Catulo Tarot Card Meaning and Art Sola Busca Tarot Deck
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About the Deck
Sola Busca Tarot Deck
The oldest complete tarot deck we possess, and one of the only early decks to be fully illustrated.
It is by no means certain, but it has been alleged that the Sola Busca tarot deck was commissioned to honor Alfonso d'Este on the occasion of his wedding to Anna Sforza, granddaughter of Bianca Maria Visconti.
Provenance
Italy, c.1491.
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Meaning of Catulo from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck
Upright
Poetic words.
Reversed
Political ravings.
According to Many Schools of Thought
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The High Priest or Hierophant, called also Spiritual Father, and more commonly and obviously the Pope. It seems even to have been named the Abbot, and then its correspondence, the High Priestess, was the Abbess or Mother of the Convent. Both are arbitrary names. The insignia of the figures are papal, and in such case the High Priestess is and can be only the Church, to whom Pope and priests are married by the spiritual rite of ordination. I think, however, that in its primitive form this card did not represent the Roman Pontiff.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
Mercy, Beneficence Kindness, Goodness
Reversed
Over-kindness, weakness, Foolish exercise of generosity.
Papus's Divinatory Meanings
Inspiration.
