I Tarocchi delle Stelle (Tarocco Delle Stelle, La Porta Celeste) — Таро Звезд

МБК значения: I Tarocchi delle Stelle (Tarocco Delle Stelle, La Porta Celeste) — Таро Звезд

Текст-описание Старших Арканов карт таро  по системе Папюса:

The Tarot of the Bohemians

by Papus; tr. A. P Morton, [1896]
A detailed study of the esoteric roots of the Tarot.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/tob/tob14.htm

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The Porta Celeste; I Tarocchi delle Stelle (or Tarot of the Stars) is a beautiful and esoterically rich pack, being the fourth awe-inspiring Tarot  by Giorgio M. S. Tavaglione, a modern Italian one-man Tarot renaissance.  All of his Tarot decks were  published in the early 1970’s. The Tarot of the Stars stands out among his others  (the Stairs of Gold, Enoil  Gavat, and the Sybiline)  because it provides the mainstream Continental Tarots with an answer to the fully-illustrated packs of the English-model packs that so proliferate today.

The Tarot of the Stars has pictures on every card, a preference of many contemporary Tarot users.  This pack also contains copious symbolism integrated into his designs, particularly the astronomical information illustrated above each image.  The main difficulties  with this Tarot are that it is out of print right now, and all the support materials are written in an archaic Italian dialect, very difficult to translate because it is loaded with magical and alchemical double entendres.

Tavaglione’s Stairs of Gold Tarot fills in the missing pieces, providing a wonderful hand-lettered  booklet in English (from which we have taken the descriptions of the individual cards in both decks)  detailing a wealth of traditional correspondences including the Hebrew spelling and zodiacal degrees  of the Shemhamemphoresh — the 72 Angels of the Zodiac.

The art of the Tarot of the Stars is rightfully classed as “comic-book style”, and is sometimes extremely inventive to make its point. Witness the 6 of cups, wherein the protagonist is both male and female, both naked and dressed, both looking back and stepping forward across the stream of time simultaneously – symbolizing the linked-opposite meanings of “past” and “future” quite excellently. This deck makes more blatant magical and alchemical references than any of his others (in what looks like a nod to the Thoth Tarot), but it also ties the divinatory meanings even closer to the Continental tarot tradition. 

Of Tavaglione’s decks, these two  represent his mature command of the European Esoteric astro-alphanumeric correspondences. As such,  this Tarot is identical with Papus, Wirth, and Cagliostro — all conforming with the scholarship of Eliphas Levi. Happily, all this tradition and scholarship is overlaid with the lush sensibility and  intuitive insight of this unsung (in America) Tarot prodigy.