Nigel Jackson Tarot
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Published as a book and deck set, the Nigel Jackson Tarot (presently re-issued as the 'Medieval Enchantment' tarot) consists of intricate ink drawings tinted in subtle muted watercolors by Hermetic artist-illustrator Nigel Jackson. The trumps are structured and titled following the French-Milanese Marseilles order, with traditional titling and placement. A set of astrological correspondances for the trumps is generated from Astrology of the High Middle Ages, 'Children of the Planets' woodcuts and the Essential Dignities of the planets. The court and pip cards' meanings and themes are based solidly upon the 18th century French-Piedmontese tradition relayed via Etteilla as also reflected in Waite-Smith and other later decks: following the conventions of alchemical symbology batons (depicted as Arrows in the style of the Visconti-Sforza decks) represent Air, swords equate with Fire - his scenes and meanings for the pips are clearly derived from continental cartomancy. According to Jackson, the deck was inspired by researches into the patterns of medieval Neo-Pythagorean arithmancy, Neoplatonic and Hermetic imagery and his insight into possible correlations between Tarot and classical number-symbolism preserved into the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Based on his ongoing work in pre-modern esoteric traditions in the West, his 2006 book Fortuna's Wheel is a succinct summary of his speculative theories to date about Tarot symbolism in the context of medieval Catholic, Neo-Platonic and Pythagorean ideas.
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[edit] Date of Publication
September 2000
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Llewellyn
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To be added
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"This deck was created over a 2 year period in the late 90s: it is actually a sort of 'reincarnation' of the first hand-drawn and coloured deck on 78 peices of card which I created as a youngster in 1974 which was based on the old Piedmontese tarocchi as shown in a Kathleen McCormack paperback and I've always been grateful that the first tarot images my imagination was 'seeded' with were those very authentic designs: Paul Huson's seminal 'The Devil's Picture Book' was another early inspiration back in the 1970's. The Neo-Pythagorean numerological speculations which underly this deck along with the swords-fire and staves-air correspondances and the set of planetary dignities which I correlate with the Trumps are all derived from my research and practise within traditional Hermeticism, Neoplatonic Magic and Traditional Astrology - as regards divinatory significance I cleave closely throughout to the customary cartomantic meanings derived from Etteilla (and his 2 Piedmontese oral sources) in the 18th century (and subsequently adopted by most tarot writers including A.E Waite). The astrological ascription for the trumps are a frankly speculative outcropping of my work with medieval-renaissance Hermeticism and planetary image-magic from Cornelius Agrippa, Giordano Bruno and the Kitab Ghayat al-Hakim (Picatrix) - whilst chronologically they are of course contemporary I might suggest that these planetary-astrological correspondances are qualitatively more 'traditional'( because they are founded upon genuine Traditional Astrological rulerships) than the Victorian trump ascriptions which became regarded unquestioningly by most occultists as 'set in stone' during the 20th century. The imagery of these cards also conveys an affectionate homage to the conceptions of both Pamela Colman-Smith and A.E Waite and also to the Thomson-Leng Tarot of the 1930s. So this deck fulfils a double ambit in that it aimed to indicate the salient features of a more traditional conceptual horizon underlying Tarot imagery whilst presenting a Tarot design faithful to the traditional iconography of late medieval Tarocchi complete with Pope and Popess and so forth."
Nigel Jackson: 25th August 2006
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[edit] Reviews
- Tarot Passages Michele Jackson's review
- Wicce.com review
- Tarot Passages Review by Connie Walters
- Tarot Passages Review by Elizabeth Hazel
- Aeclectic Tarot review
- eCauldron review
