Olga Voloshyna is a member of the Association of Tarot Professionals Tarosophy, author of articles in the international magazine Tarot Chronicles, practising magician and holistic therapist, creator of the Oracle of the Abyss (the world of Qliphoth, demons and hellish demonology), and now the author of the Fragment of 1000 the Moon Tarot.
She is also a former athlete in the bikini fitness category and is currently a judge of the international category in bodybuilding and fitness in the WBPF federation.
The Fragment of 1000 the Moon Tarot was created using the AI technology provided by Midjourney.
After two years of unsuccessful attempts to draw the cards herself or find an artist who would feel her, Olga saw a publication by British Tarot reader, scholar and author Marcus Katz about creating a deck for the Order of Everlasting Day using AI technology. That gave her the impulse to develop her deck with the same method.
The Fragment of 1000 the Moon Tarot is based on the book “Shards of the 1000 thousandth Moon” written by Olga.
It is the story of an ordinary girl called Arysya who one day remembers that she is not so ordinary. There is not only this familiar world to her but also another mysterious and complex one, in which everything is clearly predetermined, and she occupies not the last place.
The world of the Thousand Moon, with its mystical clans and creepy “time eaters” – Chronographs, is increasingly persistently affected by memories, visions and strange encounters.
Arysya accesses this world by dreaming, and awakening the memories will be painful and necessary.
Arysya, drawing parallels between the real world and the world of totem clans, finally learns to accept herself and understand the nature of what is happening to her.
It is also a story of self-love and the love of people close to our hearts.
Ultimately, the Moon will break into thousands of fragments, falling into our hearts like seeds and rising again.
At a closer look, the Fragment of 1000 the Moon Tarot is more of a Tarot-based Oracle than a traditional Tarot deck. It is not only built on an original story but follows the standard structure of a Tarot deck, offering a different path of development and interpretation.
The four suits of the Tarot are reassigned to four clans.
Each clan has its specific features, laws and nature of relationships.
The Wands are associated with Lynxes, Chalices (Cups) with Owls, Swords with Wolves and Pentacles with Snakes. These species are transposed in the imaginary of each suite.
Also, the four suits are attributed to various phases of the Moon: Wands with the full Moon, Chalices with the waning Moon, Swords with the waxing Moon, and Pentacles with the new Moon.
According to Olga, the Minor Arcana cards transmit messages about practical and everyday life aspects. She provides original keywords for each card departing from the Etteilla/Waite standards.
The Major Arcana cards deliver messages on vast and deep topics that reflect how we perceive the world. The Wheel of Fortune has been redesigned and named as Source. With few exceptions, such as the Tower, most cards depict characters rather than archetypes.
The deck’s theme is fantasy and represents a departure from the standard Rider-Waite-Smith pattern. The artwork is quite dark, setting an overall gloomy vibe for the deck.
I would have preferred more consistency within the design of the suits. For example, the Ace and Two of Chalices feature similar chalices, but the Three and Four of Chalices present a different type of vessel. The Owls associated with the Chalices are also not present on each card. These kinds of details can make a difference. However, the white captions help identify the cards quickly.
It’s not a deck that is easy to read at first sight. Those accustomed to working with the Rider-Waite-Smith type of suggestive graphics will find it more difficult to adjust to this deck. The meaning and possible interpretation of the cards is not always perceptible.
On the other hand, the fantasy vibe of the artwork may suggest another path to imagining connections and creating stories.
The sequence of the cards seems to follow the original story. However, extracting cards and rearranging them randomly creates new and new stories.
Olga promises a consistent guidebook, but due to the war situation in her home Ukraine, the completion of the work has been delayed.
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