Major Tom's Tarot of Marseilles
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[edit] Creator(s)
Major Tom Schick
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ISBN 999999
[edit] Date of Publication
2005
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The Association for Tarot Studies
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Major Tom's Tarot of Marseilles was born out of an on-going study which involved study of all 78 cards of the tarot over 78 weeks as proposed by Jmd at the Aeclectic Tarot Forum. Starting on 21 December 2003, I began studying one card per week until the 2005 Melbourne International Tarot Conference. I started by studying the Tarot of Marseilles as published by US Games Inc./ Carti Mundi, but have expanded to include the Dusserre Dodal, the Heron Conver, the Burdel which is published as Tarot of Marseille by Lo Scarabeo, and Le Tarot de Marseille published by Fournier, as well as, as many different versions I could find on-line. As part of my study, I produced this deck which I finished on 15 June 2005. The concept behind the deck is to stick to the iconography of the Marseilles deck while depicting the characters in modern dress. It is my feeling that the Marseilles patterns would be accessable to more people if the characters weren't in historical clothing, thus it became my task to try to figure out what each of the characters in the Marseilles tarot would be wearing today.
All images copyright ©2003, 2004 & 2005 by Thomas Schick.
To create these images I started by drawing in pencil on an A4 size sheet of drawing paper. I then went over the lines with a black roller ball pen. Next I scanned the images into PhotoShop where I cleaned and coloured them. The images are displayed here are approximately one third the size of the originals.
I attended the Melbourne International Tarot Conference in July 2005 as a presenter. It was an amazing event that will live on the the hearts and minds of all the attendees. One of the more exciting things that happened to me was that the event sponsers, The Association for Tarot Studies, decided Major Tom's Tarot of Marseilles was important enough to warrant publication as a limited edition of 50 to commemorate the Conference.
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