{"id":9997,"date":"2014-04-16T17:06:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T22:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/2014\/04\/13\/"},"modified":"2014-04-16T17:06:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T22:06:48","slug":"the-daemon-tarot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=9997","title":{"rendered":"The Daemon Tarot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calling Ariana Osborne\u2019s \u201cThe Daemon Tarot\u201d a tarot is giving it far too little credit.  Osborne based the set of 69 cards on Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy\u2019s \u201cDictionnaire Infernal\u201d.  As you would suspect, that\u2019s French for \u201cInfernal Dictionary\u201d.  The book itself, we learn from Osborne\u2019s introduction, has a bit of history itself.  The Dictionary was originally published in France in the 1818 when Collin de Plancy was a demonologist.  The book at that time was filled with magic and the idea of using skepticism instead of superstition when making decisions.  Then in the 1830\u2019s Collin de Plancy converted to Catholicism and in 1863 a sixth edition of the Dictionary was published that reflected his new beliefs.  Essentially, demons became demonic.<\/p>\n<p>Enter Osborne who gets her hands on a copy of this late edition of the Dictionary.  She comments that the art, done by Luis Breton, really speaks to her because although the creatures portrayed \u201care clearly inhuman, their strangeness does not make them appear terrible.\u201d  And Osborne sharing that really struck me, and that\u2019s when I was ready to look at these cards with fresh, unbiased eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Like all tarot sets, each card has its own entry in the companion book.  The entry is broken into three sections: Annotation provides information on the subject and includes research from the Dictionary and more, Inspiration shows Osborne\u2019s interpretations and insights into the subject of each card, and Divination, since the cards don\u2019t follow a traditional tarot deck format this section gives focused meanings that can be used in spreads.  Osborne suggests using a one card draw or a six-card spread that she describes with this deck.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10002\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10002\" style=\"width: 582px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/daemon-tarot-set.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/daemon-tarot-set.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"700\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10002\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10002\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ariana Osborne's The Daemon Tarot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With all the information contained in the 142 page book, and the classic artwork on the 69 card set, \u201cThe Daemon Tarot\u201d is an excellent reference tool, not just a divination tool.  At a suggested retail price of $19.95 everyone should own it.  Seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Ariana Osborne&#8217;s &#8220;The Daemon Tarot&#8221; you may think you&#8217;re getting a tarot deck, but in fact you&#8217;re getting much more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,27,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}