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Chapter One
Endnotes
1. Richard Cavendish, The Tarot (London: Harper & Row, 1975), p. 11: “The household
accounts of King Charles VI of France show that in 1392 a payment was made to
‘Jacquemin Gringonneur, painter, for three packs of cards, gilded and colored, and
ornamented with various devices, supplied to the King for his amusement.’ “Also, from
p. 1: “In the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris there, are seventeen magnificent cards,
sixteen of the Tarot Trumps, which were long believed to have been made by
Gringonneur for Charles VI, but which are now thought be Italian and to date from
about 1470.”
Chapter Two
1. The premise here is that you are dealing with individual karma, but part of that individual
karma includes aspects of the groups into which you were born. The requirements
of your group karma are internalized as part of your individual package in the
Karmic Contract.
2. Read the definition of position 15 in the Karmic Spread and of card 15, The Devil, in
the Major Arcana to see this phenomenon of duality at work in the Tarot.
3. Here are three examples of studies on the journey through the Major Arcana:
A. Juliet Sharman-Burke, The Complete Book of Tarot (New York: St. Martin’s Press,
1985).
B. Liz Greene, Juliet Sharman-Burke, and Tricia Newell, The Mythic Tarot (New
York:Simon & Schuster, 1986).
C. Clifford Bias, ed., The Way Back (York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, 1985).
Chapter Three
l. Arthur Edward Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1959).
2. Ken Wilber, Eye to Eye: The Quest for the New Paradigm (Garden City, NY: Anchor
Press/Doubleday, 1983). Wilber stresses the importance of understanding that the
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