Publisher's Synopsis
Paul Huson's DAME FORTUNE'S WHEEL TAROT illustrates, for the first time, the earliest, traditional tarot card interpretations collected by Jean-Baptiste Alliette, aka Etteilla, a Parisian fortune-teller. Unlike other modern deck, the images are unadorned by the occult speculations of Mathers, Waite or Crowley. This book is a pictorial companion to the deck. In addition to detailed descriptions of the cards' symbolism and significance - with both upright and reversed meanings - DAME FORTUNE'S WHEEL TAROT provides meticulous full-colour reproductions of Huson's original designs for all 79 cards - including an extra Significator card specified by Etteilla that may be used optionally - and full instructions for how to lay out the cards for divination. -Illustrates traditional tarot card interpretations unadorned by the occult speculations of Mathers, Waite or Crowley. -Expounds on the meanings collected by Jean-Baptiste Alliette (aka Etteilla) -Provides meticulous full-colour reproductions of Huson's original card designs, including an extra Significator card "Dame Fortunes Wheel Tarot is a rare example of a deck that throws light upon a much ignored part of tarot history whilst being exquisitely attractive and easily readable. Indeed it could be said that this is a significantly important tarot deck, it is a bold illustration of serious tarot scholarship. . . .Every tarot reader, especially those who are exclusively familiar with the RWS, should at least look at these cards; both to see where tarot has come from and where it might have gone had things been different. In a sense it is an illustration of the fragility of that which we call tradition. The Etteilla minors, once the corner stone of tarot divination and still popular in Europe, " Review of the author's tarot deck on Aeclectic Tarot
