Dates: Saturday, December 13
Time: 2 PM EST (New York)
8 PM EST (London)
12 PM EST (Los Angeles)
PLEASE NOTE: All classes will also be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
Taught via Zoom by Robert M Place
$115 General Admission ( $95 for Members, to become a member you can do so HERE)
In this two-hour class, Robert will explore the history of Egyptomania and explain why the first occultists to write about the Tarot, Antoine Court de Gébelin and Comte de Mellet, believed that Egypt was the source of the Tarot’s mystical trumps.
Although it is often said that they were inspired by Egyptomania, the term technically refers to the craze for all things Egyptian that followed Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt and the discovery of the Rosetta Stone in 1799 — seventeen years later. What we will see, however, is that fascination with ancient Egypt had already been a powerful current in European culture, beginning in ancient Greece and flourishing in the Roman world with the spread of the cult of Isis.
Robert M. Place is the designer and illustrator of over twenty Tarot and oracle decks: including the internationally acclaimed and award-winning Alchemical Tarot, The Angels Tarot,The Marziano Tarot, the award-winning The Tarot of the Saints, The Buddha Tarot,The Vampire Tarot, The Tarot of the Sevenfold Mystery, The Tarot of the Alchemical Magnum Opus, The Alchemical Tarot of Marseille, The Hermes Playing Card Oracle, An Ukiyo-e Lenormand (based on Japanese culture), The Raziel Tarot and The Burning Serpent Oracle (for both of which he collaborated with Tarot diva Rachel Pollack). Besides writing books to accompany his decks, he is the author of The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination, which Booklist has said, “may be the best book ever written on that deck of cards decorated with mysterious images called the Tarot.” He is the author of Astrology andDivination, Magic and Alchemy, Shamanism,Alchemy and the Tarot, and The Tarot, Magic, Alchemy, Hermeticism, and Neoplatonism. He is the curator of “The Fools' Journey” and the author of the catalog for this exhibition of Tarot art that originated at the LA Craft and Folk-Art Museum, in 2010.
He was the guest of honor at the opening of the Tarot Museum in Riola, Italy, in 2007. His Facsimile Historic Italian Tarot is included in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he recurrently lectures on their card collection. He and his work have appeared on the BBC, A&E, the Discovery Channel, and the Learning Channel. He has taught and lectured throughout the US and on five of the seven continents. His newest work, The Fist Occult Tarot, is a deck and book based on the descriptions written in 1781 by the come de Mellet, the first occult author to describe a Tarot deck.
Dates: Saturday, December 13
Time: 2 PM EST (New York)
8 PM EST (London)
12 PM EST (Los Angeles)
PLEASE NOTE: All classes will also be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
Taught via Zoom by Robert M Place
$115 General Admission ( $95 for Members, to become a member you can do so HERE)
In this two-hour class, Robert will explore the history of Egyptomania and explain why the first occultists to write about the Tarot, Antoine Court de Gébelin and Comte de Mellet, believed that Egypt was the source of the Tarot’s mystical trumps.
Although it is often said that they were inspired by Egyptomania, the term technically refers to the craze for all things Egyptian that followed Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt and the discovery of the Rosetta Stone in 1799 — seventeen years later. What we will see, however, is that fascination with ancient Egypt had already been a powerful current in European culture, beginning in ancient Greece and flourishing in the Roman world with the spread of the cult of Isis.
Robert M. Place is the designer and illustrator of over twenty Tarot and oracle decks: including the internationally acclaimed and award-winning Alchemical Tarot, The Angels Tarot,The Marziano Tarot, the award-winning The Tarot of the Saints, The Buddha Tarot,The Vampire Tarot, The Tarot of the Sevenfold Mystery, The Tarot of the Alchemical Magnum Opus, The Alchemical Tarot of Marseille, The Hermes Playing Card Oracle, An Ukiyo-e Lenormand (based on Japanese culture), The Raziel Tarot and The Burning Serpent Oracle (for both of which he collaborated with Tarot diva Rachel Pollack). Besides writing books to accompany his decks, he is the author of The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination, which Booklist has said, “may be the best book ever written on that deck of cards decorated with mysterious images called the Tarot.” He is the author of Astrology andDivination, Magic and Alchemy, Shamanism,Alchemy and the Tarot, and The Tarot, Magic, Alchemy, Hermeticism, and Neoplatonism. He is the curator of “The Fools' Journey” and the author of the catalog for this exhibition of Tarot art that originated at the LA Craft and Folk-Art Museum, in 2010.
He was the guest of honor at the opening of the Tarot Museum in Riola, Italy, in 2007. His Facsimile Historic Italian Tarot is included in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he recurrently lectures on their card collection. He and his work have appeared on the BBC, A&E, the Discovery Channel, and the Learning Channel. He has taught and lectured throughout the US and on five of the seven continents. His newest work, The Fist Occult Tarot, is a deck and book based on the descriptions written in 1781 by the come de Mellet, the first occult author to describe a Tarot deck.
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