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News about the Transformational Tarot
Testimonials I think your Tarot site is wonderful and beautiful. I
am recommending it to all of my friends and almost 100,000 readers from
Inner Realm Magazine (January 2005). I loved transformational tarot. It is the only tarot reading
online that gave me very deep insight to the core of my problem. That
is very rare to find. Never thought a computer program would be able to emulate
the shuffling process, however, my reading was as profound as I would
have found it with cards.... What a great tarot spread! It actually helped to clarify
(and surely will continue to do so as I continue to think about it) some
of the issues I have been struggling with. Thanks! Beautiful experience - thank you! I Love your tarot deck and how it works!!! Thank you so
much for creating this! This is wonderful work. I consider this a well constructed deck, offering a truly intuitive read. This deck offers intuitive cues without the sometimes chaotic input of the card collages of James Wanless' Voyager Deck. Remarkable work. — J.H. I am very impressed with the cards and the readings they
perform. Very accurate and truthful. Just read the cards. It was great..although I feel I can
read others pretty well I'm pretty pessimistic about my own readings.
This one was great. It totally addressed current issues (shockingly well,
in fact). Congratulations. I love the art work. I would like to congratulate you on a job well done.
Very intelligent and accurate. Artist's Statement "The Ghost In The Machine" I have wanted to create a Tarot deck for years, but it was not until I was looking at Magritte's work that something inside of me clicked. I have always liked how he titles his work: the title does not describe the piece, but instead, the words of the title seem to set in place a kind of alchemic reaction in the mind. This relationship of words, image and concept is something that Magritte explored to a great depth, and something that I find quite fascinating. The combination of the mysterious image and the enigmatic words of the title serve to do what I call "stop the mind", an effect that resembles what happens during certain types of esoteric meditative practices. When the mind is stopped, something extraordinary happens: another type of thought process starts to emerge. My original idea was that I wanted to randomize the titles to my paintings. Can an image be changed when a different phrase is placed next to it? I wanted to see how the context of the words changed the perception of the image, and how the proximity of the image changed the meaning of the words. A Tarot deck seemed to be an ideal medium for my experiment. Since I work in interactive media, I started creating the project in Flash. Rather than create new illustrations, I chose paintings from the last 15 years. These images became the Arcana cards. Then I culled words from three Tarot books that I own. Throughout most of this project, I had no idea whether my Tarot would actually work: did I choose appropriate images and words? Most importantly, I had no idea if a mere computer program would be able to perform the magic of a real Tarot deck. Since the completion of the deck I have done several readings for myself and my friends. I cannot speak for the others, but when I draw a spread, the cards seem to address my current mental, emotional and spiritual state. A mysterious thing I have noted: in all the spreads I have drawn, there are some cards in this deck that have never appeared in any reading I have done for myself. They do, however, appear for others. Is this Tarot Deck merely matter of random scripts, chance, and mathematics? Or is there truly a ghost in the machine? Aliyah Marr Links information for publishers try the Tarot (allows
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