The WILLIAM BLAKE TAROT of the Creative Imagination, Revised Edition

Buryn, Ed

ISBN 10: 0916804003 / ISBN 13: 9780916804008

Published by TAROT, Nevada City CA, 2010

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First published in 1995 and long out-of-print, this newly revised edition offers better color rendition, improved details, and many stylistic changes. This amazing card deck presents Blake*s art and mythology in the form of a workable tool for divination and creative inspiration. Not sold in bookstores. Box is 3-1/4 x 4-3/4, containing 80 cards in color, 32-pp interretive booklet. Color-illus box, shrink-wrapped. Seller Inventory # 18796

Bibliographic Details

Title: The WILLIAM BLAKE TAROT of the Creative ...

Publisher: TAROT, Nevada City CA

Publication Date: 2010

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New.

Edition: 1st printing.

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Synopsis:

This tarot deck represents something really new for Blake - a way to take him home and 'play' with him, to get acquainted with him as never before possible. It is an attempt to free Will Blake from intellectual bondage. Unlike textbooks and critical studies, the William Blake Tarot presents his ideas and images in a manner that is easy to absorb, and a lot more fun. Most of all, the Blake Tarot is a portable spiritual toolkit that you can use every day to creatively solve problems, to ponder personal issues, and gain meaningful insights into some of life's mysteries. It enables you to put William Blake's amazing art to practical use, rather than just passively admire it. Combining the 'handson' accessibility of Tarot cards with the imaginative insights of William Blake is like putting wings on an angel: now let the spirit fly! The William Blake Tarot consists of a set of 23 archetypal cards called Triumphs, plus a set of 56 Creative Process tarot cards in four suits named Painting, Science, Music, and Poetry - which are Blake's four primal expressions of the imagination. In conventional Tarot, the archetypal cards are called the Major Arcana and the suits are called the Minor Arcana. These terms are avoided here because 'arcana' means 'secrets', which do not apply to the modern concept of Tarot or to William Blake. While the Tarot may have been considered occult or secret in the past, modern Tarot seeks to share its wisdom with everyone. Because William Blake and Tarot are natural partners, this tarot deck 'marries' them - an act of imagination in the service of imagination. This is befitting because most of Blake's own works were reinterpretations of the works of other poets and artists. Now, William Blake himself is reinterpreted here through the medium of Tarot.