Hello everyone!
Many years ago I came into possession of the Ancient Enlightened Tarot.
It was a gadget attached to a Tarot Encyclopedia published in weekly both in Italy and in Spain, edited among others by Giordano Berti, who is known as one of the leading Tarot scholars in the world.
In this way I came into contact for the first time with the Sola Busca Tarot.
Unfortunately, there were only historical explanations in the Encyclopedia.
I wrote to Lo Scarabeo and they sent me Sofia Di Vincenzo's book with an introduction by Giordano Berti.
While reading the Di Vincenzo's comments to each figure, I had a burst of light in my mind. Indeed, more explosions!
At each figure, I mean, at each explanation, I felt something moving inside me, but I didn't understand what.
Then, at the beginning of 2013, I went to Milan to see the Sola Busca Tarot exhibition organized at the Brera Gallery.
The figures was completely different from the version attached to the Encyclopedia!!!!!
I mean, from the Ancient Enlightened Tarot.
In that occasion I bought the Meneghello's deck, the first version, the one with the 22 Triumphs only.
The paper is awful, but at least the figures and colors are close to reality.
A few months later a bookseller in Bologna told me that Berti had put on the market the edition made in Germany by Wolfgang Mayer in 1998
https://solabuscatarot1998mayer.wordpress.com/about/
But I didn't have the money to buy it.
Then, as the months went by, the price of that deck kept going up and I gave up.
One year later bought the Adams book, but not the Scarlet Imprint deck.
I found the book too full of things. I do not know how to say.
It looks like the frame of a Dan Brown novel.
I understand that Adams has done extensive studies but it seems to me that he gets lost in the maze of history.
I mean, I don't think his conclusions are realistic.
This matter of the Saturnians seems to me "illuminated" by the conspiracy theories that have been in vogue in recent decades.
I left aside the Sola Busca Tarot until the summer of 2021, when I learned that Berti was curating a special edition of the Sola Busca for the Renaissance for the 1600th anniversary of the foundation of Venice.
As is known, the Sola Busca was painted in Venice in 1491.
As soon as that deck came out, I immediately bought it: the magnificent SOLA BUSCA GOLDEN EDITION!!!!
https://rinascimentoitalianartenglish.w ... n-edition/
In the box there was an invitation to follow Giordano Berti's video course on the Sola Busca Tarot.
I let myself be carried away by enthusiasm.
Now, with an absolutely perfect version of the deck, I felt ready to take on the study.
I have already written in a post on this forum about my enthusiasm for Berti's video course.
I want to repeat here: it is one of the most beautiful things that have happened to me in recent years.
The simplicity of language, the fluency of the concepts and above all the practical part led me to understand what lies behind these splendid cards.
Berti explains that the first level of the course is deliberately simple, to allow everyone to enter into the logic of these figures without filling their heads with too many ideas.
I also found the dossiers that Berti prepared very useful to facilitate the memorization of figures and meanings.
So, I know I'm still standing on the surface but I look forward to the Master launching the second level.
Hello to everyone from Paola Maria
PS:
There are some freely accessible lessons on the Berti's website.
Those who love the Sola Busca Tarot would do well to see them
https://giordanoberti.podia.com/courses ... nfilio-mp4
https://giordanoberti.podia.com/courses ... a-contents
