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On the Black Tarot

A stained glass window can compel you to think about the story it tells.  The Black Tarot is evocative in a similar way.


A tarot card can be viewed as a scene from a mythic story, playing out the dance of a pantheon.  Reading from a book of tarot reveals part of the ongoing saga. The wisdom in it comes from deriving the moral of the story.

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While not exhaustive, the traditional minor arcana are generally regarded to represent these categories:

Wands: fire, energy
Pentacles: earth, materiality
Swords: air, intellect
Cups: water, emotion 

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Likewise, the following relationships can be helpful when reflecting on the Black Tarot:
Spheres: fire, logic, energy, origin
They are the energy underling the universe, just a point and a radius, the simplest objects that can be defined.
Snakes: earth, ethics, materiality, nature
They are the natural material world, including the wisdom of life.
Keys: air, epistemology, intellect, tools
They are the methods and tools the life of our universe uses to shape it, and are manifestations of intellect.
Stars: water, metaphysics, emotion, congruity
They are the shimmering water of the night sky and the the spiritual congruity that links the universe.

 

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video review by Faith,

of Faith in the Stars, and the Hex Kitten Club

video review by Stacey,

the Black Feather Intuitive

video review and flip through by Kellie,

of Charmed Tarot

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Kickstarter

Thank you very much to everyone who made the Kickstarter campaign a success!

You can check out the campaign page here:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blacktarotcards/the-black-tarot-cards

On Games

A tarot deck can be used to play games.

If you remove all the Princes/Princesses/Pages as well as the Major Arcana you can use one like a poker deck.

You can also play this
game.

Artist Statement

I wanted to make art that was magic and religious.

I devoured everything that felt magical and made iconography for a religion that didn't exist.  As it turned out, this tarot deck is an artifact from a religion in its infancy.

If the cave paintings in Lascaux were done by an agnostic archeologist making an earnest effort to craft a tool for divination it might have turned out something like this.

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