{"id":1431,"date":"2008-11-19T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T18:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/11\/19\/where-art-meets-the-occult-sacred-art-tarot\/"},"modified":"2008-11-19T18:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T18:47:00","slug":"where-art-meets-the-occult-sacred-art-tarot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/11\/19\/where-art-meets-the-occult-sacred-art-tarot\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Art Meets the Occult: Sacred Art Tarot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/sacred-art-tarot.bmp'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/sacred-art-tarot.bmp\" alt=\"\" title=\"sacred-art-tarot\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-408\" \/><\/a>For not actually being a tarot reader, I love tarot decks.  Perhaps it&#8217;s because tarot decks are generally where quality artwork meets the occult, two things that I can appreciate.  Although finding most decks pleasing to the eye and a thing to make my inner occult geek go, oh yeah, I rarely feel inspired by them.  You know, like maybe I should turn off The Big Bang Theory, get my ever widening butt up off the sofa, and learn me some tarot.  The Rider-Waite Tarotgets me every time, and now I can add the Sacred Art Tarotto the list.<\/p>\n<p>The images used on the cards are great classic works of art primarily of a Christian orientation.  Yet the way those images are used invoke a very Western esoteric tradition that I find compelling.  The creator of the deck, Andre St. Dryden, does say that the meanings are based on the teachings of Qabalists and occultists with a mixture of the creator&#8217;s own beliefs and esoteric decks such as the Golden Dawn Tarotand Aleister Crowley&#8217;s Thoth Tarot Deck.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usgamesinc.com\/product.php?productid=1044&#038;cat=0&#038;page=\"target=\"_blank\">The Sacred Art Tarot<\/a> is a 78 card deck that comes with an instruction booklet and a custom spread sheet.  If your tarot tastes run more towards the occult I highly recommend checking this deck out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For not actually being a tarot reader, I love tarot decks.  Perhaps it&#8217;s because tarot decks are generally where quality artwork meets the occult, two things that I can appreciate.  Although finding most decks pleasing to the eye and a thing to make my inner occult geek go, oh yeah, I rarely feel inspired by them.  You know, like maybe I should turn off &#8220;The Big Bang Theory&#8221;, get my ever widening butt up off the sofa, and learn me some tarot.  The &#8216;Rider-Waite Tarot&#8221; gets me every time, and now I can add the &#8220;Sacred Art Tarot&#8221; to the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}