English Magic
Historically-set deck in Tudor England period challenging seekers to examine deeper meaning.
creator unknown · 2016
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The record
The English Magic Tarot is an unusual and engaging deck full of deceptively simple images that challenge the Seeker to look closer and think more deeply about what they are seeing, learning, and divining. The cards illustrations are set in the period of time starting with the reign of King Henry VIII and finishing at the end of the Elizabethan era, approximately 1509 - 1603. Under the reign of Elizabeth I in particular the study and practice of magic thrived. The creators of the English Magic Tarot (EMT) specify that English magic is a branch of natural magic that focuses on local lore and phenomena. Natural magic seeks to identify and utilise disparate elements of nature and unify it with 'academic occult knowledge, in order to bring about a desired result. Particular attention is paid to this unification of High (academic) Magic and Low (folk) Magic and how it has taken effect on the development of tarot. Keeping this in mind the creators of the EMT have shorn a lot of esoterica from their tarot images complex imagery being less of a gateway to in understanding, and more of a barrier. The card images have been created with the idea that as they tell stories, then the same cha
The cards
