TAROT FOR ROMEO AND JULIET
TAROT FOR ROMEO AND JULIET: REFLECTIONS ON RELATIONSHIPS
CAMELIA ELIAS
This book is about the tension between how singular the manifestation of love is and what we assume, often wrongly, about the idea of togetherness. To know the difference means to know the heart of the other. To know the heart of man is, in fact, the highest, sages and artists tell us. But who has this gift? Lovers do. Lovers share a passion that exceeds common understanding, and yet their acting on it can be fraught.
While knowing the heart of the other is the premise for the experience of grand passion, this very knowledge is also the price we pay for the image of an infinite love. But what if lovers fail at relationships? This book is an investigation into what happens to the knowledge of the heart when basic communication breaks down, or when we realize that all the assumptions we make about the other are wrong.
Borrowing Shakespeare’s passionate lovers, Romeo and Juliet, Camelia Elias weaves a personal story of love and loss through encounters with the Tarot. At the cartomancy table we also encounter Werner Herzog’s films, Klaus Kinski’s acting, Formula One driver Ayrton Senna, and professors of Psychology, Renaissance, and Religious Studies.
In this book Juliet drives a sports car without crashing, and Romeo commits harakiri, Japanese style, while reading tomes such as Thinking with Demons. This book is an homage to the love whose image exceeds even that of the imagination.
The fine edition is made with the bibliophile in mind, the type of book lover who can appreciate the power of form and top notch materials. How does the well-pondered design match the author’s intent? The fine edition aims at giving readers the physical experience of sitting with a magical object in their hands.
6×9” | B&W illustrations | 144 pp
ISBN 978-8792633811 paperback
ISBN 978-8792633835 ebook
CATEGORY
Divination, Memoir
EDITIONS
Fine binding hardback 2020 I SOLD OUT
Standard paperback 2020 | $17.50
Ebook 2020 | $13
NOTE
A personal take on Shakespeare’s play through the lens of philosophy and divination.
REVIEWS
There’s something going on in this writing. It’s so good. There's something amazing about it. There’s a distillation, subtlety, and clarity in it that makes one really tune into it. It’s high culture and pre-existing knowledge, and I’m just astonished. While reading this book I felt the need to ritualize Camelia Elias’s ideas about relationship. — CHARLES ABLER, artist, philosopher, and online content and marketing strategist
I love this book so much. It just feels perfectly in sync with the moment, the day itself. And I decided to slowly enjoy every page of it, instead of just binging on it. — NEBOJSA SAVIC, anthropologist
This is a sensual book, alluring, soft and yet cold if one is caught unawares. It is a thing of incredible beauty, I will treasure it. — MARCO FELGUEIRAS, operations coordinator
It is brilliant (read the longer full review here). — EMMA GIANNINI, literary critic
This book is a thing of beauty. — WENDY GADZUK, artist and musician
