Hi everyone! I hope you are doing well! While I was researching about RWS and the Thoth Tarot I came across the Etteilla Tarot. I find it very interesting, and I was wondering if any of you use it or have used it? What are your thoughts and experience with it? Also have you read Etteilla´s books about it? Thank you!
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Etteilla Tarot
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I haven't delved into the Etteilla Tarot yet nor his works. I have been focused on Tarot before Etteilla though, the Visconti-Sforza Tarot, the Sola Busca Tarot, the Marseilles Tarot and others all from the late 14th-16th century. However it is claimed that these were all pre-divinatory card decks (even though there was a text that explicitly taught divination using ordinary cards as they existed at the time published around the 15th century). There is an actual divinatory tarot deck just prior to Etteilla - - which Robert Place reconstructed thee years ago. Although I do use other decks for divination, in a way I'm working my way to to the Etteilla Tarot.
This is so interesting, thank you for sharing! I haven't heard about that deck, I'll definetly check it out.
When you get to the Etteilla Tarot I recommend reading , she does an amazing job giving an extensive introduction, presenting the different versions and her own recreation of it.