The Making of a Tarot Deck

Abstract

We of the twenty-first century can barely fathom the world of the specialists who composed, visualized, and assembled the alchemical manuals.

Key Words:

• alchemy
• Death card
• Tarot
• Tarot cards
• Tarot of the Holy Light

Additional information

Notes on contributors

Christine Payne-Towler

CHRISTINE PAYNE-TOWLER is author of The Underground Stream: Esoteric Tarot Revealed (Noreah Press, 1999). She also wrote the interpretive Tarot text in use at tarot.com. She and Michael Dowers created Tarot of the Holy Light, voted one of the ten best decks of 2011 at tarotforum.net. Her most recent book is Foundations of the Esoteric Tradition (Noreah Press, 2016). Her degree in mysticism and parapsychology is from John F. Kennedy University. Correspondence: [email protected].

Michael Dowers

MICHAEL DOWERS has always leaned toward the world of graphic arts since he was a senior in high school in 1968. He learned the craft of printing with small printing presses in the business world. In 1982 Michael started publishing comic books under imprint of Starhead Comix and spent the next sixteen years learning about the business side of the comic book industry. Working for other publishers and distributors over the years left a strong sense of how the comic book world operates. With nine years of experience working for Fantagraphics Books, from warehouse manager to Eros Comix editor and many jobs in between, Michael Dowers has had a lifetime of self-publishing experience. Correspondence: https://noreahbrownfield.com/contact/.