Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Recent Tarot posts

I have a couple of new posts up at The Magician's Table:

In "Between a dog and a wolf," I discuss the possible role played by the French idiom entre chien et loup in the development of the Moon card.

In "The Ace of Cups combines baptismal and Eucharistic imagery," I argue that this dual imagery is present not only in the Rider-Waite but in the Tarot de Marseille and even as far back as the Visconti-Sforza.

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After baptism

Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses came up recently in a highly unlikely coincidence, as described in my last post, " Baptism ...