Looking forward to meeting Mary Greer, Kim Arnold and everyone else at the 100th Anniversary of the Rider Waite tarot deck tomorrow afternoon. I am booked to speak, not so much on the RWS deck – there will be too many experts who know far more than me on the subject.
What I will be talking about is the incredible influence of the Golden Dawn on the tarot, ritual magic, Wicca, Paganism, you name it in the esoteric world.
The GD has had its fair share of sex, drugs and scandal, not to mention the schisms and internecine wars that continue right up to the present day.
In all of this lay the birth of AE Waite’s Tarot deck, so I will try to put things into some kind of context, and assess what we know about the deck in this light, and where we might see new directions.
Oh, and there will be one lucky winner of my new co-written book, Beyond the Celtic Cross. For everyone else I will be bringing copies…
See you tomorrow.
