Crowley Thoth Tarot Deck Standard

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Note: The numbered cards (Pips) are not described in such a way – they are almost in the traditional Marseille style by using some additional symbols.

Note: The Pips are not illustrated as such – they closely follow the Marseille tradition of using icons only with a few additions.Lady Harris for the 1944 London gallery showings of thepaintings. One is based on Crowley’s writings. The second washer own personal interpretation of the cards. The negative disintegration of structures and imperative, ambiguous in goals, illusory fantasies, childish, irresponsible. fined to Court circles and to the Gypsies; it is from the discov-ery of printing in Europe in the middle of the 15th centurythat we may date the wider and more popular dissemination ofthe cards. By the time of the Renaissance they are generallyknown: “Le Tarau” is one of the games which, according toRabelais, was played by Gargantua; Michel Angelo is said tohave invented a game in Sienna played with the Tarot for thepurpose of teaching arithmetic. This story, even if apocryphal,is of interest as it emphasizes the numerical properties of thecards; each of the twenty-two Trumps is ascribed to a letter of CUPS ~KNIGHT OF CUPS. The fiery part of water. A man with com-mitment issues. Amiable but passive. Attracted to excitement.Unsustainable enthusiasm. Sensitive but shallow. Influenced:Sensual and idle, untruthful, prone to depression and drugabuse.QUEEN OF CUPS. The watery part of water. An observer,dreamy, tranquil, poetic, imaginative, kind yet passive.Impressionable to other card influences. PRINCE OF CUPS. The airy part of water. A young man of sub-tlety, secret violence, craft. An artist whose calm surface masksintense passion. Ruthless in his aims. Ambitious and obtuse.PRINCESS OF CUPS. The earthy part of water. A young woman,infinitely gracious, sweet, voluptuous, gentle, kind, romanticand dreamy. Indolent, selfish and luxurious woman.ACE OF CUPS: The Root of the Powers of Water. Fertility.Productivity. Beauty. Pleasure and happiness.

CARD 1 The querent and the nature of the problem andprimary influences. A court card (knight, queen, prince,princess) in this position sometimes refers to a dominantindividual or influence in the querent’s situation.CARDS 2 and 3 in conjunction with CARD 1, are the key The Suit of Disks represents the element of Earth and relates to material possessions, practicality, and stability. It symbolizes our connection to the physical world and our ability to create abundance. Key cards in this suit include: which had been omitted in the original printing, has beencopied from the paintings and is included in this new edition.Mr. William Breeze helped locate the two essays written by of books have been written about them. They were used by the“Bohemians” or Gypsies for telling fortunes, and in a mutilat-ed form are used for playing various games of cards in allLatin countries in both hemispheres. But these are degrada-tions of their true use in noble contemplation of the SecretEnergies of Nature.Writings of British mystic Aleister Crowley on occult practices influenced the development of Neopaganism, various religious movements that arose chiefly in the United Kingdom and the United States in the late 1900s and that combine worship of pagan nature deities, particularly of the earth, with benign witchcraft. THE TWENTY-TWO TRUMPS1 0. THE FOOL is Air or Vacuum or Puissant Innocence. Heholds the male element of fire, the female element of water,the sword of air, and the disc of earth. He is the Green Man ofSpring, the great Fool of the Celts, Daluah and Parsifal. He isalso Zeus Arrhenothelus, Dionysus Zagreus, Bacchus Diphuesand Baphomet.2 I. THE MAGICIAN OR JUGGLER. Mercury, who is Wisdom.Will and Word, by whom the world is created, symbolises thefluidic basis of all transmission of activity. Behind him andthrough him is the Ape, Hanuman, which is a Hindu concep-tion. The Egyptian counterpart, Thoth, is also always followedby the Cynocephalus Ape.3 II. THE PRIESTESS. She is Isis, the eternal virgin, and againshe is Artemis. It is for this reason she is clothed in the lumi-nous veil of light, light being viewed not as the manifestation,but as the veil, of the spirit4 III. THE EMPRESS. She is seated in traditional posture. Thisposture represents salt, the inactive principle of nature. Thelotus typifies the feminine or passive power. The Bees on the

The minors do not contain illustrated scenes as in the Rider Waite Smith style, they are however highly illustrated. Harris’s pips evoke the intention of the card clearly, most meanings being similar to the Rider Waite Smith. For example while the RWS Two of Wands shows a man holding the world in his hand as he overlooks his kingdom; the Thoth Two of Wands (titled Dominion) shows us two Tibetan Djores crossed in front of burning flames, symbols of great power and authority. The glyphs for Mars and Aries appear on the card, telling us the card belongs to that sign and planet, which reinforces the meaning of strength, courage, pride etc…ancient Egypt was begun by Count de Gebelin, who in 1782completed the publication of Le Monde Primitif. The readyacceptance of this theory was in part due to the fact that theTarot was long-known to have been in the hands of theGypsies, who had reached Europe in the early 15th centuryand were believed to have come from Egypt. From this falsesupposition the English word “gypsy” derives; the French“Bohémien” comes from the old French word “Boem” mean-ing “sorcerer.” The Gypsies so generally used the Tarots fordivination that the cards become known as the Tarot of the Crowley additionally played chess, painted, experimented with drugs, criticized society and practiced astrology, hedonism, bisexuality. Crowley also claimed a Freemason, but people dispute the regularity of his initiations with the United Grand Lodge of England. The positive disintegration of structures and confinement, altruistic idealism, infinite imagination, perception of the universe.