The Illuminated
Innovative 53-card deck where majors and minors share dual-purpose cards.
creator unknown · 2017
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The record
You might wonder how a real Tarot deck could consist of just 53 cards. Thats what I wondered too, until I got the deck and began using and studying it. The author folded the Majors and Minors together so that some cards do double-duty as either a Minor or Major or both, depending on how the reader wishes to interpret them or where the cards fall in a layout. In other words, you can give the Major/Minor cards as much weight in a reading as you like. But all the Minors (Clubs=Wands, Spades=Swords, Diamonds=Pentacles, Hearts=Cups) and all the 22 Majors are represented and accounted for, along with the very appropriate addition of a Joker card for the Fool. The Pages and Knights were blended into a single Jack, and this works quite nicely with combining the qualities of those two court cards into one. Each card has its suit symbol and either a number or court indication, but no words are used. Author and illustrator Caitlin Keegan (an illustrator and pattern designer who lives in Brooklyn, New York) based this Tarot on a traditional 52-card playing deck, and it could work for such purposes if you like. But it can also be used just as you would any other Tarot. It actually makes pe
The cards
