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Energy Tarot - Tarocchi e Chakra      1999      Italy                                                   Art Medium: Pen drawings with watercolour. Description: Issued with the book 'Tarocchi e Chakra' by Pia Vercellesi and Giampaolo Gasparri. This presents a synthesis of Tarot and the esoteric ideas of Chakras. The authors, husband and wife, founded L'Associazione Aura in Milan in 1997, to promote their ideas about balancing the aura using their chakric methods. Later they brought the tarot into their synthetic system. Each of the Majors (based on the Wirth deck) has seven circles in a line at the top of the image, linked to the seven chakras. These are coloured in different ways, supposedly to indicate some association of the particular arcanum with some arrangement of chakric energies. The deck issued with the book is thus titled ther 'Energy Tarot'.