfi.com/0/j/d/leber/p/18.jpg "Cicognara deck" means "6 reproduced cards" made from an older deck in the possession of Leopold Cicognara, published in book ca. 1830. http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/...

Thanks Debra. Another new and probably fabulous tool has developed for the researchers market ... it looks like this: http://a-tarot.eu/p/tnews3.jpg The humble opinion of an early Tarot researcher is of 1887 and it was found here .. http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9505E3DC...

I would say that, in this context, the expression "Maison de Dieu" is of an astrological origin. Western geomancy was largely "hybridated" with astrology. For instance, this list of the names of the astrological houses (loci) is from Julius Firmicus Maternus (IV century AC): &qu...

Still in an experimental form has developed http://a-tarot.eu an installation to build a new Tarot and Playing Cards News system. A first article is there ... "Tarot at youtube (2009)", which might take some of us hours and even days. Of special interest should be ... "Secrets of the ...