> In article rcn.net>, whitroth@rcn.com
> says...

>> Dragging this to something actually relevant....
>>
>> I'm really not into the Tarot, though I do know something, having read
>> what
>> many folks I respect consider the last word on Tarot, the Case book from,
>> what, 1911?
>>
>> Anyway, there are a number of decks I think work, other than
>> the "traditional" ones (and yes, we know the artist of some). Let's see,
>> there's the one my old friend Mary Hanson-Roberts did (and I know she
>> worked on those for *years* - as in, she'd been working on them for eight
>> years in the mid-seventies, and they weren't published until '85. I,
>> personally, rather like the *unbowdlerized* Yaeger deck; the friend that
>> showed me hers has the only one I've ever seen (bowdlerized, as in it
>> looks
>> like someone's 11-yr-old used a crayon to draw boxer shorts on the
>> figures).
>>
>> Others' preferences?

>
> try the "tarots de marseilles".
> we are fortunate enough in europe to have an alchemical tradition which
> immunizes us against the lowlife freemasonic occultism under which the
> anglo-saxons are unfortunately... castrated.

> one of my fav tarot de marseilles decks :
> http://en.camoin.com
>
> seriously, the usual english tarots listing is appalling.
>
>

>> mark "also has the Fannish Tarot"
>>
>>

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