What is it about? Let’s ask Noblet deck of majors created by Stav Appel (www.TorahTarot.com ) about the story.
Deck by Stav Appel
It is indeed about my journey to understand heavens and earth, to hear new fresh perspective of channeled entity (Elias) on topics that are important to me, and to deliver this treasure trove of the information as a powerful book.
And what else is cool about the book?
Deck by Stav Appel
Where the book really shines is in helping to make aware, intentional and empowering choices. Helping to convert inner subjective movements into objective powerful magic, integrate inner and outer life. We literally examine zodiac symbols as animal characters, as shown on the cards.
Most importantly the book is “like a box of chocolate” – there is something in it for everyone!
The question was whether reading with full deck or major arcana is more effective and why. I used full deck to see what each method offers.
Row 1 (nature of reading with a full deck) seems to be a precisely powerful unifying balanced approach that keeps me interested and reading well . Row 2 (nature of reading with trumps only) seems to tilt the scales a bit, wouldn’t you say? But of course it too is super charged with all these swords ⚔️ 🗡. Maybe a bit too charged for my taste.
To Mozart the game of Tarot was one of the favorite pastimes. It could probably be compared to video games of today played with friends and strangers, except it was commonly played not only in taverns or private houses, but also in theaters before and/or after the show.
Notes on Miller 1780 by Giordano Berti
This copy of Miller 1780 is most likely the same design as cards played by maestro himself. We may never know if he ever used it for cartomancy, or if it enticed his imagination to enrich his compositions or operas, but we do know about his passion for the game.
My newly arrived copy was created by inimitable artist, art historian, expert consultant and teacher Giordano Berti. I’d like to share his recent comment on the look and feel of the cards that I found quite musical:
To Mozart!
Sometimes someone says to me: “Hey Berti, why your Tarot cards look so old? Why don’t you have the cards laminated?”
Every time I have to explain my philosophy.
I hate plastic. It breaks my heart to see oceans and beaches full of plastic. OK? I don’t dispute who produces plastic cards. I just don’t like plastic cards. And I don’t like plastic cards. for environmental reasons only.
Mine is a work of love for history. I want RINASCIMENTO decks to look like antique decks, faithful in color and size. But it is not just an aesthetic fact.
I want to give the physical sensation of having an ancient deck in hand as faithfully as possible. For this I searched for a very special, rare and expensive paper. This cardstock is very similar to the old cotton paper.
Many people, after they started using the RINASCIMENTO decks, write me to tell the sensations they felt: warmth, softness, naturalness and a particular inspiring energy.
And the music that comes out of non-laminated cards … listen to it! Plastic cards do “prrrrrr”. Ancient cards do “fruuuisch” … a sound that caresses the heart.
This is my great satisfaction. I am happy to make people happy …. and not to pollute the world .. at least, the world of Tarot. I do my duty like that too. 🙂
Let’s invite new people to the table. You got to roll the dice to win. Boom. Was it wine or lightening that lit up the tree? In the large scheme of things you are famous – irreplaceable and indispensable – so have another drink on the house!
One of my favorite things in Tarot, especially Tarot de Marseille and similar, is “eye rhymes” – a kind of moving poetry in flowing images where one can follow similarities (“rhymes”), fill in the blanks with context and see the story unfold. Each time one looks one can see a different story. Is it past and future meeting in the present as two rivers meet in the ocean? Is it getting out of the shell and braving genuine direct experience to turn your world upside down? Is it a birth? A lifetime?
Or is it a COVID released by animals to turn everything on its head and suspend us in midair, inviting us to take a look at our world and ourselves in it??? That would be a remarkable story to tell in 9/12/2019 when I pulled the cards. That was when I took a class with Enrique Enriquez – a brilliant tarot reader, master teacher and an amazing genuine poet.
I had so much fun just pulling cards and reading, my baby moves and his fluid play. To protect my fragile ego I told myself that this method shall be secondary for me, perhaps to stretch my limits, a practice of sorts. What I didn’t know was that a curious seed was planted. My “upside down” side got the spotlight it was longing for. That too can be a plot in these three cards posted exactly a year ago.
Our collective knowledge and way of life came under attack. We had to protect it and we engraved it in this one golden deck. We kept the magic close.
As our people were considered traitors and persecuted, we had to be quick on our feet, ready for any surprises.
Unsuspecting rulers allowed this to go on and multiply, but it was never what it seemed on the surface. Though deduced to the bare bone, the tradition was saved, thanks to the divine protection.
Tarotoria 