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The Tarot Card Deck Created by Salvador Dalí

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  • #Tarot Art
  • #Surrealism
  • #Occult History
  • The Tarot has been used by both charlatans and brilliant thinkers, including artists like W.B. Yeats and Alejandro Jodorowsky.
  • Jodorowsky views the Tarot as a language about the present, not for predicting the future, emphasizing its artistic and symbolic appeal.
  • Salvador Dalí designed his own Tarot deck in the 1970s, initially commissioned for a James Bond film, but continued independently.
  • Dalí's Tarot deck reflects restraint and reverence, blending surrealism, occult symbols, Christian iconography, and classical art.
  • The deck includes Dalí's recurring motifs like roses, flies, and bull heads, and he features his own face as the Magician card.
  • First published in a limited edition in 1984, Dalí's Tarot deck has been reissued and praised for enhancing the Tarot's esoteric meaning.
  • The Tarot experienced a resurgence in the 1970s, partly due to books and the occult interests of the counterculture.