Astrologia, 16th century print by Hans Sebald Beham.

Back in the first decade of the 1900s, Everybody's Magazine featured some article titles reminiscent of Tarot.

For instance, here's The Empress:


The Wheel of Fortune:


The Sun:


Strength:


The Lovers:


Death:


And our favorite, The Hermit:

Death and the Hierophant overlap in a scene from Sergei Eisenstein's classic Ivan the Terrible Part 2.

The World: a scene from Sergei Eisenstein's masterpiece Ivan the Terrible Part 1.

This 19th century portrait of Ivan the Terrible was inspired by yesterdays's post. In this image, he seems more like the King of Swords.

The King of Coins: a scene from Sergei Eisenstein's astonishing Ivan the Terrible Part 1.

Here's a Tarot transition, between cards 0 and 1. Let's call it card number 1/2. The Fool and his dog soar off the cliff.

The image is from Old French Fairy Tales by Comtesse De Segur, illustrated by Virginia Frances Sterrett. See the book archived here.

"There are many more enigmas in the shadow of a man who walks in the sun than in all the religions of the past, present, and future."
—Giorgio de Chirico, Hebdomeros (and other writings)

(Image from Jacob Koebel's book of heraldic emblem flags.)

"Horrible swords hang on the walls of dark and silent rooms. Death is there, full of promises. Medusa with eyes that do not see."
—Giorgio de Chirico, Hebdomeros (and other writings)

"There is nothing like the enigma of the Arcade—invented by the Romans, with all that could be Roman. A street, an arch: the sun looks different when it bathes a Roman wall in light. . . . In Rome the sense of prophecy is somehow larger: a feeling of infinite and distant grandeur inhabits it, the same feeling with which the Roman builder imbues his arcades, a reflection of the spasm of the infinite which the heavenly arch sometimes produces in man.
—Giorgio de Chirico, Hebdomeros (and other writings)