Mirror Tarot: The Book

Mirror Tarot begins from Italo Calvino’s conception of the tarot as ‘a machine for constructing stories’. An opening essay traces the Major Arcana through centuries of allegory, mysticism and play, contextualising the cards’ evolution within artistic, literary and intellectual history. From the Neoplatonist Renaissance to modern occultism and contemporary popular culture, the tarot has long offered a generative mirror for the imaginative life.

Mirror Tarot presents each card as a small worl...