Crowley Thoth Tarot (Premier Edition - Small): Premier Edition with Small 78-Card Crowley Thoth Tarot Deck by Aleister Crowley, Painted by Lady Frieda Harris, Astrological & Qabalistic Symbolism, Includes Booklet & Full-Color Spread Sheet

This is really an excellent tarot deck. I've been a tarot reader for some time and have a number of decks, all of which I love, but this one is unique. For starters, shipping was quick. Pros: - the version I ordered was pocket sized, so it's the same size as your average playing cards. The card stock is nice and they shuffle quite well. This is great for beginners who aren't great at shuffling or small hands, also will fit in a card shuffling machine. - The artwork is intricate, beautiful, and rich with esoteric symbolism, as expected. I find a lot more freedom of interpretation with these cards, instead of relying on what the cards are supposed to be. -This is really a brilliant beginner's deck: traditionally, it was designed for the cards to be read upright (no reversals), which can help with learning. The focus to learn is more on the Major Arcana and the Court Cards -Crowley added in a couple extra to the Major Arcana, which while not necessary, are really a lovely and unique addition -each card has an identifying descriptor to help portray its strongest characteristic -I have been working with these daily for a little over a week since I received them, and they're spot on accurate. It's honestly a little ridiculous, considering I've spent time looking at my other cards wondering between interpretations. -They came packaged in a nice outer box, and then another box within, it's not hardcover nor would I expect it to be for the price. It does come with a full booklet on the cards. -Cons: They came wrapped in cellophane and had a very strong plastic -new card print smell. A bit of incense and a couple of days got rid of it. That's it, no other cons, get this deck.

The head of the Masonic group that holds or held the copyright to the deck says he personally re-photographed the paintings used for the deck and I believe him. However AI/the internet indicates that the owner of the physical paintings, Warburg Institute, did a subsequent professional cleaning and then scanned them (early digital cameras have a hard time matching later scan technology, and of course cleaning helps). So it’s not clear where the tea lies in term of best possible reproductions on the marketplace; I’ve seen internet images of some Atus that are startling, but without provenance, I can’t tell if they are more accurate than this edition, or just simply jazzed up. These issues having been noted for the sake of pedantry, it’s a fine, clear, beautiful deck lovingly photographed and loving printed (by famous AGMuller). So if you have an earlier version, by all means get this version too, you’ll notice stuff you missed before or thought was just due to the artist’s bad hair day. But wait there’s more! Resident OTO scholar Wm Breeze has put together a Little White Booklet (aka LWB), as the free skeletal instruction pamphlets packed in tarot card boxes are called, and is it ever a doozy. It’s a micro opus. An occult education and teaser all in one. While you don’t even have to know who Crowley was to enjoy and use this deck, arm chair observers like myself will probably tell you that the deck and the booklet are excellent PR pieces for the outfit that follows AC’s system (which is called “Magic” not AA), the fraternal/sororal OTO. No patronizing holier-than-thou agenda. And, unlike hide and seek efforts by shy magicians in the past (Levi et al), everything is laid out without “blinds and double blinds”, tricks and deceptions for the uninitiated - outsider or member, the same truths. The only comment I would make is that I find this deck so tantalizing close to “sacred” that I use mine just for meditations and rumination, and pull out an old Rider/Waite/Smith deck to dazzle my friends with readings that are so consistently backwards, I’m tempted to say “of course just reverse everything I tell you, and you’ll be amazed!”. & you do know that meditating on these or other good Tarot cards can usher energies into your life? Or help you cope with inner plane energies, if you are already feeling them.

I had been reading tarot for twenty-seven years when I began to hear warnings about this deck and how people got all kind of spooky vibes from it and felt the need to steer clear of it. I had never owned a copy, but I'm not much for basing my choices on the anecdotes of ill-informed and frightened people. That was twenty-nine years ago. There were plenty of pretty decks and cute decks and simple decks and cartoon-like decks and while some of them appealed to me on a very basic level, none affected me spiritually. None cut through the layers of emotion and intellect that surround this common yet frequently misunderstood tool for divination, magick and meditation. This one did. It might be said that there's no such thing as bad press and all the warnings had simply awakened me to a source of power I had overlooked. If I bought a copy, which I did, I didn't expect Aleister Crowley to jump up from the other side of the table accompanied by high winds and lightning, but neither did I anticipate how sometimes brutally honest and alarmingly accurate this deck might be. It cut through the fog and offered clear and unambiguous advice. You might wish it was wrong. You might live in denial until its prognostications came true. Somehow, you could not deny the uncanny truth it delivered without fluff, equivocation, and fairytale explanations so many other decks offered. How many tragic choices have been made because cutesy decks felt it kinder to soften the blow and blur the truth? This deck will not lie to you. It will not cushion the blow. It will not blur the truth. Even if you are only minimally competent in tarot reading, it will offer you clarity. Whether you are wise enough to follow the advice given is up to you. But this isn't only a divinatory deck. Its carefully cultivated imagery by Aleister Crowley and artist Lady Frieda Harris literally draw you into the deck. In swirling patterns, your soul and mind are drawn. You move through the layers of the multiverse to a place within the deck from which you can learn and unlock secrets of the world and your life. You can also control them in accordance with Will and you can meditate upon them, comingling with the beings therein and taking knowledge from them. These are not easy beings or pleasant beings or nice beings, but wise beings who are not there to serve you, but who are ready to assist the worthy. Whether you are worthy or not depends on you. Here, the deck becomes a psychopomp, an initiatory guide. In the absence of reliable guidance in this day and age, the spirits of the deck can not merely take you on the Journey of the Fool, but on campaigns of understanding and enlightenment throughout your many lifetimes. This is a living deck and the aforementioned beings are very, very real whether you choose to acknowledge them or not. They care not what your opinion of them might be. Wisdom is for the strong and the strong are those whose eyes and minds are open and waiting to receive.

I am very satisfied with this set of cards, first of all the excellent quality and what really surprised me was that the cards are from 2023 with a new design of shades and back. Above all, a new booklet from AMG Urania. Excellent purchase

Je le trouve très bien. Oui les cartes sont grandes, et c'est bien pour cela que je l'ai acheté. Il existe en taille plus petite. C'est un très beau jeu. J'ai eu une petite crainte suite à une critique qui disait que les cartes sont trop fines. Je ne partage pas cet avis. Elles sont aussi fine (ou épaisse) qu'un tarot de Marseille chez Fournier ou un Belline chez Grimaud. Peut-être que comme les cartes sont bien plus grandes, on ait l'impression qu'elles sont plus fines... Personnellement, encore une fois, je trouve ce jeu très bien. Et avec la politique de remboursement chez Amazon si l'on n'est pas satisfait, il n'y a pas de hésitation à avoir... enfin, c'est ce que je pense... surtout à ce prix là. Cordialement

Premetto che non sono un erudito dei tarocchi di Crowley. Sono bellissimi, molto grandi e di ottima qualità. Non ho mai avuto l'opportunità di tenere in mano le stampe più antiche ma l'impressione è un po' plasticosa data la forte lucentezza, in foto sembrano più pastose di quello che sono. La scritta sullo sfondo "Triumps" mi da molto fastidio perché confonde la lettura del vero nome dell'arcano sovraimpresso, ma probabilmente fa parte del disegno originale. Sono corredate da libretto con istruzioni. Sono talmente dense di simbolismo e dettagli che nonostante la grandezza si sente l'esigenza di portarle molto vicine agli occhi, come se la stampa non fosse molto definita. Ad ogni modo sono entusiasta dell'acquisto.

I just looooove this deck. The quality of the cards is quite good. They are sturdy, as long as you handle them with some care. The size is indeed quite big. Especially the breadth becomes a bit cumbersome to fit within the palms while shuffling, as the whole deck is decently heavy. But I'm not complaining, I knew what I signed up for. Not to mention those are the proportions in which Harris had designed the layout. The large size definitely helps in studying all the minute details and symbolism in every artwork, as even the tiniest and faintest of details hold meaning and play a significant role in understanding the overall esoteric implications of every card. Not to mention the large size of the artwork also generates quite a visual and visceral impact when a card is turned over. My only feedback for improvement would be, to improve the quality of the outer package. The quality is quite flimsy. Maybe it is the same thickness as the cards themselves, but since as I mentioned, the deck is quite heavy, the regular packaging is not able to hold the cards inside snugly. The top flap keeps flipping open by the weight of the deck and the cards keep slipping out. So I have to always hold it precisely in a horizontal position, and not tilt it. It's been difficult to find a box to keep the cards of this size and proportion inside, so a sturdier packaging would have helped. This is just an extra design related observation. I understand that the artworks are a direct reproduction of Harris' paintings. But decades later, we do live in times of smartphones, and our eyes have become accustomed to richer colors everywhere. Mayyybe, the saturation of the artworks could be very slightly tweaked, so that we get richer and vibrant colors, to generate more of a visual impact during readings. Because some of the artworks look kind of washed out and faded. Also, I know these are legacy cards and they will sell without any marketing or branding efforts. But just out of reverence and celebration of the legacy itself, the graphics on the packaging could be designed a lot more beautifully, instead of just superimposing two artworks on the back and on the front (why Two of Disks and The Chariot though, is there any specific reason for it?)

La caja es muy grande, pero el tamaño de las cartas es normal. No es una edición de cartas grandes. Un pak que viene muy completo. Incluso con un tablero que te enseña a hacer la tirada según U.S. games. Súper excelente.