Description
OOP SEALED ~ Spirit Keeper’s Tarot Revelation Numbered, Limited Edition 2nd Print ~ Immortal Orders: a highly collectible hand-illustrated 78-card tarot deck (with 2 additional versions of Key 0, for a total of 80 cards) inspired by late Renaissance woodcut prints, with symbology based predominantly on medieval European alchemy, Hermeticism, Zoroastrianism, astrology, the Kabbalah, Abrahamic angelology, Egyptian mythology, Sufism, and late Renaissance Christian mysticism.
The narrowly-tailored premise of Spirit Keeper’s Tarot is to transform tarot keys into calling cards for accessing a spirit world of beneficent immortals, making this deck one that is sought after by many.
In pursuit of revealing a prisca theologia, a primordial truth about divinity, the Spirit Keeper’s Tarot journeys back to our cradles of civilization. This is a deck that integrates ancient theologies from disparate corners of the world.
The Revelation is the third of three editions from the Spirit Keeper’s Tarot family, finally revealing the deck’s architecture and design in full-color.
While the earlier two editions focused on delineating ideas, with human depictions being merely archetypal, in the Revelation, ideas are concretized and given specificity through names, faces, cultures, epochs, and civilizations.
The linework for the Revelation Edition illustrations are still done by hand on paper, then scanned in and prepped for digital coloring.
This coloring process was tedious, and the coloring work for a single card could take up to 36 hours of intense handiwork, in addition to 15 hours of staring blankly at the screen, trying to decide on colors and how to design the patterns.
For linework that calls for greater precision or symmetry, such as with architectural designs, the base drawing is done by hand with a stylus and tablet.
The foundational principle of the Spirit Keeper’s Tarot is animistic in its premise. A speculative (and oft-chided) premise in Western occultism is that tarot cards are living beings, that there is a spirit embodying each one. Each card is ascribed certain characteristics, tendencies of behavior, and qualities, just like any sentient creature. It’s subject to predictable habit, but also subject to spontaneity in any arbitrary moment.
Included:
• 80 cards, 2.75″ x 4.75″ on 350 gsm cardstock, gilded (gold edging), matte finish
• Card showing your decks Eight Immortal Order on Hand-signed autographed certificate of authenticity confirming the print run number
• 2-piece top and bottom lid deck box, 1200 gsm, matte finish
• 80-page perfect bound little white booklet (same size as cards; fits in box)
• One Title Card
• One Magnet
