Sacred India
Indian spiritual tarot found in Rishikesh, celebrating yogic traditions.
creator unknown · 2000
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My sister gave me my copy of the Sacred India Tarot. She travels to India regularly to conduct yoga teacher training programs, and was delighted to find this deck and book set in a small bookshop in Rishikesh, right next to the Ganga. I remember how pleased and excited she was to present it to me, because up until that point neither of us had ever come across anything that so elegantly brought together our respective passions, Tarot and Indian mythology and spirituality. The Sacred India Tarot is the product of just over a decade of work, a collaboration between its Mumbai based creator, Rohit Arya, and British illustrator, Jane Adams. As a Tarot enthusiast and scholar, Arya came to the conclusion back in 2000 that Indian literature and spirituality meshed so well with the structure of the Tarot that he must do what had never been done before, create a deck based on sacred Indian mythology. Although many Indian artists were interested in the project, Arya couldnt find one who had any knowledge about Tarot. A serendipitous meeting brought Jane Adams into his life, a UK based artist who happened to be deeply interested in both Tarot and Indian mythology and symbolism. The Sacred Ind
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