Golden Dawn TTarot Deck

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There is a companion book for this deck, written by Robert Wang ("An Introduction To the Golden Dawn Tarot") that is very helpful in working with this deck. I’m not one for dogma, and I often find myself discovering inconsistencies that don’t have obvious answers from people who are better read on the subject. For the Major Arcana the card detail is around five pages long and contains numerology relating to the card number including Golden Dawn references, gematria, the Hebrew letter, Kabbalistic association, psychological expression, a card description, divinatory meaning paragraph and a mantra for each card. By the mid-1890s, the Golden Dawn was well established in Great Britain, with over one hundred members from every class of Victorian society. The trumps were assigned to the pathways on the Tree of life, and some were given unique designs and names.

The book provides about 12 spreads including the Opening of The Key and a couple of other large spreads which I will work through. In every pip card, divine hands, and only the hands, are revealed, presenting to you the respective suit relics.

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There are some very interesting aspects to this deck, such as the appearance of luminescence around certain figures or objects (the upper body and head of the Fool; the entire body of the Magician, High Priestess; the head and scepter of the Empress, and the bird behind her; the head of the Emperor; the head and upper body of the Hierophant; the head and lamp of the Hermit; all of the Wheel of Fortune; the head of Justice; the head of the Hanged Man; all of Temperance; the Star; the three figures on the Moon; the male and female figures in Judgment; the four corner glyphs and the center figure in the World; the figures in the Court Cards). This short-lived group attracted artists and intellectuals and became the touchstone for all subsequent magical lodges in the English-speaking world.So it’s fun to see a deck that embraces that older tradition but isn’t a Marseille (or similar) deck. For example, in the suit of Wands, the Ace has a vibrant green background, but the 2, 3, and 4 have a deep red background, the 5, 6, 7 have yellow, and the 8, 9, and 10 have navy blue. The issue of historical accuracy will always arise when we are reviving decks from a hundred years ago, but we have to be critical about accepting everything unchallenged. The premise here was less about his own original art, as you’ll see in his later Jungian Tarot, but rather, to recreate the works of S.