Cosmic Slumber
Dreamscape tarot by comic artist Tillie Walden celebrating sleep surrealism.
by Tillie Walden · 2020
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The record
The Cosmic Slumber Tarot is an energetic and youthful deck created and illustrated by comic book artist Tillie Walden. The idea behind this deck is that dreams are a strange place that we accept without question and where the impossible becomes possible. While our slumbers are often peaceful and take us to magical places they are also a roadmap with a rich assortment of signs and symbols, that can be ominous or delightful. Our dreams are a place where pure messages are delivered without the interference of the logic of our waking lives or the interference of the relentless visual media and messages which we are daily bombarded with. This is an 80 card fully illustrated deck it has 22 Major Arcana and 56 Minor Arcana, with an addition of two clarifying cards, The Morning and The Night. For the most part The Cosmic Slumber Tarot follows the structure and visual representations of the Rider Waite Smith Tarot with the Major Arcana cards having more complex and denser illustration and the Minor Arcana being somewhat sparer in detail. The Major Arcana has no radically renamed cards, however The Magician is titled The Magus, a name not often found in tarot decks these days, and Th
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