INFORMATION FOR PUBLISHERS
Target Audience for the Transformational Tarot -- individuals interested in general self-development: people who like the Transformational Tarot covers a broad range, including Buddhists, Tarot fans and collectors, Toltec practioners, and New Age Spiritualists What makes the Transformational Tarot different Intent of the Transformational Tarot -- The Transformational Tarot purpose is to serve as a tool in self-actualization. It uses single words and images to allow you to see what is current in your life and enable you to increase awareness, step into the present, and touchbase with ones' own inner resources and intuition. -- this deck explores the ideas of internal mythology, self-actualization, Zen Buddhism, and Toltec mastery. Form -- the major and minor arcana images are from original paintings from the last 15 years of work; because my original intent in creating these paintings was NOT to illustrate a Tarot deck, they have an enigmatic quality, suited to looser interpretations than generally allowed in traditional Tarot. -- it uses single words for the pip cards. These words are distilled from the meanings of the same cards in the equivalent suites. The use of single words, instead of multiple meanings allows for a wider variance in the reader's interpretations, permitting a more introspective, personal, and poetical interpretation of each of the word (or pip) cards when they appear in a reading. -- instead of the traditional suites of cups, swords, wands, etc. I have used their original elemental meanings, and psychological symbolism: cups = the water suite, which is related to emotions; swords = the air suite, which is related to the intellect or mental activity; wands = the fire suite, which is related to action, and risk-taking; pentacles or coins = the earth suite, which is related to the material world, money, and practicality. -- the cards are nearly square, the backs use an Escher-like pattern of repeating cubes, the pip cards use icons for the suites on a black background. Function -- the interactive version (online and on CD) allows easy access to the card meanings through the action of rolling over the card in question. -- there are no reversed meanings in the interactive version -- for some reason, it is more difficult to read a reversed card on the computer -- so there are double the amount of pip cards, making the amount of cards in the interactive edition number 117, instead of the traditional 78. This would be corrected in a print version (see below) The Printed Version -- a printed version of the cards would function a little differently than the interactive version. It would be closer to the way a traditional deck functions; wherein you have to look up the meanings or know them or intuit the meanings. A printed deck would also be closer to my original idea; the shuffling and reading of the spreads creating ever new meanings by the random juxtaposition of enigmatic (single) words and images. -- each pip card in the print version will have two words, one for each direction, reversed in relationship to each other, returning the number of the cards in the printed deck version to the traditional 78 -- contact us if you are a publisher who wants to publish the Tarot. Links try the Tarot (allows
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