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AstroLog 2007 Discovering the missing link between TAROT & I CHING Introducing the 'Complete New Tarot' by Rob and Onno Docters van Leeuwen. 24 Tarot Cards & Book, "The Complete New Tarot" with previously unknown links between the Tarot and the I Ching. Includes the 24 Cards of the Major Arcana (with Truth and Intuition). Explanation in brief: Historically, the number of Major Arcana cards, according to author Rob Docters van Leeuwen, was edited down from an original 24 to 22 by omitting Jupiter (King of Heaven) and Juno (Queen of Heaven), as the Inquisition viewed these two Roman divinities as pagan competition for the Christian figureheads. So the total number of Tarot cards was thus reduced to 78. By restoring the two missing Major Arcana cards to 24, the total becomes 80, and there is then a numerical cross-reference possible to the I Ching. From Intro of 'The Complete New Tarot': e Perhaps two of the most widely known systems of divination are the Tarot deck of cards, and the I Ching, most commonly deciphered from throwing three coins in repetitive sequence. (A brief history of the two systems is included in the book). To date, there has been no apparent connection between the two systems, the Tarot having a set of cards with 78 archetypal images (Major & Minor Arcana) and the I Ching having 64 hexagrams and 16 trigrams. Long-term researchers of esoteric divination systems, Rob & Onno Docters van Leeuwen, have found a 'missing link' between the historical Tarot and the I Ching, by their rediscovery and restoration of two archetypes to classical Tarot: Truth (Jupiter) and Intuition (Juno). The 'King and Queen of Heaven', from the Roman pantheon of mythical godheads, were removed from the Major Arcana of the Tarot deck during the witch hunting era of the Inquisition, and currently there are two blank cards accompanying the 78 printed ones. In the Docters van Leeuwen brothers 'Complete New Tarot', there are now 80 archetypal images, numerically equivalent to the I Ching's 64 hexagrams and 16 trigrams (80 in all). In the Tarot & I Ching feature, Rob Docters van Leeuwen explores the symbolic connections and gives examples, featuring cards illustrated by Onno Docters van Leeuwen. 24 Major Arcana Cards Wellspring AstroLog 2007 provides readers with a Gift Bonus of a set of the new 24 Major Arcana cards for sampling divination exercises. All you need to do is carefully trim the cards, shuffle and lay them out, referring to the guidelines within for correlations between the two systems.