A new/(OLD) deck. Austin Osman Spare

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Some of the images that join on the card edges. Excerpted from Lost Envoy.

"The deck design is highly unusual for combining cartomancy and taromancy, and for the complex system of interconnecting visual motifs that link many of the cards across their borders."

Unfortunately, yes. This was the way people read cards. It was pretty standard: Majors meanings, pip meanings, combined meanings. No pulling a Daily card (hoping you see That Guy) and calling it "spiritual." The Tarot, after all, is a deck of playing cards. And even Waite borrowed heavily from "A Book of Days." Spare, at a glance, appears to be following PRS Foli's Fortune-telling by cards.

Victorian cartomancy is vital to reading pip decks.So the Spare deck appeared not a moment too soon.)

This deck was only rediscovered in 2013. It stayed hidden throughout the 20th century, and seemed to reappear when it was truly needed, almost like Tibetan terma.

Some information on Spare: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/may/06/austin-osman-spare-phil-baker

https://flashbak.com/austin-osman-spare-occult-art-439290/





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