Designs by Robert M Place

an internationally known visionary artist and illustrator, whose award winning works, in painting, sculpture, and jewelry, have been displayed in galleries and museums in America, Europe, and Japan and graced the covers and pages of numerous books and publications. His Tarot illustrations have been exhibited at the Museo dei Tarocchi, in 2007, in Riola, Italy, and in the Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum, in 2010, in California. He is the designer, illustrator, and co-author, with Rosemary Ellen Guiley, of: The Alchemical Tarot and The Angels Tarot, which have received international acclaim particularly for their skillful and illuminating graphics. He is the designer, illustrator, and author of The Tarot of the Saints, The Buddha Tarot, and The Vampire Tarot.. He is the author of The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination, which Booklist has said "may be the best book ever written on that deck of cards decorated with mysterious images called the tarot." He also the author of Astrology and Divination, Magic and Alchemy, and Shamanism, which are part of the Mysteries, Legends, and Unexplained Phenomena series. He has published a reprint of The Alchemical Tarot, titled The Alchemical Tarot: Renewed and recordings of his classes on alchemy and the Tarot. He is currently working on his sixth deck, The Tarot of the Sevenfold Mystery. Robert is a gifted teacher of the Western mystical tradition and the history and philosophy of the Tarot. He has conducted lectures and workshops in education centers throughout this country and in Italy, including the Open Center, Omega Institute, The New York Tarot Festival, and The Reader's Studio in New York, The World Tarot Congress in Chicago, The Southeastern Regional Tarot Festival in Florida, The Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum, and The Museo Dei Torocchi, in Riola, Italy. He has appeared on the Discovery Channel series Strictly Supernatural and his work has appeared on The Learning Channel, Animal Planet, A&E, and the television series Moonlight and Monk. He has been a guest on numerous radio shows including The Woodstock Roundtable on WDST-FM, People are Talking on WKZE-FM , Mystic Musings on KKUP FM, and Darkness on the Edge of Town on KTLK FM.