Ironwing Tarot
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[edit] Description
78-card deck and booklet self-published in December 2004 as a limited edition of 200 signed and numbered copies. 22-card Major Arcana edition (signed but not numbered, without booklet) also available. Black and white ink scratchboard drawings. Major Arcana accented with three shades of red ochre, a natural earth pigment and iron ore.
Images of all cards and links to reviews are found on the deck's homepage:
[edit] Creator(s)
[Lorena Babcock Moore]
[edit] Publishing details
ISBN: none
[edit] Date of Publication
December 1, 2004
[edit] Publisher
self-published
[edit] Deck creation and/or publication process
Printed by Spectrum Printing, Tucson, AZ
[edit] Creator's comments
From the booklet:
THE IRONWING TAROT celebrates the ancient art of blacksmithing and its connection with shamanism. The deck is inspired by nature, geology and metallurgy, and the sacred Black Metal itself. Images are nontraditional but illustrate familiar Tarot themes using original personal symbolism. The suits, face cards, and several of the Major Arcana have been renamed. Cards depict women only, offering an alternative and personal view of a traditionally male craft. Those who love the Goddess will find Her here, perhaps in unfamiliar forms, opening a path of beauty, strength, and power. Images are symmetrical and iconographic so the cards can be contemplated in the same way as mandalas or other formal abstract sacred art. They are intended to be powerful and evocative even if the viewer cannot understand everything in the picture, although studying the descriptions will make them more meaningful. Many cards have accurate depictions of obscure plants, fungi, insects, fossils, and other natural history curiosities, drawn in the style of scientific illustration. Occult and astrological symbols were avoided.
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[edit] Online Deck Images - links
Designed as a personal spiritual tool, the Ironwing Tarot was created from within a shaman's perspective, rather than simply being about shamanism.
