A sneak peek at the insane number of hands I drew for the Chime Maiden as part of the Garden of Insight Tarot Deck!
I think this is by far my favorite of the cards I painted for the deck so far, and I'm so desperate to show off the full art in the upcoming weeks!
Follow @revivaldivinations to know more about the deck!
The Garden of Insight: The Good Hunter's Tarot is a Bloodborne inspired tarot deck that has been carefully crafted to tie the world of Blood
Hunters, the Hunt has begun! The Paleblood Moon has risen!
The gates to the Garden of Insight have opened!
At long last, partake in @revivaldivinations' incredible creation: Garden of Insight: A Good Hunter's Tarot is finally live and ready for you to support!
This gorgeous project features a fully customised Bloodborne-themed Tarot deck, custom art prints, post cards, vinyl stickers, a mug, limited edition linocuts, and a fully customised guide book!
I have the great honour of being this project's Tarot consultant.
I have over a decade worth of Tarot reading experience, own a number of custom decks myself and regularly do readings for friends and family.
I have personally assigned each card to a character with attention to both the character or object within the lore of Bloodborne as well as Tarot meaning and symbolism on a deep level. I have used my experience I've gained over the years as a practicioner, but also the knowledge I've gained from books, from teachings of other Tarot readers, and from fruitful and rich discussions with other practicioners both offline and online, in addition to my deep love of the world of Bloodborne and the input from our amazing and dedicated artist team, to ensure a complex and unique deck.
This dedication led not only to a visual attunement to the lore of Bloodborne, but a lyrical one as well: The Major Arcana have been extensively renamed, and the Suits and Court Cards have been renamed. The Court Cards, for example, are no longer Pages, Knights, Queens and Kings - our Court Cards are Hunters setting out for the night, Seekers searching for insight, Saints in tune with their intuition, and Scholars full of ken.
The booklet contains all this, and more:
an intro into the deck itself, and Tarot conceptually
a guide onrenames
an intro to Tarot reading
5 fully custom Tarot spreads, including Pursuit, a spread based on the Hunter's Mark fully developed by me, with rigorous testing from both @dovenart and associates, and myself
fully original card texts for upright and reversed meanings as well as texts for all suits!
a complete bibliography of the sources used in the creation of this deck and booklet
For my fellow Tarot readers: the result is a deck with a truly unique feel and energy to it. It feels connected to the vastness of the cosmos, the brightness of distant stars, the deep dark of the ocean, the luminousity of its unseen creatures. It is a deeply personal, deeply conversational deck. I can tell that reading with this deck will be without compare. Even if you are not familiar with Bloodborne, the lavish artworks and luxurious quality of this set is absolutely amazing!
For my fellow Bloodborne fans: Even if you have never done a Tarot reading, and never want to do one, I still encourage you to treat yourself to the deck and the booklet - each of the 78 cards is a piece of Bloodborne in and of itself, from micro-fiction, to character voice, to a micro-essay. Dive back into the world of Bloodborne and immerse yourself both in its splendour and its horror.
To my fellow Bloodborne fans who also do Tarot readings: What are you waiting for!? This was made for you!! The Dream is calling for you, Hunter!!
Stay tuned to hear more about renames, card spreads, and card text previews over the next week!
May you find your worth in the joy of creation, Hunters!
A big radio silence from me, but hey, I’m still alive! @revivaldivinations is also alive, and we are almost ready to launch our project (tentatively May). If you would like a Bloodborne tarot deck to show off to your fellow hunters, please give @revivaldivinations a follow c:
Good Hunter, rest here a moment, and heal the results of your folly.
A preview for The Fool card in the upcoming Garden of Insight Tarot Deck!
You can follow the deck's progress at @revivaldivinations here on Tumblr! I can't wait for people to see what I've been working so hard on the past year!
Ah, good Hunter! How have you found yourself here? Perhaps the Dream, the Hunt, the sweet scent of blood have drawn you in once more? Perhaps you have stumbled through the narrow streets of Yharnam and once again have stuck your nose somewhere it shouldn't be?
Soon, good Hunters...
Soon, the Hunt shall begin once more.
Soon, the Paleblood Moon shall rise above the veins of Yharnam once more.
Soon, Garden of Insight: The Good Hunter's Tarot shall go live once more!
Stay tuned and follow @revivaldivinations for production updates, art previews of all ozr gorgeous card art, and booklet previews of the tarot guide I am writing!
I am on this project as a tarot consultant - the card assignments, the renamings, the card texts, the spreads developed for this project, are all things I worked on for this incredible project.
I am very excited to see it come together at last!
Stay tuned for more updates in the following weeks!
