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This complete tarot contains 78 illustrated cards including 22 major and 56 minor arcana. Each card will be composed of an illustration and its name in english, with as reference the divinatory Tarot of Marseille. You will find a more detailed presentation of the cards in the ARCANA section of this page.
The format chosen for this tarot inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos (3.35" x 6.50" | 85×165 mm) is much larger than the usual divinatory tarot decks, including the Tarot of Marseille. This format is close to one of the oldest tarot decks, the "Visconti-Sforza" created by the artist Bonifacio Bembo between 1428 and 1447.
Given the large size of the cards, we have chosen a rather important weight (315 gr) which combines flexibility and rigidity. The R'lyeh edition silkscreen deck is printed on an OldMill Avorio paper (350 gr), which has a light cream tint, with a black silkscreen ink which allows a very deep rendering.
All decks will be delivered with a 64-page booklet (2,95" x 5,90" | 75x150 mm), printed in black and white (32 pages in English, 32 pages in French) that will help you with the interpretation of each card.
The Miskatonic and R'lyeh pledge tiers will also include Kickstarter exclusive components:
160-page softcover book,
A black cotton drawstring bag (6.1" x 8.2" | 15,5x21 cm) with a red silkscreen print to store your deck,
Amagnetic box with hot stamping metal print,
14 Fine Arts, printed in color on fine paper (6.1" x 8.2" | 26x14 cm),
4 enamel Pins (size: 4,5 cm | 1.77"), featuring the 4 emblems of our Minor Arcana,
A limited edition of a 79-cards silk-screen printed deck (only in the R'lyeh edition).
The softcover book is bigger and larger (4.8" x 6.2" | 12,2x15,7 cm) than the booklet included with the Deck. Its content is also very different: the whole story of Isaac Jefferson's researches, interpretive poems, the iconography of each card fully explained as well as their links with the Myth. The book interior design is inspired from ancient books, illustrated with engravings and printed in two colors, black and a red pantone.
In the Fall of 2019 (a more innocent time), I started creating tarot themed collages. At the time, I only wanted to do a few card designs and move on; I wasn't really interested in completing an entire deck. I have worked in digital collage for a while now, but hadn't gone into a project as specific and extensive as a custom Tarot deck before. However, with the start of the pandemic and the loss of my job, I found myself with more free time than ever before. So it was the perfect (or maybe just rare) opportunity to dedicate myself to such an expansive and detailed project. My happy to say that over the past several months, I have design my own original tarot deck, The New Immortals, and I could not be more excited and proud! With my designs, I wanted to create a mythical fantasy world that the cards and their figures share. With my deck, I will be including a small booklet with a backstory for the characters and worlds featured on my cards. I hope to give my supporters a tarot deck that feels original, imaginative and personal.
A little more detail about the deck:
78 beautiful tarot cards which includes 22 Major Arcana and 56 Minor Arcana each card features a completely original digital collage design
card stock is high quality game card standard with a linen texture - a high quality flexible and durable, and perfect for withstanding riffle-shuffling
high quality rigid box packaging Contains a base and a lid that fit together to keep the cards inside protected
comes with a booklet explaining the original mythology behind the design of the cards and tarot reading basics
it's a limited edition of 250 decks
If/when we get close to full funding, I will start to explore stretch goals with backers
The Gnostics were a sect of spiritual seekers who relied on a first-hand experience of the Divine rather than the orthodox pontifications of a self-appointed clergy. As a result, they were branded heretics by the Catholic Church. Their pursuit of inner experience continued in secret, appearing through the ages in such groups as the Cathars, the Alchemists, the Theosophists, and mystics the world over. Jung viewed Gnosticism as a map to the development of the human psyche based on an experiential awareness of the Self. The Gnostic Tarot is an expansion of this idea of psychological Individuation and spiritual awareness drawing on the traditional understanding of Tarot meaning as refined by the Golden Dawn.
Each suit of the Minor Arcana is represented by its corresponding element: Fire [Wands], Water [Cups], Air [Swords], and Earth [Pentacles]. The 22 cards of the Major Arcana echo the traditional Marseille and Rider-Waite-Smith Tarots, while adding unique meanings and allusions of their own from psychology and esoteric teaching. Each Court card is represented by an Archetype. In place of out-dated royalty, these Archetypes are represented by a Boy and Girl and a Man and Woman. The Male suits of Fire and Air are headed by patriarchs while the Female suits of Water and Earth are led by Matriarchs. Aside from the Court Archetypes, many of the characters in The Gnostic Tarot exhibit an unspecified gender, leaving the question of gender open for the Querent.
