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Speaking of French texts, I wonder if anyone here has read Jodorowsky's recent La voie du tarot http://makeashorterlink.com/?C34C23749
My faded French would never survive over 500 pp of text (I just do a bit of Rimbaud) and I'm sure an eventual English translation is unlikely, but I'm curious as to what the co-designer of the Camoin has to say.
I'm interested in knowing what others have thought of this. I realise that I had heard of Jodorowsky's name in other contexts --- he also writes comic books. I believe I may have seen one in translation in Heavy Metal. Is this any good? It sounds more meditative than instructive.
Right now the only French language Tarot book I own is Carole Sédillot's Ombres et Lumières du Tarot. It is nicely comprehensive and well organized, and I would recommend it. I've also read Tarot et Graal, which was the subject of some discussion here last year; wouldn't recommend it - not because it's bad per se, but because it assumes you have already internalized the symbol vocabulary of a system it does not explain from the ground up. I've also read Maxwell's The Tarot in English; it is informative, but I found it somewhat old fashioned, rather like reading Dion Fortune without her occasional flashes of common sense.
(Somewhere in the intervening decades, the myths have changed; the old theosophical language needs to be updated for us to be comfortable with it. We end up embarrased for Waite when he starts going on about a Great White Brotherhood, or Fortune when she starts talking about racial destinies; I start getting a little nervous when anyone starts going on about active "male" and passive "female" qualities.)
I suppose I could count Berbiguier du Terre-Neuve du Thym's Les Farfadets. . . . Of all the various writers in French who touch on Tarot subjects, he is the most consistently eloquent and entertaining.