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Earthair Experimental Elemental
Experimental photographic elemental tarot with 95 cards and core symbolism.
by CTW
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The Canon's read
Tarot Canon's own assessment, written for this catalog.
The Earthair announces its method in its name: experimental, elemental, a square photographic deck of ninety-five cards, twenty-three majors and seventy-two minors including sixteen extra courts, designed to simplify imagery down to core elements and let the reader's own response assemble the meaning. Photography stripped to essentials, stone, water, air, growth, makes it a cousin of the abstract decks, the Colquhoun and Dark Exact, but with the natural world itself as the abstraction.
The expanded structure signals a maker, credited simply as CTW, willing to rebuild the architecture around the experiment: extra courts and an extra major mean the system flexed to fit the elements rather than the reverse. Square cards read in any orientation, which suits the deck's open-response design. It suits photographic-deck readers, elemental practitioners, experimentalists who enjoy a rebuilt structure, and projective readers who want minimal steering. Those who need figures, scenes and standard counts are holding the wrong element entirely.
From the archive
An excerpt from a review at the Aeclectic Tarot archive, in the original reviewer's voice.
The Earthair Experimental Elemental Tarot is a square, photographic tarot of 95 cards - 23 majors and 72 minor arcana, including 16 extra court cards. The deck has been designed to simplify the imagery to their core elements, allowing the...
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