THE POWER OF THE TRUMPS AND PIPS
THE POWER OF THE TRUMPS AND PIPS. THE OMNIBUS EDITION
CAMELIA ELIAS
This book is an omnibus edition that gathers three types of texts around the Marseille Tarot: two previously published works out of print, here in re-edited form, unpublished lectures, and new essays. The book features applications of the basic principles of reading the Marseille Tarot to the contextualization of current questions and concerns.
The approach to reading the trump, court, and pip cards is informed, first, by observing the rules of formal design and composition as it connects to rhetoric and storytelling, and second, by martial arts in the Zen tradition of deconstructing language. The book offers pragmatic readings in relation to the diviner’s larger aim and scope: to see the obvious. The range of the questions spans from reflections on personal power and agency to examples of how to seduce the plumber when he can’t fix your pipes.
6×9” | B&W illustrations | 190 pp
ISBN 978-8792633613 paperback
ISBN 978-8792633620 ebook
CATEGORY
Divination
EDITIONS
Standard paperback 2018 | $25
Ebook 2020 | $18
NOTE
An anthology of essays in method
REVIEWS
It was nice to see Camelia combine The Power of the Trumps and The Power of the Pips books into one edition featuring also new essays in it. Camelia’s books on tarot are the only ones that I’ve read and read again... even a third or fourth time... and it’s always interesting catching something that I may have missed the first time around. — JENNY AMERY
An excelent, no nonsense book on reading tarot de marseille. Elias teaches how to see what’s there and how to read what you see. — FRANZ, Amazon
