Golden Dawn TTarot Deck

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One spread is given in the LWB (Little White Book) for use by the reader, and it is simply termed the "Fifteen Card method of Tarot Divination". The Golden Dawn Magical Tarot deck comes in a small compact cardboard box, the cards contained in a separate second box from the instruction book. It gives very brief meanings of the cards, but more importantly it gives a very interesting set of suggestions for how to read the cards in a spread. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

The Golden Dawn Tarot “must be viewed as a pedagogical tool, intended to lead to a deep-rooted understanding of the human condition. Crowley’s Thoth deck owes its existence to Lady Freida Harris, wife of a Member of Parliament and a member of one of Crowley’s occult organizations.From there new concerns might arise, but they’ll come through more directly without the interference of confusion or distraction. Illustrated by Robert Wang, under the direction of Israel Regardie, the style of the artwork is a bit unaccomplished compared to some (though not all) Golden-Dawn wannabees that have come after it. On the other side of the central line, I have the Priestess and the 7 of Cups (the 7 of the heart instead of the head).

Robert Wang has faithfully rendered in authentic detail each card of The Golden Dawn Tarot deck based upon the esoteric notebooks of MacGregor Mathers. For the most part, the symbols and figures used in this deck will be familiar to those readers using traditional decks. The card back design features the phrase “Konx Om Pax,” attributed to Mathers, which means “Light in Extension. The ten numbers of the pip cards were associated with the Sephiroth on the tree of life, as in Levi, and were also associated with the 36 decans of the horoscope wheel and the 72 cabalistic angels. Said Westcott: “The student will do wisely to consult his intuition, if he have no adept instructor, as to the true attribution of” The Magician card, whether it’s Aleph or the Beth Path on the Tree of Life (and if it’s Beth, then that would designate The Fool card as Aleph).As part of the training students had to create their own tarot deck to demonstrate understanding of the complex systems. In The Golden Dawn Tarot, Wang is using the symbolic framework of the Inner Tradition, formulated by Mathers. There are also less well-known members of the HOGD, such as one of the founders, William Wynn Wescott, whose work also forms the basis for a deck. The Court descriptions are about three pages long and include I Ching as well as tattvas, decante influences and elemental influences, geomancy, and a divinatory paragraph. The design of this deck is thus attributed to the notes and writings of Mathers, with the original paintings for the deck done by Moina MacGregor Mathers, who was herself an artist from the Slade School of Art in London.

No longer associated with the SRIA after 1902, Mathers continued to oversee a few temples until his death, when his wife, Moina, assumed supervision. While valuable, that kind of regular inner temperature check can lead to over-consideration and unnecessary extra inputs. And why is the middle horizontal path associated with Strength/Lust and not Justice/Adjustment for the deck creators that have Justice/Adjustment as Key VIII? Etsy assumes no responsibility for the accuracy, labelling, or content of sellers' listings and products. William Frankland was a British astrologer who was active in London during the period between the two World Wars.The major arcana are very striking, but the minor arcana do not have enough detail to be easily distinguishable for beginners. In every pip card, divine hands, and only the hands, are revealed, presenting to you the respective suit relics.