Tarot Emblemata
Tarot Emblemata
Tarot Emblemata
Tarot Emblemata
Tarot Emblemata
Tarot Emblemata
Tarot Emblemata
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Tarot Emblemata

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“This deck teaches us to look beyond the surface, to engage with a gaze of awe, admiration, and reverence.”
—Laetitia Barbier, author of Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archive
 
Tarot Emblemata is a magical and mystical tarot deck based on the 1551 book of emblems by Claude Paradin. Renaissance emblems are intimate illustrations with accompanying mottos that allegorically and symbolically express sentiments, concepts, societal concerns, and parables. These Renaissance emblems are a didactic genre of interpretive art and, within them, author and creator Nitasia Roland has discovered that their enigmatic imagery and “mottos” correspond dynamically and align perfectly with the seventy cards of the Major and Minor Arcana of the tarot.
 
Among the many ancient and iconic images this deck portrays—plumes, helmets, swords, gemstone rings, coins, wands, clouds, wreaths, flowers, animals, and trees—Roland sees the evolution of tarot’s wands, swords, cups, and coins, as well as evocative glimmers of the Major Arcana archetypes. Both secular and religious, Renaissance emblems were meant to crystallize virtue or vice and cover every sphere of early modern knowledge: ethics, natural philosophy, politics, science, religion, love, war, and everyday life, very much in the same way that modern tarot imagery provides insight and clarity today.
 
The Tarot Emblemata deck will help readers expand on their path of embodiment, spiritual gnosis, inspired destiny, and empowerment. The accompanying guidebook presents tarot interpretations and elucidations on the symbolism of the emblems. Tarot Emblemata features a ribbon lift and gilded cards. It is an accessible deck for beginners and those familiar with the Rider-Waite-Smith system, while more experienced readers will enjoy a new and refreshing perspective.
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Artist

Nitasia Roland

Cards

83

Guidebook

Included

Pages

192

Nitasia Roland

Nitasia Roland is a writer of esoteric nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. She received her MFA in creative writing and is the founder of the indie publisher Urania Press. For her interdisciplinary master's degree, she studied English, poetry, printmaking, photography, and design. Nitasia works from home as an artist, independent researcher, editor, and tarot-deck creator. She resides in Maine.

Laetitia Barbier

French-born Laetitia Barbier is an independent scholar, as well as a professional tarot reader and teacher. She earned a Bachelor's Degree in Art History from La Sorbonne University Paris in 2009. Laetitia has worked with Morbid Anatomy since 2012 as a programming director, head librarian, and occasional curator.

Her book Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archive was published in 2021 with a foreword by Rachel Pollack. She is the author of the Tiger Tarot Guide Book, a unique Tarot deck by symbolist artist Lori Field. Laetitia has lectured, taught, and read cards for various cultural institutions, such as Greenwood Cemetery, Fotografiska NY, the College of Psychic Studies in London, and the New York Public Library. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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