The Tarot

NOTE: Newer posts about the Tarot will be at The Magician's Table, and all these old posts will eventually be duplicated there.

This is an organized index to my posts on the Tarot on this and earlier blogs. Posts under each subheading are listed in chronological order, from oldest to newest.

• Major Arcana
• General
• Undeveloped idea: Tarot triangles
• Why Waite switched Justice and Strength
• Dice and the Tarot trumps
• The root trumps of the Air Hexactys
• Dice and the tarot Trumps: another approach
• Oswald Wirth's version of ROTA
• The Lover's Wheel of Oswald Wirth, and four alternatives
• The Fool's Wheel
• I. The Magician
• The Magician: preliminary thoughts
• The Rider-Waite Magician
• Lévi's influence on Waite's Magician card
• A gallery of early or otherwise historically important Magician cards
• Hints of Bosch's Conjurer in Magician card variants
• What's on the Magician's table?
• One of the Magician's cups is a leather dice shaker
• Cards on the Magician's table?
• II. The Papess
• More Tarot-relevant art from York Minster
• IV. The Emperor
• The Emperor and the number 4
• X. The Wheel of Fortune
• The Wheel of Fortune in Carmina Burana (13th century)
• The Wheel of Fortune: Miélot and Dürer (15th century)
• The Wheel of Fortune: Visconti-Sforza and Tarot de Marseille
• The Wheel of Fortune: Éliphas Lévi
• The staurogram, the eight-spoked wheel, and the Wheel of Fortune
• The Wheel of Fortune: Rider-Waite
• The orientation of ROTA
• Oswald Wirth's version of ROTA
• A rationale for Waite's orientation of ROTA
• XI. Strength
• More Tarot-relevant art from York Minster
• Samson and the Strength card
• Out of the strong came forth sweetness
• XIII.
• Dismembering the world
• The Reaper of Marseille
• XXI. The World
• Saint-Sernin Basilica, the Tarot of Marseilles, and Whitley Strieber
• The Throne and the World
• Confirmation that the World is based on the throne scene in Revelation
• A possible missing link in the evolution of the World (Tarot)
• Minor Arcana
• General
• Suits as elemental qualities rather than elements
• Dice and the Minor Arcana: Outlining the challenge
• Dice and the Minor Arcana: Opsopaus's geometrical aaproach
• Cups
• The Ace of Cups: A brief overview of its development