Portal
Collaborative deck blending David's portal art with tarot knowledge and symbolism.
by David Works, Traci Darin · Self Published Deck Type: Tarot Deck Cards: 22 Rating: stars out of five Where to
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The record
The Portal Tarot came into being when Traci, by chance, found David's art on the Internet. She was struck by the beauty of his 'portal' images, wrote to suggest the art would make a wonderful tarot deck, and the collaborative deck was born. (Traci brought the tarot knowledge, as, according the companion booklet, David had only the barest idea of what tarot was previously.) More a meditative deck for self-awareness than for divining the future or doing relationship spreads, the cards of the majors-only Portal Tarot are not designed on traditional or historical tarot symbols. Portals are explained as the gateways to sacred space, a point of transition, an entrance to the Mystery, and as such the cards are an exploration of the archetypes of tarot. The art is computer generated and has been printed to retain as much detail and colour as possible. The landscape of imagination holds fractals, spherical patterns and three-dimensional shapes, mandalas, helices. Only the Hierophant and the Hermit show human figures; the former encased in bubbles at the foot of the 'altar', and the latter encased in crystal. For the most part the symbology is alien, as though set on a different planet settl
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