First e-book edition © 2021 E-book ISBN: 9780738764627 Cards on cover are from Pre-Raphealite Tarot and Mystical Tarot used with permission from Lo Scarabeo Cover design by Shannon McKuhen For interior art credits please see page 625 Tarot Decks Used: Ancient Italian Tarot © 2000 by Lo Scarabeo Animal Totem Tarot © 2016 by Leeza Robertson and Eugene Smith, Llewellyn Publications llustrations from the Rider-Waite Tarot Deck® reproduced by permission of U.S. Any unauthorized usage of the text without express written permission of the publisher is a violation of the author’s copyright and is illegal and punishable by law. The text may not be otherwise reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, or recorded on any other storage device in any form or by any means. As the purchaser of this e-book, you are granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any matter whatsoever, including Internet usage, without written permission from Llewellyn Publications, except in the form of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. Copyright Information Tarot Deciphered: Decoding Esoteric Symbolism in Modern Tarot © 2021 by T. In this life, Mel has been often a student, and sometimes a teacher, of ninety-three interests from A to Z: alchemy, art, aromatherapy, astrology, beadwork, beekeeping, bookmaking, brewing, cards, chaos, channeling, colors, Crowley … all the way to zazen, the zeitgeist, and the zodiacal myths. These works can be found at tarot, and updates on creative happenings randomly appear on her blog at. Mel is the creator of the Tabula Mundi Tarot, the Rosetta Tarot, the Pharos Tarot, and other works in progress, and the author of Book M: Liber Mundi, the Book of Seshet, and Spectrum Fari: The Keys of Pharos. Susan Chang, of the Fortune’s Wheelhouse podcast together they explore the many wormholes that open up when one delves into esoteric tarot. She is a co-host and cocreator, along with fellow mage T. She is the illustrator, developer, designer, and author of diverse occult-themed creations. Meleen is a mystic, a magician, and a maker. She lives in western New England with her family, her feline familiar, and a variable number of chickens. When not engaged in tarot-adjacent activity, she teaches writing at Smith College and occasionally reviews cookbooks. She attempts to learn Hebrew approximately once every fifteen months, occasionally crawls down the stairs headfirst by way of apotropaic magic upon drawing the Tower, and has been known to spontaneously arrange her pancakes into a Tree of Life formation. She reads tarot online, as well as for the Inspirit Crystals shop in Northampton, Massachusetts, and offers an ongoing online tarot course known as “The Living Tarot,” which is available at her website, Her interest in tarot is wide-ranging and passionate, and has included: setting up seventy-eight Spotify card playlists memorizing astrological correspondences for the minor arcana while swimming laps writing tarot spells and maintaining a sprawling Card-of-the-Day tracking database (complete with elemental, astrological, and kabbalistical frequency and percentage pie charts). She is the creator of the Arcana Case® for tarot decks, which can be found at along with her line of esoteric perfumes. Susan Chang is the author of Tarot Correspondences: Ancient Secrets for Everyday Readers and the co-host and producer of the Fortune’s Wheelhouse esoteric tarot podcast. Its continuing episodes examine the cards using frameworks borrowed from a variety of occult systems as filters. Its initial seventyeight episodes serve as a primer to learning the visual language of the Rider-WaiteSmith and Thoth decks. Meleen are the co-hosts of the Fortune’s Wheelhouse podcast, which explores the symbolism and lore of esoteric tarot.
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