Comments on: Charles Williams’ Use Of The Tarot

By: Aaron Taylor

Aaron Taylor — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:52:48 +0000

Bowsiodiz> Ah yes, a wonderfully enlightening comment. ALL it takes is the use of Google to determine that any given statement in this post is incorrect.

By: Bowsiodiz

Bowsiodiz — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:13:25 +0000

Maaaan, you know there is such thing in the web like search engine, http://google.com if you don’t, go there to understand why this post is bullshit

By: celticbreathe

celticbreathe — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:44:19 +0000

I started studying archetypes in relation to my spiritual studies about ten years ago, and got into relating them to tarot about five.. as well as studying other more ancient pictorial languages, from egyptian, coptic, paleo-hebraic.. even a lil ogham.. i find that rachel pollacks compendium of tarot to be the most informative.. I also like the deck she worked on with Rabbi Haindl Tarot deck very much so, artistically, and working with the major archetypes.. though I must admit the minor arcana is somewhat lacking for me..

I’m interested to peruse tomberg’s work.. and no longer find a disparate confrontationbetween tarot and my christian understanding.. but then I would consider myself a non literalist and a conservative liberal when it comes to such.. and there seems to be all too few of us..

By: FernSpike

FernSpike — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:35:28 +0000

Try as I may, I cannot play ‘Snap’ using Tarot cards.
The modern deck illustrated by David Palladini is worthy of note – a cross between Aubrey Beardsley and Alphonse Mucha.
Leviticus 19:31 says something about dabbling in the occult.

By: ochlophobist

ochlophobist — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:13:20 +0000

What of Meditations on the Tarot by Valentin Tomberg?
(http://www.amazon.com/Meditations-Tarot/dp/1585421618/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/176-1178473-8795862?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232910475&sr=8-1)
Have you read it, and if so, do you have any thoughts regarding it?

I read this book years ago, in part because of the praise given to it by von Balthasar.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:39:33 +0000

I'm a great fan of Charles Williams's books, and The greater trumps in particular, but I can's see the Rider-Waite cars as particularly Christian, and the Fool, in particular, doesn't fit with the image created by Williams in his book. I sometimes use Tarot cards to illustrate points in blog posts, here, for example, but I think the traditional cards have far more Christian symbolism.

By: Aaron Taylor

Aaron Taylor — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:53:40 +0000

Very nice post! I too am interested in the Christian symbolism of the Major Arcana (not to mention Williams’s writings!). I used to have a book on the Tarot and Kabbalah, but I gave it away to a non-Christian, New Agey friend because I thought it might help her have a greater appreciation of Biblical wisdom.

I think my personal favourite of Williams’s novels is ‘War in Heaven’, but ‘Descent Into Hell’ seems like it’s probably the best-written one.

Btw, are you familiar with Milorad Pavić’s book, ‘Last Love in Constantinople’? It’s a novel intended to be read according to a shuffling of the Major Arcana.