Table Of ContentTAROSOPHY
TAROT TO ENGAGE LIFE, NOT ESCAPE IT
Marcus Katz
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This edition revised with updated links and references.
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ALSO BY MARCUS KATZ
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Learning Lenormand (Llewellyn Worldwide, 2013)
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DEDICATIONS
This book is dedicated to those living voices of tarot,
Rachel Pollack, Mary K. Greer, and Lon Milo Duquette.
To Naomi Ozaniec for assistance in one sentence during the darkest
hour before the dawn.
To Barbara Moore, for encouragement and guidance beyond remit.
High Priestess, Thoth Tarot Deck
And as ever, and above all, this book is spiritually dedicated to
Antistita Astri Argentei
The Priestess of the Silver Star
She whose light leads the way to the Arcanum Arcanorum, the
Secret of
Secrets
Vos Vos Vos Vos Vos
V.V.V.V.V.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Illustrations from the Aquarian and New Palladini Tarot Decks are
reproduced by permission of U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Stamford,
CT 06902 USA. Copyrights © 1993 and 1996 respectively by U.S.
Games Systems, Inc. Further reproduction prohibited.
Illustrations from the Rider-Waite Tarot Deck®, known also as the
Rider Tarot and the Waite Tarot, are reproduced by permission of
U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Stamford, CT 06902 USA. Copyright ©
1971 by U.S. Games Systems, Inc. Further reproduction prohibited.
The Rider-Waite Tarot Deck is a registered trademark of U.S. Games
Systems, Inc.
Illustrations from Aleister Crowley Thoth Tarot are © copyright
AGMüller / O.T.O. (Ordo Templi Orientis). Further reproduction
prohibited.
Astrological and planetary keywords come permission of excellent
and ground-breaking astrologer, Lyn Birkbeck, author of The Instant
Astrologer, Understanding the Future, Divine Astrology, and The
Watkins Guide to Astrology amongst many other titles.
If I have missed a reference that requires acknowledgement, please
write to me c/o [email protected] and I will rectify this as
necessary in any subsequent editions. Many of the ideas here are
not ex nihilo and come from three decades of discussing, learning
and teaching tarot with exposure to almost every tarot book,
catalogue, pamphlet, and Inner Order original hand written paper
available. There is nothing new under the Sun, and if an idea I
consider original has been published prior in exactly the same
format, I will welcome references.
Some sections of this material have appeared previously in Tarot
Professionals Ltd courses, Tarosophist International magazine and
as ‘Tarosophy Papers’ on the Tarot Professionals website. Much of
this material has been generated during twenty years of teaching
and has been thoroughly tested. All material appears here for the
first time in publication in revised format, expanded and updated.
My thanks to Keren Happuch who provided the method and text for
the ‘Exploring the Natal Chart through Tarot’ section and Anne
Davies for assistance in the ‘legal’ section.
Photos of original ‘Gypsy Method’ courtesy of the Warburg Institute,
University of London, used with permission. As far as I can
ascertain, copyright on Gardner’s material is no longer applicable,
although their images here are copyright Tarot Professionals Ltd
(2010) and not to be reproduced in any media. All rights reserved.
