Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archive (Eng)

Tarot cards have been the most popular of all esoteric tools for over 500 years. Why? Because the cards are cheap and easy to carry. People are drawn to playing games and feel compelled to find meaning in the chaos of paradoxical signs.

The vibrant iconography consisting of "arcanas" appeals to us like nothing else, moves us, each card weaves a universal story, a metaphorical path to transformation.

This 400-page book offers, for the first time, a closer look at 500 years of figurative card games created or used to predict the future, divination, and oracle purposes and will explore, one card at a time, their iconographic roots at the intersection of the medieval imaginarium, Western esoteric wisdom, folklore, and also contemporary art and pop culture. With hundreds of images from over 100 decks, rarely published and often forgotten in library archives, it will provide the first visual history of tarot.

See our full selection of Tarot cards here.