Dame Fortune's Wheel Tarot

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A Pictorial Key

By Paul Huson

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Dame Fortune's Wheel Tarot by Paul Huson reveals the earliest, traditional tarot card interpretations as collected by Jean-Baptiste Alliette, also known as Etteilla, a pioneering Parisian fortune-teller. This work deliberately avoids later occult embellishments by figures such as Mathers, Waite, or Crowley, offering readers clear, historically grounded meanings. The book features meticulous full-colour reproductions of Huson's original designs for all 79 cards, including an optional extra Significator card. It also provides comprehensive explanations of card symbolism, upright and reversed meanings, and detailed instructions for tarot layouts and divination.
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This book is ideal for tarot enthusiasts, historians, and readers interested in the authentic roots of tarot interpretation. It suits those who prefer traditional, scholarly approaches over the modern occultised decks, as well as practitioners wanting to explore lesser-known European tarot traditions.

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Dame Fortune's Wheel Tarot by Paul Huson illustrates for the first time the earliest, traditional tarot card interpretations collected by Jean-Baptiste Alliette, aka Etteilla, a Parisian fortune-teller. Unlike other modern decks, the images are unadorned by the occult speculations of Mathers, Waite, or Crowley. This book is a pictorial companion to the deck.

In addition to detailed descriptions of the cards' symbolism and significance—with both upright and reversed meanings—Dame Fortune's Wheel Tarot provides meticulous full-colour reproductions of Huson's original designs for all 79 cards, including an extra Significator card specified by Etteilla that may be used optionally, and full instructions for how to lay out the cards for divination.

Illustrates traditional tarot card interpretations unadorned by the occult speculations of Mathers, Waite, or Crowley.
Expounds on the meanings collected by Jean-Baptiste Alliette (aka Etteilla).
Provides meticulous full-colour reproductions of Huson's original card designs, including an extra Significator card.

Dame Fortune's Wheel Tarot is a rare example of a deck that illuminates a much ignored part of tarot history whilst being exquisitely attractive and easily readable. Indeed, it could be said that this is a significantly important tarot deck, as it is a bold illustration of serious tarot scholarship.

Every tarot reader, especially those who are exclusively familiar with the RWS, should at least look at these cards; both to see where tarot has come from and where it might have gone had things been different. In a sense, it is an illustration of the fragility of that which we call tradition. The Etteilla minors, once the cornerstone of tarot divination and still popular in Europe.

Review of the author's tarot deck on Aeclectic Tarot

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781881098423

Publisher: Witches' Almanac

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 November 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: Witches' Almanac

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 178.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 200

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About the Author

Paul Huson, a London-born author and artist, was initially trained in the Western Esoteric Tradition by Dion Fortune's Society of the Inner Light and later studied the doctrines of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and Stella Matutina under the aegis of Israel Regardie. He is the author of a number of well-known books on occult and allied subjects, among them the influential Mastering Witchcraft and Mystical Origins of the Tarot. Visit him at www.paulhuson.com.