The deck
Seventy-eight cards, drawn down to the idea
Most decks tell you what a card means. This one asks you to look. Every image is cut back to the fewest marks that still name it — a beam and a sword for Justice, a structure and the line that breaks it for the Tower. What has been left out is the room you read in.
What arrives
- All 78 cards. Major and Minor Arcana, standard Rider–Waite size, so any spread you have learned still works and any pouch you own still fits.
- A rigid box. Two pieces, lid and base, matte laminated. It survives a bag and does not tear at the corner the way a tuck box does.
- A 32-page guide. Keywords, one line upright and one reversed for every card — short enough to read with in your hand, and smaller than a card so it lifts out of the box. Ruled pages at the back for your own notes, and seven rules for reading on the last one. The full entry for every card is free on this site.
The marks
- One colour per card. Always the card’s own idea — the lightning on the Tower, the slack chains on the Devil, the edge that stops under the Fool’s foot.
- One horizon. Every card standing on the earth shares the same ground line. Cards of sky, water and suspension have none.
- A correspondence under every drawing. Its planet or sign on the Majors, its element on the Minors — so the deck teaches you the system while you use it.
- A back that gives nothing away. Rotationally symmetric, so a reversed card cannot be spotted before it turns.
Order
Drawn for this deck, printed to order. Every card was drawn from scratch — nothing licensed, nothing borrowed from another deck. None are kept in stock: yours is printed when you order it, then posted. Allow about three weeks within the United States. Your address is collected at checkout.
Learning to read it
The deck is designed to be read, not looked up. Every card is written out in full here, free — meanings are the easy half. The reading skills, and a practice partner that critiques your interpretations, are the course.