Hi Guys,

The Sola Busca, is the first complete Tarot deck, and dates to the 15th Century. It’s not surprising to find, that the Rider Waite and Thoh Tarot decks are based on this deck. I'm not going to include the dates, but we know that the RW was designed long before A. Crowley did the Thoth deck.

The images are not of extremely high quality. Size in the first place plays a "MAJOR PART"  .  

Looking at all three these decks, will show, how the symbolism, links and influences have been changed added or altered.

For us to establish how AE Waite and A. Crowley got to their images, it’s important to include or compare each card, Pip, Court and Majors. In the Sola Busca, we find a lot of Mythology regarding prominent “leaders or dieties” Each one has it’s own Mythological meaning.

For us to understand the cards, we cannot include the myriad of other decks that sprouted as “Tarot Masters” designed their own decks. Unfortunetaly, most of the times, the real interest or symbolism has been altered, and to understand these decks, you may need an encyclopedia of it’s own. Is it then wisdom or folly to acquire a deck that “looks nice”? I by no means discount the validity of the decks. My opinion is that we should stick to the basics, but, using the “fancy” decks, only to entertain your querant!

Once again, Rhuto, We need to add these images. I have them in word docs. So, it's truly frustrating.

Please, I need help here, Pirbid or Cedars, can't I just email all the images and you add it. I'm truly not a computor wizz, only a glorified gardener.

I will host this first lot on Google docs. the link:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AZyuZlzfve9GZGd0a3I2MzlfMjBmM25yazhyNw&hl=en


Let us start by looking at the Fool.

Blessed be

Payewacker, please email them to me and I will see what I can do.

I am sure Pirbid has got hidden computer talents too as she used to attach a lot of pictures in the past.

I finally managed through a rather tedious process, but I'm afraid it's the one they explained to me when I first started posting on the board.
I have an account on ImageShack where I can upload my images. These I get from Google, mostly. So what I did was Google the Fool for each of the Tarots mentioned by PW, save them as images -jpg- in my Mac, then upload them one by one on to ImageShack. Once there, I just copy the links provided for forums and... voilà!


Here are the Sola Busca Fool, or Mato, the Thoth's Fool and the RW we all know and love  

Well done Pirbid!


The Mato Fool does not say much to me; it does not speak to me with the same insight as RW Fool. However, it may mean something different to the RW's Fool.  At first glance I get impressions of someone timid, scared and hesitant.

With the Thoth's Fool, I get the feeling of someone strong, defying the elements (lion etc) and sort of in a whirlwind.

The RW Fool gives me the feeling of the uncaring, risk-taker, going towards the unknown and also, at times, the foolish in the real sense of the word.

I am not looking into symbolism here at all. The initial and first impact I get.

AHA, Pirbid, your'e a star.

Can we assume you will be assisting with uploading these images as we go along? One thing forsure, they are far clearer than the ones I have. Cedars, I'm going to mail it to you as well.

Ok, so i'm going to remove the link to Google docs, and rather do my posting here!

BTW, there are more than one version of all the cards in the Thoth deck! Some even eight, will look it up.

Blessed be.