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Day 6 of #occultober

We’ve finished my tarot decks, but I do have some tarot cards left. Uel Aramchek and Lays Farra created additional major arcana cards picking up where the originals left off. They looked to extend the pantheon to include he modern cybernetic era.

I like these cards. The idea of an updated major arcana and the snarky artwork appeals to me. The accompanying text said a full deck was coming, but alas, it never came.

I wish it came with a box. 😔

https://laysfarra.com/portfolio.html
http://www.northofreality.com/

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Day 5 of #occultober

Suzanne Treister’s Hexen 2.0 Tarot

Another full replacement of the card, although the names remain. Instead of replacing the drawing she replaces images with references to things, people, and organization associated with the advent of 1960s cybernetics, computing, and computer networking.

The art is very underground comic, and it relies too much on words scrawled all over the cards. It’s an interesting project, but the artwork is rough. For a visual medium, she really found a way to tell and not show.

https://www.suzannetreister.net/HEXEN2/HEXEN_2.html

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Day 4 of #occultober

My favorite deck, the Science Tarot. What I like about it is that everything is changed. The suits, the names, the face card names, everything. And yet, the suits still correspond to the original suits, alchemical elements, and specific fields of study. The minor arcana follow the Fool’s Journey. The new face card names still embrace the archetypes of the original. Unlike most novelty tarot decks, someone actually did the homework and gave damn. They even made up new spreads like the benzene ring and periodic table spreads.

The accompanying booklet doesn’t just give the normal meaning of the cards, but explains why the new name and image was chosen.

It’s very well done, and the art is pretty good as well

https://www.sciencetarot.com/

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Day 3 of #occultober

Aleister Crowley redid the tarot deck for the O.T.O. He changed all the images in the minor arcana, and most of major arcana. He also reordered and renamed the major arcana to better fit Golden Dawn correspondences with qabalah, the elements, and the zodiac. (The qabalah is the skeleton key for pretty much all of the golden dawn’s theories.) Interestingly, he gave unique names to all the pip cards, something not usually seen outside of art tarot decks.

I appreciate all the geeky work Crowley did here. It was huge undertaking, but I never really liked the art. It’s super dense with garish colors. (Garish colors being another Golden Dawn staple.)

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