SAMPLE LESSONS
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Place, Robert M. The Tarot: History Symbolism and Divination. ISBN: 1-58542-349-1
Summary
1781: The tarot deck becomes primarily regarded as a divination tool rather than a game because Antoine Court comes across the card deck at a party. He and the other guests make up nonsense about the symbolism being from ancient Egypt.
Early 1900s: The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn layers on western esoteric themes.
Down the rabbit hole
Antoine Court de Gebilin moved the Fool card from the end of the trumps to the beginning.
de Gebilin’s book
de Gebilin was a French Protestant Freemason
de Gebilin hung out with Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin
Ancient Egypt and the Age of Enlightenment
The Pictorial Guide to the Tarot (written)
The Pictorial Guide to the Tarot (audio)
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Place, Robert M. The Tarot: History Symbolism and Divination. ISBN: 1-58542-349-1
Summary
1770: Jean-Baptiste Alliette, the ‘first professional tarot reader’, going by the pseudonym ‘Etteilla’, publishes a book on divination with cards. He provides instructions for card spreads, and includes keywords for assigned card meanings.
1785: Etteilla publishes a book specifically on tarot card reading.
1791: Etteilla redesigns the tarot, adding hermetic and astrological elements.
Down the rabbit hole
DOCU-FICTION ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF TAROT