Servants of the Light
Richly symbolic out-of-print gem with comprehensive spiritual teaching book.
by A. Clark, Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, J Gill · 1991
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This deck and book set, currently out of print, richly deserves to be recognised for the gem it is, and brought back into production and common usage. The book is clear and lucid and very helpful in teaching the use of the deck, but really skates over the surface of the symbolic richness of the deck. I originally read the book, then spent years becoming familiar with the deck on a much more comprehensive level than the book allowed, then the deck and I parted company for a few years. We have just recently met up again, and it is every bit as delightful and penetrating as I remember. It is arranged in the usual Tarot structure of a Major Arcana of 22 cards, and a Minor Arcana in four suits: the suit formerly known as Discs, Pentacles or Coins here is called Spheres, Cups have been changed to Crescents, Wands to Staves, and Swords to Weapons. In addition, Staves and Weapons have swapped Elements, with Staves being Air and Weapons being Fire. Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki was very active in Thelemic circles, and this strongly influences the symbolism of the deck. Many of the meanings of the Minor cards in particular are closer to Thoth meanings than Rider-Waite meanings – but they don’t re
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