Alchemical Tarot: Renewed

In 1994 the original Alchemical Tarot first appeared, then spent years out of print, available only through an art print edition the archive itself calls elegant and, in the same breath, expensive. Robert M. Place and Leisa ReFalo brought it back into standard circulation through Hermes Publication, and the oneLine description confirms the result: a highly anticipated reissue, closing a gap readers had been waiting on. Alchemical symbolism is one of tarot's oldest neighbors: both traditions share a vocabulary of transformation, dissolution, and a kind of gold reached through process rather than luck. Place's version has apparently held enough of a following that its years out of print were noticed rather than quietly forgotten. It suits readers drawn to alchemy as a symbolic system in its own right, and anyone who wanted the 1994 original but missed their chance the first time. Readers without an existing interest in alchemical symbolism may find it one more system to learn on top of tarot's own.