Mystics. Witches, goddesses, and occultists in the tarot archetypes vindicates the participation of women in the history of the occult through twenty-two portraits that engage in dialogue with the arcane. 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 his mother; Sappho (The Lover) remember that love is —also— bitter; Dion Fortune (Temperance) marches to war with a battalion of meditators; Marie Anne Lenormand (The Chariot) She goes from orphaned girl to elite French fortune teller. Her trajectories confirm a central idea: women can be dark; we have been dark.

What includes

• 22 major arcana who follow the numerology of the Marseille tarot.

• 56 minor arcana inspired by the Rider–Waite–Smith illustrations.

• 16 court cards with other enigmatic characters throughout history.

Author: Mara Parra

Illustrated by: Josefina Schargorodsky

Prologue: Tamara Grosso