Grail
Arthurian Grail legend mapped to personal spiritual seeking and self-discovery.
by John Matthews, Giovanni Caselli · 2007
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The Grail Tarot: A Templar Vision retells the Grail legend and relates the quest for the sacred Christian relic to our desire to understand the puzzle of our own lives. Author John Matthews, who worked on the Arthurian Tarot, has teamed up with artist Giovanni Caselli, perhaps best known for his illustrations in the Rider-Waite redrawing, the Sharman-Caselli Tarot. The Renaissance-style imagery feels authentic and the majors have an unusual feature when laid out side-by-side in a row, they form a continuous frieze, an echo of artworks of the Middle Ages, almost like a comic strip of the Tarot journey. The Magdalene (High Priestess) gazes in awe at The Gnostic Christ (Magician), offering him the chalice with her right hand. Sheba and Solomon (Empress and Emperor) sit under a pillared portico. Its quite cleverly done its not apparent from each individual major that they are part of a joined image, but joined together each background flows seamlessly to the next. This can also be incorporated into readings, by selecting certain cards to arrange into the story. The suits are represented by the four Grail Hallows of stone, sword, lance and vessel. The Stone is the aspect of
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