The Baddeley Tarot -Jake Baddeley

This is the Tarot… as it was meant to be.

The Tarot has always been be more than a just deck of cards and the Baddeley Tarot shows the reasons why this must be so. All the evidence suggests that far from being just a game, it is truly a continuation of the ancient Mystery Traditions wrapped in a Renaissance dress.

In Italy during the Renaissance, the revival of Hermeticism and Neoplatonism opened a Pandora’s box of forbidden heretic philosophies, often at odds with church doctrine. Tarot imagery, which developed in elite intellectual circles, functioned as a coded initiatory map, a moral and spiritual allegory as well as a safe carrier of ancient wisdom, masked as a card game. Tarot, although it has long been suspected be a tool of divination or esoteric wisdom, may actually carry something much older, more profound, and more sacred: the encoded structure of an…