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Newsletter issue #91
The Fool’s Journey
The History, Art, & Symbolism of the Tarot

by Robert M. Place

  '[...] trump cards are unique to the Tarot and are designed to express the universal human progression to spiritual fulfillment. Through the trumps, the Fool encounters signs of inspiration, suffering, and death on his way to the final trump the World. A mystical vision of the purified soul, the World, is represented by a beautiful nude surrounded by symbols representing the throne of God. When the soul dances on the throne of God, time and death are conquered, and the Anima Mundi (the Soul of the World) is revealed. [...]'

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New book by Robert M. Place

As shown by this month's Newsletter, Robert Place has a new book out, arising from the exhibition curated earlier this year in California. For more information, read this month's Newsletter article.

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Important 72 page tarot history book

In case you missed it, I omitted to mention in last month's Newsletter that there's an important new contribution to be added to one's tarot history library: Explaining the Tarot: two Italian Renaissance Essays on the meaning of the tarot pack edited, translated and commented by Ross Caldwell, Thierry Depaulis and Marco Ponzi.

For more details, see the box in the left-hand column.

Convention and Tarot Trip

Expect some details for the 2011 Convention to be on the site in October. At the moment, the only things I can mention are that it is expected to take place over the weekend between the 23rd-25th of September in Ste Suzanne, France (in the same town in which J-C. Flornoy lives).

For those interested, this will be immediately followed by a Tarot Trip into northern Italy currently being organised by Arnell Ando. Please contact her for further details.

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Online Reading from Tarotlore

A reminder, for those interested, that online spreads are now available from tarotlore on a page included within our site (a permanent link is included in the left-hand column of this page):

> association.tarotstudies.org/readings.html

BEST SITE nominations

Thankyou to everyone who contributed their nominations. In this still very rapid expansion and always difficult to see what developments are occuring well worth a look. The list of sites will be on the left-hand side within a few days.

Honeycomb Tarot - some cards still missing

A number of people have contacted me requesting a little more time... so cards still not received by the end of September will be re-allocated. If you wish to complete a card, do let me know. There's likely to be five or six available.

Please also note that I shall not have computer access for about 2-3 weeks as of approx. 10th September. If you send an email and don't hear from me around that time, that'll be the reason!

Until next month, enjoy!!!

Jean-Michel David

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