Dame Fortune's Wheel
Etteilla-tradition deck blending ancient imagery with 18th-century cartomancy.
creator unknown · Lo Scarabeo · 2009
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Dame Fortunes Wheel, created by Paul Huson and Published by Lo Scarabeo, is a tarot deck that blends ancient images with Etteillas 18th century cartomantic tradition and creates a deck that is enthralling, readable and beautiful. Paul Huson, long known as a writer and scholar of esoteric subjects, has stepped back in time beyond the fin de siecle occultists of the Golden Dawn to explore and illustrate the oldest extant tarot traditions. In doing so he has produced a deck that is a practical example of tarot scholarship at its best. Huson has also produced an extended booklet to go with the deck, which goes into some detail about the images, symbols and iconography he chose to use and which can be downloaded free from his web site. Essentially the deck is arranged in the familiar manner, it has 79 cards, which comprise the usual pack plus the addition of an optional significator card that can be used or ignored according to the readers taste and desire. The 78 cards of the standard deck are structured along traditional lines; Justice is VIII and Fortitude is XI; The Fool is unnumbered and Death unnamed. The trumps are easily distinguished from the suits, and the suits from each o
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