Book By Its Cover

10.30.08
Marcel Ruijters

In junior high I went through a Ouiji board, palm-reading, books of spells, tarot cards phase. I never really learned what the tarot cards all meant but I had a friend who used to read my fortune daily. I remember thinking- please not the death card, please not the death card. I was intrigued when I saw the packaging for tarot set by artist Marcel Ruijters. The cards inside were a burst of silkscreened color drawn in a style that mimics block printing. They are each pretty comical making Le Jugement card not so scary after all. I picked these up at the art book fair last weekend but they seem to be sold out on Le Dernier Cri- but they always have interesting stuff to check out (just turn the volume down so you don’t go crazy while browsing!) tarottarot3
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4 Comments
10/30/08  6:37pm
Bean wrote

I was never much into ouija boards or palm reading or that side of divination, but I’ve always been into symbology and hence been fascinated by tarot cards and the I Ching and such. I own about a dozen tarot decks and have started work on a few of my own, although never seen them through all that far.

One of the first things that books on tarot tell you is that (unlike the way it’s generally portrayed in movies and on TV) the Death card doesn’t actually mean death, it’s a metaphor for the end of something (a phase in your life, a way of looking at things, a relationship) and the attendant beginning of something new.


10/31/08  11:32am
rui vitorino santos wrote

i´m not on this tarot energy/prediction but i could consider to buy it, just because of the illustrations.


11/7/08  9:32pm
The Mellowist wrote

I went through that “new-agey” phase in my youth too and have quite a number of tarot sets and instruction manuals as a result. But the constant act of referring to my manuals while I set-out the cards sort of ruined the conviction of those I tried to read the fate of. Anyway, the set above is lovely, I would buy it for the tongue-in-cheek humor alone.


12/27/08  2:10pm
Jane wrote

These are superb, I would certainly consider adding them to my collection.



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