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Tell us, who is Ana Groch?
 

I have a degree in Art History, Masters in Administration of Culture, and am a certified Tarologist. From a very young age I became interested in sacred languages, and especially in Tarot. I was always interested in the fusion of Tarot and Art, since I consider it an artistic work, a tool to create and transform oneself, a "Machine of Imagination", according to Alberto Cousté. I was specializing in these themes and in 2008 I created "Arcanos Argentinos" the first Tarot of artists of the region. Also an exhibition that toured various museums. I began to organize different courses and trainings, and to investigate everything related to Artists who were linked to the Tarot throughout history, a subject in which I specialize today. In 2020 I made a presentation at the Madrid Deck and Tarot Congress on the Argentine Artist SILKE who made the first human-scale tarot made entirely with natural silk threads and it was a very beautiful experience, despite interrupting part of the plans. the pandemic. I am fascinated by these kinds of discoveries.

How did you get on the tarot path? 

As a girl I adored the Esoteric. In fact, with the money that I saved from sweets, I secretly bought a deck of cards. Once, throwing them at my sister, when I was 9 or 10 years old, the "Unnamed Arcanum" came out and I got so scared, thinking it was death that I threw them away ... A few years later, I was already taking courses in Candles, palmistry, I read books on white magic ... Obviously that first shock passed after a while. In fact at 12 or 13 when I went on vacation to Uruguay, people knew that I read letters and hands and they stopped me on the street to consult me ​​... When I started my career, again I left these more irrational "questions" aside for a more rational and academic vision until they broke in again with force, like someone who keeps things in a hurry in a closet closing the door, but then when they check by opening the door they barely come back on them, because they were there ... In the middle of that stage, the encounter with the book "La Via del tarot" by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Marianne Costa undoubtedly fell in love with me and marked me and I already started to throw away the cards and get fully into those worlds ... In 2009 I contacted Alejandro Jodorowsky, and with my partner at that time we invited him to Argentina to do a "Collective Psychomagic" for Human Rights, a release of doves for peace and the disappeared of the Argentine Military Dictatorship with the Grandmothers from Plaza de Mayo, Mythical institution of our country, and icon in the world in the search for people to promote them in the nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. It was an experience that marked all of us who were involved ... I also organized a "Mystic Cabaret" with him at the MALBA, Museum of Modern Latin American Art, so from there the events related to the Tarot began.

It is known that you are part of a publishing company, please elaborate more about it?

Exactly! The new project "El Tarot de el Tango" that we carried out with Marianne Costa, which was very successful in a first pre-sale on Kickstarter and goes on sale to the public in less than a month, was the cornerstone of this BUENAVENTURA venture. Our idea is to develop the esoteric and Spanish-speaking world of Tarot decks, preferably in relation to decks that are linked to the artistic and to an original and personal vision of their authors. We are very happy with this initiative, which allows us to explore new worlds, unite unthinkable universes and create a kind of "Artistic Curation" in a field that we believe is booming and developing: Author's Decks. On the other hand, we believe that it is necessary to promote the development of esoteric products in Spanish speech. There is a growing community, especially in the last 10 years and many publications in English, French or Italian. And not to mention the last two years, with the great uncertainty generated worldwide by the pandemic. The tarot is always the most consulted in periods of uncertainty and chaos, as happened in the interwar period, but there is little bibliography in Spanish, or some very interesting decks are not reissued in our language. That would be a bit of our mission.

You collaborated in a tarot project, please tell us more about it? 

The Tango Tarot is a fantastic project, as well as an honor to develop it with one of the great Masters of Tarot masters of all time, Marianne Costa, who is also a wonderful being and of great humility. The deck brings together the work of 22 contemporary Argentine artists, who recreate an archetype or theme from the Tanguero universe. It is a very beautiful object, which tells a little about who we are, and Tango to the world (it should be noted that she is an exquisite Tanguera and singer too). As we were talking the other day, it is like a small "Pocket Art Show", a catalog of the most important creative exponents here. The Minor Arcana are guided in their numerology by the typical "Filete Porteño", declared Intangible Universal Heritage by UNESCO, just as Tango and palos are adapted as follows: Swords are Facones The Glasses are Champagne Glasses .The Oros are the Lampposts, typical of the Buenos Aires neighborhoods of "Malevos" and "Compadritos" and Los Bastos, Bandoneones. The soul of the milonga, just as we can say that it is the stick that animates the deck. In relation to the Figures of the Court, The Valets are female musicians, leveling the traditional Tarot genre a bit. The Queens and Kings are dancers and dancers and The Knights are singers, who carry the message to the other suits. For this project, we also work together with the producer Claudio Pustelnik, the designer based in the U.S.A. Diego Vainesman and the Tango historian Adrián D Amore. It is a project for which we are very happy and proud, made entirely from Argentina with love!

What projects do you have in development?

We are currently working hard on a deck with the Cuban artist Alejandro Rodríguez Rozán, about VitrauX in the cathedrals but at a specific time of day ... It is a beautiful project, in which the games of light and pastel colors predominate, starting of a great investigation on Gothic cathedrals and that happens at different times of the day, in which the different prayers and chants of the monks take place. This project will come to light in 2022 and it is truly a beauty, a small object of art, on which we have been working intensely for two years now and which we believe will be highly valued by enthusiasts of aesthetics, of innovation in the field of Creative Tarots. and collectors. At the same time, we are developing two other decks to carry out in the coming months and early 2022, but of which I still cannot give more details ... Yes, they will be two decks that unite the playful and the creative to the classic archetypes of the Tarot world, as well as to the knowledge and reality of the current world, and the values ​​through which it is crossed. 

Anything else you want to share with us?

People can find us on Instagram as "El Tarot del Tango" or Ana.Groch. In August we will probably start with online trainings for Argentina and the world. The Tango Tarot will be presented to the whole world in conjunction with Marianne Costa and the artist and tarologist Claudia Melo on October 10 at 4:30 p.m., U.S. time, 5:30 p.m. Argentine Time at the III International Congress of Deck and Tarot in Madrid.

Baraja tarot y oráculo del arca de animales (The Ark Animal Tarot and Oracle Deck)

Se les extiende una invitación a montar dentro un arca llenos de animales tales como unos domésticos, salvajes, prehistóricos y místicos. Estos animales le quieren ayudar a explorar el mundo donde ellos coexisten para que usted pueda encontrar respuestas para sus problemas cuales nunca fueron resueltos.

Este juego está compuesto de dos barajas, un tarot y un oráculo. ¡Jamás en la historia de tarots y oráculos se ha publicado algo así y la invención es genial!

En este juego la baraja del tarot consiste de 78 cartas y la baraja del oráculo consiste de 70 cartas, al combinar los dos mazos suma 148 cartas, ósea 148 animales. Las cartas son grandes donde puede ver los animales y todos sus detalles, y parece que ellos les miran directamente a los ojos hasta parecen que can a salir de los imágenes.

Ambas barajas incluyen el nombre del animal y palabras claves que dan a entender el significado de cada carta. En la baraja del tarot vienen los nombres arcanos mayores y menores. Ambos barajas también incluyen símbolos claves y sagrados cuales incorporan tierra, llamas, aire, agua, espíritu, flor de la vida y sombra.

El libro que le acompaña es un pedazo de arte y contiene 360 páginas y cada página se dedica a cada animal donde elabora sobre ellos, el significado de la carta, y lo que el animal simboliza espiritualmente. Todo el libro está impreso en color.

En este juego, la baraja y el libro se sostiene portan firmes en una caja dura que se sella magnéticamente.

Este juego de tarot y oráculo ha sido creado y publicado por Building Beautiful Souls (armando almas bellas), una compañía independiente de la autora Estadunidense, Bernadette King quien ha escrito el libro, y junto a ella la artista Estadunidense, Heidi Sutherlin ilustro las cartas utilizando fotos reales de diferentes animales.

¿Les encanta los animales y quiere saber más de ellos? Entonces coja este juego y le recomiendo que jamás se va a arrepentir. https://whatismyspiritanimal.com/product/the-ark-animal-tarot-oracle-deck/ Reseña del