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Summary: Use the Tarot of the Mystic Spiral to seek the underlying
patterns of your life and of the universe. As you gain knowledge
and control over your life, expand your understanding of the world
and how it works. In-Depth Review: This is a deck to study and
savor. It is not one to "get" or to "understand" in the sense of
seeing a clear pattern or system. For this is a deck that examines
math and physics and mysteries. There is the idea of a spiral...no,
of many spirals...that may be all echoes of some great spiral that
resonates through all of existence. How do spirals manifest in
architecture, mathematics, nature, human history, and mythology? Is
it the shape and energy of the spiral that unites everything that
is? This deck attempts to explore that idea. In that sense, this
deck is both a Tarot deck, useful for reading and divining your own
future, and a consciousness-expanding tool, created to challenge
your ideas about life, the universe, and, well, everything. One
reason this deck is hard to explain is because while there is a
unifying theme...that of the spiral...there is no rigid system such
as the Swords being all mathematical spirals, Cups being all
spirals in mythology, and Pentacles being all spirals found in
nature. No, nothing quite that simple and straightforward. Part of
the magic of the spiral is that it makes your head spin. The
spiral, whether in mathematics or in art, has within it an element
of mystery and magic. And so it is truer to the theme to resist our
left brain desire to create a rigid system. So let's simply take a
sampling of a few cards to give you taste of the wonders that
await. Temperance is the archangel Raphael who brings health and
harmony to divided energies that pass like souls from one container
to anther in the form of a double helix. Opposites are neutralized
when balanced. The 5 of Cups shows the melancholy brought on by
loss and manifests itself as the loss of control over energies that
descend the spiral staircase down into the abyss. The 5 of
Pentacles features ants carrying coins along a Moebius ring. The 7
of Pentacles shows Stonehenge in the background with crop circles
in the foreground. The Knave of Swords is Archimedes studying the
spirals at the siege of Syracuse and stopping a soldier who is
about to kill him (the pen, or in this case the compass, is
mightier than the sword!). The King of Swords is Bernoulli standing
by the stone of his own tomb with the Golden Spiral and lemniscate
curve. His mind and its gifts lasted far longer than the body that
encased it. The Tarot of the Mystic Spiral is certainly a mystical
trip. For those who are willing to let go of preconceptions about
Tarot and who already have (or wish to cultivate) a love for the
mystery that is this great universe, this deck can take you places
no other deck can. Deck Attributes Name of deck: Tarot of the
Mystic Spiral
Publisher: Lo Scarabeo
ISBN: 9780738732381
Creator's name: Giovanni Pelosini
Brief biography of creator: Giovanni Pelosini is eclectic teacher
and writer in various fields including Tarot, astrology, symbolism,
yoga, theatre and cinema.
Artist's name: Giuseppe Palumbo
Brief biography of artist: Palumbo is an artist who has also drawn
the Afro-Brazilian Tarot. He has worked on various comic books
including the well known "Martin Mystere" series.
Name of accompanying booklet: Tarot of the Mystic Spiral
Number of pages ofbooklet: 63, 14 in English
Author of booklet: Giovanni Pelosini
Available in a boxed kit?: No
Magical Uses: None
Reading Uses: General
Tarot, Divination Deck, Other: Tarot
Does it follow Rider-Waite-Smith Standard?: Yes
Does it have extra cards?: No
Why was deck created?: To explore the idea of the spiral throughout
the physical world, spiritual worlds, and human history.
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