This short history of divination with cards looks at three main traditions: the French, the British, and the Anglo-American gone ‘French’. The style is succinct and personal, with the writing performing on two levels: the descriptive in a historical context and the reflective in a contemplative context. In between, the author offers an original take on how we can think about the history of divination.

This short history of divination with cards looks at three main traditions: the French, the British, and the Anglo-American gone ‘French’. The style is succinct and personal, with the writing performing on two levels: the descriptive in a historical context and the reflective in a contemplative context. In between, the author offers an original take on how we can think about the history of divination.

This book is an omnibus edition that gathers three types of texts around the Marseille Tarot: two previously published works out of print, here in re-edited form, unpublished lectures, and new essays. The book features applications of the basic principles of reading the Marseille Tarot to the contextualization of current questions and concerns.

A book written for the curious reader who might like to know what some of the greatest literary figures in Western literature are up to when they read the Tarot, or use divination as inspiration for their work. Italo Calvino, Robert Browning, W.B. Yeats, and Rachel Pollack gather in a concatenation of voices across the page; voices that the author traces as if using transparent paper, a good ink pen, and an occasional draw with the Tarot cards for the idea that baffles, or the philosophy that resists the gratuitous.

This book explores the possibility to fit the essence of six Tarot cards to the constricted structure of the haiku poem. The result is a beautiful economy of thought and image.

This book is for all the diviners who want to hear what else we can do with the Tarot cards other than what a particular school or tradition prescribes. It’s a treat à la carte for all the diviners who ever felt burnt out, after having served the same dish over and over to people.

This is a collection of essays that gathers the voices of both reputed veteran and young cartomancers. The book captures the heart of cartomancy through 21+1 snappy rules, delivered with martial arts aplomb in the form of manifestos.

The Power of the Pips looks at how the pip cards embody connection, from creating coherence to burning bridges. The principal questions asked are these: how logical is the function of each card? How do we see context creating meaning in accordance with function and common sense? When are the pip cards syntactic markers, such as a full stop, a comma, or an adverb?

This book is a version of the transcript of eight video recorded lectures. It draws on the practice of divination in the context of storytelling and Zen philosophy.

This book depicts manifestations of folk magic, black magic, and practical magic as courage and everyday wisdom, and it demonstrates how reading cards can entice us to concrete magical action.

This book is about the art of reading the image, semiotics, and the poetics of cartomancy. Camelia Elias offers an introduction to the Marseille Tarot cards combined with readings of the cards in context. For each description there’s an interpretation that combines the cunning-folk method of reading the cards – based on making logical inferences about the meaning of the cards – and the visual argument method, which relies on the subjective and individual art of perceiving. The book also features full-length readings, based on real-life tarot consultations.

This is the second of two volumes that gather a series of interviews and conversations between tarotist, philosopher, and visual artist, Enrique Enriquez and other seminal voices in the cartomantic community.

This is the first of two volumes that gather a series of interviews and conversations between tarotist, philosopher, and visual artist, Enrique Enriquez and other seminal voices in the cartomantic community.

In Tarology Enrique Enriquez sees the Tarot de Marseille through the prism and science of pataphysics, the science of imaginary solutions. By following into the footsteps of Oulipian writers, he applies the idea of constraint and the rule of restriction to the surprisingly visual and gestural nature of Tarot.