Marianne Costa Speaking at Fields Book Store on December 2, 2010
Author Marianne Costa will be speaking at 8:00 pm at Fields Book Store on Thursday, December 2. She will be presenting The Way of Tarot: The Spiritual Teacher in the Cards, which she co-authored with Alejandro Jodorowsky.
Costa has worked with Jodorowsky since 1997, co-teaching workshops on Tarot and family tree-therapy. The author of No Woman’s Land, she lives in Paris.
About the book:
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s profound study of the Tarot, which began in the early 1950s, reveals it to be far more than a simple divination device. The Tarot is first and foremost a powerful instrument of self-knowledge and a representation of the structure of the soul. The Way of Tarot shows that the entire deck is structured like a temple, or a mandala, which is both an image of the world and a representation of the divine. The authors use the sacred art of the original Marseille Tarot–created during a time of religious tolerance in the 11th century–to reconnect with the roots of the Tarot’s Western esoteric wisdom. They explain that the Tarot is a “nomadic cathedral” whose parts–the 78 cards or “arcana”–should always be viewed with an awareness of the whole structure. This understanding is essential to fully grasp the Tarot’s hermetic symbolism.