You can now order a copy of the
Schiffer edition from Amazon:
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Images from the Schiffer Publishing
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Major Tom's Tarot of
Marseilles was born out of an on-going study which involved study of all 78
cards of the tarot over 78 weeks as proposed by Jmd at the
Aeclectic Tarot Forum. Starting on 21 December
2003, I began studying one card per week until the 2005 Melbourne International
Tarot Conference. I started by studying the Tarot of Marseilles as
published by US Games Inc./ Carti Mundi, but have expanded to include the
Dusserre Dodal, the Heron Conver, the Burdel which is published as Tarot of
Marseille by Lo Scarabeo, and Le Tarot de Marseille published by Fournier, as
well as, as many different versions I could find
on-line. As part of my study, I produced this deck which
I finished on 15 June 2005. The concept behind the deck is to stick
to the iconography of the Marseilles deck while depicting the characters in
modern dress. It is my feeling that the Marseilles patterns would be
accessable to more people if the characters weren't in historical clothing,
thus it became my task to try to figure out what each of the characters in the
Marseilles tarot would be wearing today.
All images of the
ATS edition copyright ©2003, 2004 & 2005 by Thomas Schick.
To create these images I started by drawing in pencil on an A4 size sheet of
drawing paper. I then went over the lines with a black roller ball
pen. Next I scanned the images into PhotoShop where I cleaned and
coloured them. The images are displayed here are approximately one
sixth the size of the originals.
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I attended the
Melbourne International Tarot Conference in July 2005 as a
presenter. It was an amazing event that will live on the the hearts
and minds of all the attendees. One of the more exciting things that
happened to me was that the event sponsers,
The Association
for Tarot Studies, decided Major Tom's Tarot of Marseilles was important
enough to warrant publication as a limited edition of 50 to commemorate the
Conference. You might be able to obtain a copy of the ATS edition
through Tarot Garden:
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Check out..
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