4 card creators, 7 questions, 7 answers

The Golden Hermetic and Fortune Telling Tarot 2018

The Golden Hermetic and Fortune Telling Tarot 2018

Tarot reader and card creator ‎Case Kūjaku asked the same 7 question to 4 contemporary card creators: Ciro Marchetti, Doug Thornsjo, Gary Shook and Attila Blága.
Case has been into reading cards since the late 1970s, before mobile phones and the internet, back when people left their doors unlocked and wore horrible clothes. He started out reading playing cards because in those days in New Zealand it was pretty difficult to find tarot cards, plus his mother thought they were stupid and would have just thrown them out anyway.
When he went to university in the early 90s, Case got into tarot through getting interested in psychology and reading stuff by a human called Carl Jung and another human called Joseph Campbell. He was also really into the occult, and doing lots of silly dances and reading books and stuff. Read more 4 card creators, 7 questions, 7 answers

Something extraordinary was perverted into something ordinary

Indie Deck Review (Amanda Bell): What is your favorite/most learned from/most drawn to deck? Read more Something extraordinary was perverted into something ordinary

The passions and pains of self-publishing

The Golden Hermetic and Fortune Telling Tarot 2018

The Golden Hermetic and Fortune Telling Tarot 2018

A couple of days ago I stumbled into an article written by Benebell Wen stressing the sensitive issue of self-publishing a Tarot deck. About Benebell Wen you should know that she is the author of the book “Holistic Tarot.” The article entitled “What Does it Cost to Self-Publish a Tarot Deck?” bring up exclusively the cost issues of this process. Starting on a kidding tone, Benebell Wen says that “I wanted to post this for the aspiring deck creators to crush your dreams.” Her cost calculations, on the other hand, are serious and accurate. Her write up is definitively useful, and anyone considering starting a self-publishing venture should check it out. However, I would have a couple of observations. Read more The passions and pains of self-publishing

The journey of The Fool

The Golden Hermetic and Fortune Telling Tarot 2018

The Golden Hermetic and Fortune Telling Tarot 2018

Recently I had a very pleasant conversation with one of my virtual friends regarding the correct ordering of The Fool among the cards of the Major Arcana.
My interlocutor seemed surprised when I said that The Fool does not belong to the beginning of the Tarot deck and actually, he was not placed there until very recent times.
As many other Tarot readers, he thought that according to the Golden Dawn system The Fool, numbered zero, is the very first card placed before The Magician, the card which is traditionally numbered one. Read more The journey of The Fool

The Golden Hermetic Tarot

The Golden Hermetic and Fortune Telling Tarot 2018

The Golden Hermetic and Fortune Telling Tarot deck is a traditional 78-cards Tarot deck on 70mm x 121mm, 2.75″ x 4.75″ smooth, 300gsm professional quality card stock and the first ever high gloss embossed printed Tarot deck.
The addition of raised high gloss printing with a touch and feel dimension to the cards make the difference! Read more The Golden Hermetic Tarot

Introducing the Golden Hermetic Tarot

The Golden Hermetic and Fortune Telling Tarot 2018

The Golden Hermetic and Fortune Telling Tarot 2018

The Golden Hermetic and Fortune Telling Tarot deck is a traditional 78-cards Tarot deck on 70mm x 121mm, 2.75″ x 4.75″ smooth, 300gsm professional quality card stock and the first ever high gloss embossed printed Tarot deck.
The addition of raised high gloss printing with a touch and feel dimension to the cards make the difference! Read more Introducing the Golden Hermetic Tarot

The Unified Esoteric Tarot handbook

The Unified Esoteric Tarot Handbook 2018

The Unified Esoteric Tarot Handbook 2018

The first volume of the “The Unified Esoteric Tarot handbook” is the result of over twenty-five years of research, study and practice.
The first volume consists of a general introduction to the fundamental esoteric laws and principles, and general notions of Astrology, Numerology, Alchemy, Kabbalah and Tarot. For the first time, these branches of the esoteric science are considered one, complex, unitary system deeply interconnected and not as alternatives but complementary methods of knowledge. This is not a book but a manual. Read more The Unified Esoteric Tarot handbook

About the Tens

The 10s of Sola-Busca and Rider-Waite Tarot

The 10s of Sola-Busca and Rider-Waite Tarot

I guess nothing is what it seems to be. A very representative example of how the meaning of the cards can be altered from one artist to another and art can and is misleading when someone does not know and understand the content, respectively what is behind the images. Read more About the Tens

Architecture: Etteilla’s Major Arcana

The Book of Thoth aka. The grand Etteila (1804)

The Book of Thoth aka. The grand Etteila (1804)

Tarot became quite popular – exoteric – in the last few hundreds of years, and we owe that to the French cartomancer and fortune teller Jean-Baptiste Alliette.
Jean-Baptiste was born to working-class parents in Paris in 1738 and worked as a seed merchant. Read more Architecture: Etteilla’s Major Arcana

Unified Esoteric Tarot Black Edition

Unified Esoteric Tarot Black Edition 2018

Unified Esoteric Tarot Black Edition 2018

The Black Edition and other extra options such as a specially designed and personalised card, custom boxes and double boxes, available starting on March 25, 2018.
The Black Edition are limited to 780 copies only. Read more Unified Esoteric Tarot Black Edition