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I'm Jason Augustus Newcomb, the designer of the PGM Tarot & I am so excited & grateful that you are checking it out. I know you will want to have this deck! It is a passion project for me that I have been working on for quite a while & I am so happy that it is finally complete & ready to go out into the world. Just so you know, I've been a professional Tarot reader (as well as a magical author & creator) for almost three decades & this is the Tarot that I am going to be using with my clients from now on. It is a very magical Tarot & it is really going to transform my readings, & hopefully yours too! The great thing about this deck is that it is both a tool for divination as well as a portable magical tool kit that will give you access to the magic of late antiquity right in the palm of your hands. The art is based on ancient Greek pottery, late antiquity magical gems & the talismans of the PGM. It is very much a "magical" Tarot. There are more than 40 talismans from the PGM incorporated into the deck, & I did not assign normal Tarot titles to the major arcana so they can be used flexibly in readings, & more comfortably in ritual. It is a Tarot, in that it has 78 cards, (it actually has 100 cards) but it has a lot more going on. It has 56 "minors" that are based on "black figure" pottery & 22(+22) majors based on red-figure pottery. Part of the "Homer oracle" is also incorporated in the 2-10 minors, as well as related talismans from the PGM. Unlike most modern Tarot creations it is not really oriented around Qabalah or the Rider-Waite model, but is instead much more directly related to Pythagorean & Platonic philosophy & a chthonic magical journey. Many of the oracular choices & image choices were inspired by my visionary work, but I also spent several thousand hours in papyrus manuscript archives, visiting museums with pottery & magical gem collections both remotely & in person, & studying dozens of books on theurgy, pottery, ancient magic & ancient philosophy to immerse myself fully in the project. The deck was expanded by crowdfunding backers & includes: 100 cards with 44 deity (major arcana cards) & 56 numbered or court cards containing talismanic images drawn from the PGM, many of which have never been published before in visual form. Tarot Of The Greek Magical Papyri | Pgm Tarot Deck Only
