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Tarot of the Mystic Spiral
Initiatory path inviting transcendence and quantum leap of awareness.
creator unknown · 2011
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The little white book announces an initiatory path inviting a quantum leap of awareness, and the archive reviewer took the sentence seriously, which is the right way into the Tarot of the Mystic Spiral: a Lo Scarabeo deck organized around the spiral as initiation's oldest diagram, consciousness ascending by revolution rather than straight line. The spiral does honest structural work, the same territory revisited at higher turns, which is a better model of actual growth than the ladder most initiatory decks imply.
The deck reads best as its book frames it, a path rather than a fortune-engine: draws locate the reader on the turning, repetition read as ascent rather than stagnation. That framing rescues the new age vocabulary from its own inflation; quantum leaps aside, the spiral's psychology is sound. It suits contemplative readers who track their own development, initiatory-structure students comparing the catalog's paths, and spiral-symbol devotees. Readers who want daily-life particulars should uncoil toward a more domestic deck.
From the archive
An excerpt from a review at the Aeclectic Tarot archive, in the original reviewer's voice.
From the little white book, "The symbolism of the images in this deck depicts an initiatory path that invites us to transcend ordinary reality and take a quantum leap of awareness." That very sentence implies deeper thinking and Tarot of...
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