Tarot Emblemata: Decoding Magical Symbolism

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A tarot deck is used for reflection and divination: you shuffle, lay cards out in a spread, and interpret each card's imagery and position.

“This deck teaches us to look beyond the surface, to engage with a gaze of awe, admiration, and reverence.” —Laetitia Barbier, author of Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archive Tarot Emblemata is a magical and mystical tarot deck based on the 1551 book of emblems by Claude Paradin. Renaissance emblems are intimate illustrations with accompanying mottos that allegorically and symbolically express sentiments, concepts, societal concerns, and parables. These Renaissance emblems are a didactic genre of interpretive art and, within them, author and creator Nitasia Roland has discovered that their enigmatic imagery and “mottos” correspond dynamically and align perfectly with the seventy cards of the Major and Minor Arcana of the tarot. Among the many ancient and iconic images this deck portrays—plumes, helmets, swords, gemstone rings, coins, wands, clouds, wreaths, flowers, animals, and trees—Roland sees the evolution of tarot’s wands, swords, cups, and coins, as well as evocative glimmers of the Major Arcana archetypes.

• Creator: Nitasia Roland
• Cards: 83
• Includes: guidebook (as described by the publisher)

• Title: Tarot Emblemata: Decoding Magical Symbolism (83 Full-Color Cards and 192-Page Guidebook)
• Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
• ISBN: 9781578638963