MysterEum Tarot

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www.cafepress.com/mystereum                                                                              All card images are available to be viewed at the gift shop!  The borders on the card decks are portals like the Mag and the HP above, simpler borders are on the products -- we'll change them soon, so the gifts you give now will soon be unique.  Click on the card images in the gift shop and have fun browsing the products.  When you want to come back just click on the MYSTEREUM top banner on any page & it will bring you right back here (top and side banners here take you there  :-)  ).  Decks are available for purchase here, products available for purchase at www.cafepress/mystereum !    If you purchase products in the Mystereum Gift Shop, it should bring you back here after.  Let us know if it doesn't.  Thanks!  Tried to make it fun and easy to respect the value of your time.     

If you have suggestions or special requests, they are certainly welcomed.  Just email Jordan at jjordantarot@gmail.com

Order your copy of The Mystereum Tarot Deck today!                      jjordantarot@gmail.com   $28.95 + Shipping & Handling 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" playing card size decks in a great looking box complete with 46 page booklet (lwb) + fold-out intro cardlet. The Mystereum Tarot deck is playing card size!   Great for small hands and for shuffling.

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Enjoy the video!  Mystereum Tarot: Flowing Through Inner Essence         & Listen to Leisa RaFalo's interview with deck creator Jordan Hoggard!    She puts together a great interview and has a great site!     www.tarotconnection.net  Episode 84   www.tarotconnections.com

More links we dig are waaaaaayyyyy down at the bottom below the story.  :-)

& So, you have a sense of how the Mystereum Tarot came to be . . .

The Mystereum Tarot Deck Inception Story

Reading the tarot is not soothsaying or prophecy.  I do not believe that the cards give you anything that you don’t already have, much as the future does not, either. The cards provide an archetypal image reference, a seat for your mind, a place giving place to your story. And, a good tarot reader will tell you your story much in a way that many are not accustomed to in day to day language and experience. A Reading can be as much a non-sequitur opening a part of your world as a catalyst, or directly as a guide on your path. The cards compose a graphic story of psychic place, a set of images from and into which to unfold your context oftentimes already present.

The concept of setting into the creative adventure of this tarot deck began several years back when I made a connection between the meaning of architecture and The Magician and The High Priestess. And when I say the meaning of architecture I am literally looking to the word architecture itself. There is a four-point mode of being that I enjoy for the general purpose of architectural analysis which I will use to preface this connection for conversation’s sake, and to provide just a moment of suspense. This four-point mode is somewhat existential, and I have to honestly say I don’t think about these four points much anymore unless a building really perplexes me. Things incorporate over time, are amended into the soil so to speak:

1 How does a building stand on the ground?
2 How does a building extend to the sides?
3 How does a building open and close?
4 How does a building meet the sky?

Now, for just a bit more suspense. I won’t go in to whether something has to be a building to be considered architecture. That’s another story, and tarot is the order of the day here.

OK. Architecture. The meaning of architecture. If I disassemble the word into its Greek roots, I get arche and techne, and I STILL can’t remember how to make the accent over a letter work on my keyboard. I ask that you please imagine the accent and play along. Further for your imagination, that the accent starts low on the left and ends high on the right. Accent ague? Accent grave? Imagination. Arche, techne. Say ar-kay. Tek-nay. And, here’s where I made a connection.

Arche is the first inkling, the creation, the first spark of an idea. Arche is the place of inception. Techne is the giving form to the formless, the making, the putting together of the idea that has been created. Techne is the place of conception. And, I saw The Magician and The High Priestess with their respective 1st spark, the creation of the Magician, and then the giving form, the making of The High Priestess. And though I remained fascinated with the deck and stayed my course with architecture and art, the connection didn’t stick. Or, so I thought.

Scroll forward several years to the summer of 2006 while I’m gardening, and I look up at my turn-of-the-century Victorian house (1906) and realize that I’ve been working on the cards here and there, reading text and history when I can, or simply come across it, and …rush inside and rinse the dirt off and open up the folder on my computer, and there I saw…just down the page!…The Empress carrying to full term! The Emperor overseeing! And, it came to mind that I was thick in the middle of the largest scale project I have ever undertaken, had been walking right on the burial as I amended the soil in my garden. Imagine my bright , wide eyes when I eventually came to looking at the Judgment card having a The Hanged Man moment!
Though architecture provided a form-giving metaphor for the creation of this deck, from which I lifted arche, techne, identity, place, and context, the architecture may or may not stop right there. The warm-up is oftentimes not a member of the performance. Either way or neither, though, one’s path is experienced and built, built back in upon and re-built, expanded and contracted…one’s path continually pulses through the scales of life, driven by life itself. The tarot cards are wonderful trail-markers as well as storytellers along the path. Sometimes there is the soliloquy of a single card as the context. Sometimes a card or cards speak with the chorus of the other cards to flesh out context. Most all tarot decks present a visual vitality that speaks to the mind – you can call it consciousness or anything else for that matter…but in this regard, never-mind the research in this area(s)in this regard though fitting and inspiring even…in this regard there is no proof or re-proof but life itself. In this regard we each have our own say. With vitality at a variety of scales, and incorporating the concept of all similar, each unique to the cards, to ourselves, a whole world is present and complete at each and every scale.
And there, at that point is a shell in my garden cracking open of its own accord underground, the story of the creation and making of this deck sprouted, remembering origin and destiny as one and the same maybe. Or not. The roots of tarot and architecture will flower perennially in my garden, naturalizing over time as this deck is completed and becomes dog-eared from use, naturalizing. I will move from there now to the fruits that began to come from my garden in the summer of 2006. Enjoy!

– Jordan Hoggard, January 2007

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Thanks for stopping by!                   All the Best!, Jordan