Twenty-Two Impressions
notes from the Major Arcana
by Jessica Friedmann
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Pub Date 16 Jan 2025 | Archive Date Not set
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Description
A poetic new essay collection in which the symbols of the tarot brush up against life in a changing world.
The Tarot de Marseille is a 16th-century set of playing cards, the deck on which the occult use of tarot was originally based. When Jessica Friedmann bought her first pack, the unfamiliar images sparked a deep immersion in the art, symbols, myths, and misrepresentations of Renaissance-era tarot.
Over the years that followed, and as tarot became a part of her daily rhythm, Friedmann’s life was touched by floods and by drought, by devastating fires and a pandemic, creating an environment in which the only constant was change.
Twenty-Two Impressions: notes from the Major Arcana uses the Tarot de Marseille as a touchstone, blending historical research, art history, and critical insights with personal reflections. In these essays, Friedmann demonstrates how the cards of the Major Arcana can be used as a lens through which to examine the unexpectedness — and subtle beauty — of 21st-century life.
Advance Praise
‘Jessica Friedmann’s essay collection Twenty-Two Impressions sheds novel light on the potential of the tarot to guide how people move through and experience life … [these] essays draw connections between the cards and broader concepts, world events, and personal experiences … Friedmann is an honest narrator who acknowledges and relates to spiritualism skeptics … A misunderstood cultural phenomenon is used as a window to the human experience in the personal essay collection Twenty-Two Impressions.’
Foreword Reviews
‘Luminous and tender, full of nuance and possibility, it is a series of personal reflections on each of the 22 cards in the major arcana … she merges memoir with instruction, historical insights with everyday observation, consideration of the cards’ universal major themes with the specificity of her own circumstances, as well as wider reading into art, culture, spirituality, wellness, and shifting social attitudes around the cards. It’s a lucid reminder of the “ongoingness” of history, stories, and the self — a meditation on the everyday magic of life and an argument for the enduring legacy of the tarot.’
Mel Fulton, Books+Publishing
‘Enlightening … Blending historical insights with her own warm, vulnerable perspectives, Friedmann’s book will influence how each of us — novice or expert — reads and interprets the Tarot.’Holly Mortlock, Readings
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781913348960 |
| PRICE | £12.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 272 |
