Masonic

Jean Bouchard's Masonic Tarot through the French house Grimaud renders the arcana in abstract geometry and soft tones, and the archive reviewer's testimony names the design's success: abstraction that gives the imagination a lot to work with, Strength's woman and lion still legible inside the geometric reduction. Freemasonry's symbolic language, the square, compass and temple, shares deep ancestry with tarot's esoteric century, and Bouchard's deck works that kinship visually, lodge geometry as arcana. Grimaud's imprimatur places it in the French tradition's main line, the house of the Ancien Tarot de Marseille lending its authority to an esoteric experiment. Abstract decks read by evocation, and the reviewer's experience is the method: the forms suggest, the reader completes. It suits Masonic readers and the lodge-curious, French-deck collectors, abstract-tarot readers alongside the Colquhoun's wilder pole, and students of the craft's visual culture. The conspiracy-minded are gently reminded that the secrets here are geometric, which was always the more interesting kind.