This is the latest addition to my tarot collection - the long-awaited Austin Osman Spare Tarot Deck. The famous chaos magician hand-painted the originals for this unique set of cards, but it's only now been reproduced in a facsimile form available to ordinary witches like me.
Strange Attractor Press produced a book about the set, Lost Envoy: The Tarot Deck of Austin Osman Spare, back in 2016, and has now published the cards themselves. Eager to get a copy, I backed the kickstarter in 2022, and am very happy to have finally received my parcel. The picture above shows what was inside the box:
- The AOS tarot cards
- A bag to put them in
- A copy of The Lost Envoy book
- Another book reproducing The Tarot by SL MacGregor Mathers and How to Tell Fortunes by the Cards by Rapoza
- Postcards with images from the cards
- A badge
This all came in a nice presentation box with Spare's monogram. I'm looking forward to using the cards and will do a reading for the world with them soon.
Copies of The Lost Envoy can be viewed on Amazon.
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Other previous related posts
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2010/02/dark-monarch-magical-exhibition.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2016/12/pagan-eye-minoan-priestess-by-austin.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2016/11/exhibitiion-austin-osman-spare-focus-on.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2024/04/a-tarot-card-for-world-today-strength.html
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