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Aeclectic Tarot  


Alchemy and Mysticism.  By Alexander Roob.  The Hermentic Museum.  Koln, Germany, Taschen, 2006.  Index, 573 pages.  ISBN: 9783822850381.  An extensive collection of color and black and white prints for antiquity.  VSCL. 


America Tarot Association 


Bibliography of the Eight of Wands Tarot Website by Mike Garofalo


Book of Changes, I Ching, Tao Oracle.  This deck was designed by Ma Deva Padma in 2002.  It is based on the Chinese Book of Changes, the I Ching.  VSCL. 


The Book of Thoth (Egyptian Tarot).  This deck was designed by Aleister Crowley and painted by Frieda Harris.  It was created and painted by Frieda Harris in from 1938 to 1942.  It was first published as a Tarot deck in 1969.  The deck comes in large and small sizes, and the artwork colors vary somewhat depending upon who is publishing and printing the deck.  VSCL. 


The Book of Thoth: A Short Essay on the Tarot of the Egyptians, Being the Equinox Volume III No. V.  By Aleister Crowley, The Master Therion.  A Short Essay on the Tarot of the Egyptians.  Equinox, Volume III, No. V., 1944, 200 copies.  Published by U.S. Games Systems, Inc, 1977.  287 pages.  ISBN: 0913866121.  VSCL. 


The Complete Book of Tarot Reversals.  By Mary K. Greer.  Woodbury, Minnesota, Llewellyn Publications, 2002.  288 pages.  ISBN: 1567182852. 


Court Cards of the Tarot and Playing Card Decks by Mike Garofalo


The Crowley Tarot.  The Handbook to the Cards by Aleister Crowley and Lady Frieda Harris.  By Akron (C. F. Frey) and Hajo Banzhaf.  Translated from the German by Christine M. Grimm.  Stamford, CT, U.S. Games Systems, Inc., 1995.  222 pages.  ISBN: 0880797150.  I have found this book to be an extremely useful reference tool when doing an analysis of a card.  This is my favorite book on the Thoth Tarot.  VSCL. 


Cups, Hearts, Suit, Tarot and Playing Cards Suit


A Dictionary of Symbols.  By J. E. Cirlot.  Translated from the Spanish by Jack Sage.  New York, Philosophical Library, 1962.  Index, 400 pages.  VSCL. 


Dictionary of the Tarot.  By Bill Butler.  New York, Shocken Book, 1987, 1977.  Glossary, 254 pages.  ISBN: 0805205594.  VSCL. 


Discks, Pentacles, Worlds, Coins, Diamonds, Suit, Tarot and Playing Card Suit


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Everyday Tarot Magic: Meditation and Spells.  By Dorothy Morrison.  St. Paul, Minnesota, Llewellyn Publications, 2002.  Index, 241 pages.  ISBN: 0738701750.  VSCL. 


The Haindl Tarot, Volume I: The Major Arcana.  By Rachel Pollack.  Foreword by Angeles Arrien.  North Hollywood, New Castle, 1990.  222 pages.  ISBN:  0878771557.  VSCL. 


The Haindl Tarot, Volume II: The Minor Arcana.  By Rachel Pollack.  Foreword by Angeles Arrien.  North Hollywood, New Castle, 1990.  228 pages.  ISBN:  0878771565.  VSCL. 


The Hermitage: Tarot History


I Ching, Book of Changes, Tao Oracle.  This deck was designed by Ma Deva Padma in 2002.  It is based on the Chinese Book of Changes, the I Ching.  VSCL.


Index to this Website: Tarot Keywords Index by Mike Garofalo


Intuitive Tarot   By David River. 


Jung and Tarot: An Archetypal Journey.  By Sallie Nichols.  Introduction by Laurens van der Post.  York Beach, Maine, Samuel weiser, Inc., 1980.  References, 392 pages.  ISBN: 0877285152.  VSCL.


Keywords for the Crowley Tarot.  By Hajo Banzhaf and Brigitte Theler.  San Francisco, CA, Weiser Books, 2001.  Index, glossary, bibliography, 244 pages.  ISBN: 1578631734.  VSCL. 


Learning the Tarot: A Tarot Book for Beginners.  By Joan Bunning.  Weiser Books, 1998.  320 pages.  ISBN: 9781578630486. 


Learning Tarot Reversals.  By Joan Bunning.  Weiser Books, 2003.  192 pages.  ISBN: 9781578632718. 


Magick and the Tarot


Major Arcana: Index to Links of Internet Resources, Books, Articles; Symbolism, Correspondences, Symbolism, Iconography.


Mary K. Greer's Tarot Blog


Meditation/Contemplation Techniques 


Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Mysticism.  By Anonymous.  Rockport, Massachusetts, Element Books Limited, 1993.  Martin Kriele, 1985; English translation by Robert A. Powell, 1985.  A detailed study of the Major Arcana.  658 pages.  ISBN: 1852302224.   This book uses the Marseilles 1751 Tarot deck for analysis and interpretation.  VSCL. 


Minor Arcana:  Index to Links of Internet Resources, Books, Articles; Symbolism, Correspondences, Symbolism, Iconography.


Nature Mysticism 


New Age Tarot: A Workbook and Glossary of Symbols.  A Guide to the Thoth Deck.  By James Wanless, Ph.D.  Carmel, California, Merrill-West Pub., 1986.  ISBN: 0961507918.  163 pages.  Voyager Books   VSCL. 


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One Old Druid's Journey: The Notebooks of the Librarian of Gushen Grove   


Pictures from the Heart: A Tarot Dictionary.  By Sandra A. Thomson.  St. Martin's Griffin, First Edition, 2003.  544 pages.  ISBN: 9780312291280. 


Pips, Numbered Cards of Each Suit, 1-10


Portable Magic: Tarot is the Only Tool You Need.  By Donald Tyson.  Woodbury, Minnesota.  Index, bibliography, 230 pages.  ISBN: 0738709802.  VSCL. 


Post-Modern Tarot Decks  


Quotes, Sayings, Poems, Spells for Tarot


Reading and Ceremony for Charging a Tarot Deck: Charging and Clearing Decks.  By Joy Vernon.


Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot


Ripening Peaches:  Daoist Studies and Practices 


Sex Magick


Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom: A Book of Tarot.  By Rachel Pollack.  Revised with a New Preface.  San Francisco, California, Weiser Books, 1980, 2007.  Index, bibliogrpahy, 354 pages.  ISBN: 1578634083.  This book uses the Waite-Smith-Rider 1909 Deck for analysis and interpretation.  VSCL. 


Spiritual Healer License Board  


Strategic Intuition for the 21st Century: Tarot for Business.  By James Wanless, Ph.D..  Carmel, California, Merrill-West Publishing, 1996.  193 pages.  This is a workbook type format with exercises.  ISBN: 1886708010.  VSCL. 


Suits, Four Suits, of Tarot Deck and Playing Card Deck 


Swords, Spades, Suit, Tarot and Playing Card Suit


Symbols of Transformation.  By Carl G. Jung.  Translated by R.F.C. Hull.  Princeton University Press, Bollingen Series XX, 1956, 1976.  Index, Bibliography, 557 pages.  VSCL. 


Tao Oracle.  This deck was designed by Ma Deva Padma in 2002.  It is based on the Chinese Book of Changes, the I Ching


Tarot - Aid to Meditation  


Tarot as a Way of Life: A Jungian Approach to the Tarot.  By Karen Hamaker-Zontag.  York Beach, Maine, Samuel Weiser, 1997.  Index, bibliography, 271 pages.  ISBN: 9780877288787.  VSCL.  


The Tarot Book.  Basic Instruction for Reading the Cards.  By Jana Riley.  York Beach, Maine, Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1992.  Bibliography, 203 pages.  ISBN: 0877287236.  VSCL.


Tarot Classic.  By Stuart Kaplan.  New York, Grossett and Dunlap, 1972.  Index, detailed bibliography, 240 pages.  ISBN: 0448115441.  VSCL. 


The Tarot Court Cards: Archetypal Patterns of Relationship in the Minor Arcana.  By Kate Warwick-Smith.  Destiny Books, 2003.  224 pages.  ISBN: 0892810920.  VSCL. 


Tarot Decks Discussed on this Website 


Tarot Dictionary and Compendium.  By Jana Riley.  York, Maine, Samuel Weiser, Red Wheel, 1995.  320 pages.  ISBN: 0877288216.  VSCL. 


Tarot for Your Self: A Workbook for Personal Transformation.  By Mary K. Greer.  2nd Edition.  Pompton Plains, New Jersey, Career Press, Inc., 2002.  Bibliography, 299 pages.  ISBN: 9781564145888.  VSCL. 


The Tarot: History, Mystery and Lore.   By Cynthia E. Giles.  New York, Fireside Book, Simon and Schuster, 1992.  Index, 238 pages.  ISBN: 0671891014.  A well written general introduction to the Tarot.  VSCL. 


Tarot: Mirror of the Soul: Handbook for the Aleister Crowley Tarot.  By Gerd Ziegler.  San Francisco, California, Red Wheel, Weiser Books, 1988.  Brief glossary of symbols.  192 pages.  ISBN: 0877286833.  VSCL. 


Tarot Institute 


Tarot Keywords Index by Mike Garofalo  


Tarot Major Arcana: Index to Links of Internet Resources, Books, Articles; Symbolism, Correspondences, Iconography


The Tarot: Methods, Mastery and More.   By Cynthia E. Giles.  New York, Fireside Book, Simon and Schuster, 1996.  Index, 240 pages.  ISBN: 0684818833.  VSCL. 


Tarot Minor Arcana: Index to Links of Internet Resources, Books, Articles; Symbolism, Correspondences, Iconography


Tarot: Mirror of the Soul: Handbook for the Aleister Crowley Tarot   By Gerd Ziegler.  Handbook for the Aleister Crowley Thoth Tarot.  San Francisco, Weiser Books, 1988.  193 pages.  ISBN: 0877276833.  VSCL. 


Tarot of Ceremonial Magic: A Pictorial Synthesis of Three Great Pillars of Magick (Astrology, Enochian Magick, Goetia).  By Lon Milo Duquette.  York Beach, Maine, Samuel Weiser, 1995.  Bibliography, 276 pages.  ISBN: 0877287643.  VSCL. 


Tarot of the Spirit.  By Pamela Eakins, Ph.D..  Companion to the tarot deck painted by Joyce Eakins.  York Beach, Maine, Samuel Weiser, 1992.  Index, 424 pages.  ISBN: 0877287309.  VSCL. 


Tarot Revelations.  By Richard Roberts.  San Anselmo, California, Vernal Equinox Press, 3rd Edition, 1979, 1987.  Footnotes, 294 pages.  ISBN: 0942380002.  VSCL. 


Tarot School 


Tarot Symbolism.  By Robert V. O'Nell.  Lima, Ohio, Fairway Press, 1986.  392 pages.  ISBN: 0895369362.  VSCL. 


Tarot Teachings: The Art of Learing and Using Tarot.   By Avia Venefica.  "If our minds are glorious mansions, and our spirits are the surrounding landscape, then the Tarot is a doorway revealing a wide realm of ever-increasing beauty, insight, and mystical experience."


Tarot Wisdom: Spiritual Teachings and Deeper Meanings.  By Rachel Pollack.  Woodbury, Minnesota, Llewellyn Publications, 2008.  480 pages.  ISBN: 0738713090. 


Thoth Companion: The Key to the True Symbolic Meaning of the Thoth Tarot.  By Michael Osiris Snuffin.  Woodbury, Minnesota, Llewellyn Publications, 2009.  Index, bibliography, glossary, 216 pages.  ISBN: 9780738711928.  VSCL. 


Tocatta in F: Bach, Chakras, Tarot


21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card.  By Mary K. Greer.  Woodbury, Minnesota, Llewellyn Publications, 2006.  Glossary, bibliography, index, 310 pages.  ISBN: 9780738707846.  VSCL. 


Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot.  By Lon Milo DuQuette.  San Francisco, California, Red Wheel, Weiser Books, 2003.  330 pages.  Glossary, notes, bibliography.  ISBN: 1578632765.  This is an outstanding guide to the Thoth Tarot by an expert in the O.T.O. and Golden Dawn systems and a Master Tarot scholar.  VSCL. 


Understanding the Tarot Court.  By Mary K. Greer and Tom Little.  Special topics in Tarot Series.  Woodbury, Minnesota, Llewellyn Publications, 2004.  Index, glossary, 265 pages.  ISBN: 0738702862.  VSCL. 


Wands, Clubs, Suit, Tarot and Playing Card Decks


Wheel of Tarot: A New Revolution.  Tarot Anthology edited by James Wanless and Angeles Arrien.  Carmel, California, Merrill-West Publishing, 1992.  Index, 303 pages.  ISBN: 0961507977.  VSCL. 


The Voyager Tarot This photomontage deck was designed by James Wanless.  The photographic collage artwork was created by Ken Knutson.  It was first published in 1984, and then in 1991 and 2008. 


VSCL = Valley Spirit Center Library, Red Bluff, California. 


The Way of Tarot: The Spiritual Teacher in the Cards.  By Alejandro Jodorowsky and Marianne Costa.  Translated by John E. Graham.  Interpretation of the Marseille Deck.  Rochester, New York, Destiny Books, 2009.  536 pages.  ISBN: 9781594772634.  VSCL. 


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Tarot Decks Referred to in this Website

 

Visconti 1450    Bonifacio Bembo for Duke Visconti and Duke Sforza in Milan, Italy

Marseille Tarot 1751    Claude Burdel, Switzerland

Waite 1909    Arthur E. Waite and Pamela Coleman Smith, Rider Publisher, England 

Thoth 1940    Aleister Crowley and Freida Harris Tarot Deck, Book of Thoth Tarot, England 

Voyager 1984    James Wanless and Ken Knutson, California

 


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