Marcus Katz > Quotes

“Tarot is a lyrical language of the soul's encounter with the Universe. It arises freely, and like the most dignified dance, allows us to express ourselves in motion to the music of the divine. The re-arrangement and reading of the deck is as sacred as the most religious ritual or act of love. Treasure it. Trust it. Let it divine you.”
― Marcus Katz, Tarot Inspire

“It was as if she was more at home with her imagination than any land physical.”
― Marcus Katz, Secrets of the Waite-Smith Tarot: The True Story of the World's Most Popular Tarot

“Temperance reconciles water and fire for Waite; it is the “cleansing” and the “saving” of divine connection. As such, it is a far more alchemical understanding that Waite had of this card than the version Pamela painted for his first deck. In fact, his second version of Temperance, in the Waite-Trinick images, shows a far loftier concept of the card. The Golden Dawn had two images of this card, and Crowley took from the alchemical version as Waite did with Trinick, but not with Pamela”
― Marcus Katz, Secrets of the Waite-Smith Tarot: The True Story of the World's Most Popular Tarot

“Taking these all together, we would see your destiny as extremely creative, taking emotional initiative and adapting to whatever situations you find in life. You may be prone to uncertainty and extravagance in overdoing things when you are unsure.”
― Marcus Katz, Tarot Life Month 1: Discover your Destiny

“You know, I’ve met a lot of hereditary witches, but never their parents.”
― Marcus Katz, Tarosophy: Tarot to Engage Life, Not Escape It

“Knowledge of the stars comes both from you and from them.”
― Marcus Katz, Tarosophy: Tarot to Engage Life, Not Escape It

“When you’re at the beginning, don’t obsess about the middle, because the middle is going to look different once you get there. Just look for a strong beginning and a strong ending and get moving”.”
― Marcus Katz, Tarot Life Month 1: Discover your Destiny

“Waite, from where I sit, had about as much insight into that [the personality link to the Minor cards] and other matters as my beautiful Siamese cats. If anything, I have a sneaking suspicion that his artist, Pamela Coleman [sic] Smith, also a member of The Golden Dawn, was a strange clairvoyant creature whose inner vision must have had a greater effect on Waite than Waite did on her. Furthermore, I have always suspected that the real shining light behind this and so many of the other Golden Dawn concepts emanated from the fertile brain and vision of MacGregor-Mathers about whom we know so very little. —Israel Regardie, in a letter to Muriel Hasbrouck, October 25,”
― Marcus Katz, Secrets of the Waite-Smith Tarot: The True Story of the World's Most Popular Tarot

“This is the true secret of the Waite-Smith Tarot—it was a rectification of the power of symbolism to provide universal access to a hidden sanctuary of mystical experience created by a bohemian Catholic artist and a Catholic mystic, presented through the theatrical tradition. 2.”
― Marcus Katz, Secrets of the Waite-Smith Tarot: The True Story of the World's Most Popular Tarot