Codex Obscurus Tarot | Major Arcana

CODEX Obscurus is a collective artbook featuring the work of 145 artists from around the world. Their artwork depicts a range of material, including folkloric themes from the artists’ home countries or their own interpretations of the occult.

You can order the book at LiberDistri.

Alongside the artbook, I am also publishing a Tarot deck in the same style, featuring an extended 26-card Major Arcana deck, all created by the exceptional artist and designer Viktor Pushkarev, who also created the book’s cover.

Just like the cover of the book, the Tarot card deck was created by typographer and designer Viktor Pushkarev. It depicts the Major Arcana cards plus four extra cards that complete Viktor’s vision of the Glarunika alphabet — an original melange of runes, pre-Cyrillic Glagolitic script, and Arabic numerals — which he specially designed.

Viktor took his time studying the history of Tarot: when it was used, by whom, and why. His studies culminated in a deck of 26 cards, created to correspond with his Glarunika alphabet. Numbers play a big role in this deck and are visible not only as Arabic numerals but also through the inclusion of the Hebrew alphabet and symbolic, numerical usage of symbols such as stars and skulls.

This adds options for how the Tarot deck can be used, how names can be decrypted, and meanings that can be unlocked. All this will be explained in the booklet included with the cards, which are made from high-quality playing card stock, both in a beautifully designed two-piece box.

The same box will contain a booklet explaining how to use the deck. The explanations are created with the assistance of Paul Mountfort (PhD) who is a writer, researcher, and workshop leader specializing in oracles and the Celtic and Norse traditions. He is the author of Ogam: The Celtic Oracle of the Trees