Here I gather all my writings about my explorations with the Tarocco Bolognese or Tarocchino Bolognese (literally Small Bolognese Tarot), a traditional Northern-Italian fortune-telling deck. There are traditionally several ways of using this deck, almost all of which require the reader to create a reduced pack (hence the ‘small tarot’). The most common systems use a reduced pack of 50 or 45 cards, with the 45-card deck being probably older. Although I quickly introduce both systems, I currently focus mainly on the 45-card system.

Introductory Articles

A Quick Intro to the Bolognese Tarot
Introduction to the 50-card Deck
Introduction to the 45-card Deck
Making Sense of the Various Systems as a Beginner

Card Meanings and Combinations

Meanings of the Minor Arcana
Meanings of the Major Arcana
Introduction to Combinations
Some Examples of Combinations
How to Tackle Combinations

Spreads

Great Spread N°1: The Bed Sheet
Great Spread N° 2: The Staircase
Great Spread N° 3: The Significator Spread
The Thirteen Card Spread
The Cross Spread (with Example)
Three Variants of the Couple’s Spread

Book Reviews

Germana Tartari’s Tarocchino Bolognese. Storia Divinazione
Maria Luigia Ingallati’s I Tarocchi Parlano
Rossella Giliberti’s Manuale Pratico di Lettura di Tarocchino Bolognese
Lia Celi’s Manuale di Cartomanzia
Andrea Vitali’s and Terry Zanetti’s Il Tarocchino di Bologna