Místicas. Witches, goddesses, and occultists in the archetypes of the tarot claims the participation
of women in the history of the occult through twenty-two portraits that engage with the arcana.
Artists, poets, mediums, goddesses, and warriors who experienced contact with the supernatural
and whose lives illuminate a tradition so often told without them.
The book draws precise correspondences between biographies and symbols:
Sylvia Plath (The Moon) confronts the bond with her mother;
Sappho (The Lover) reminds us that love is —also— bitter;
Dion Fortune (Temperance) marches to war with a battalion of meditators;
Marie Anne Lenormand (The Chariot) goes from orphan girl to seer of the French elite.
Their paths confirm a central idea: women can be dark; we have been dark.
What it includes
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22 major arcana following the numerology of the Marseille tarot.
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56 minor arcana inspired by the illustrations of the Rider–Waite–Smith.
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16 court cards with other enigmatic characters throughout history.
Author: Mara Parra
Illustrated by: Josefina Schargorodsky
Foreword: Tamara Grosso
