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Each of the eighty-three full-color cards with gold gilt edging has been digitally enhanced and interpreted for the tarot format.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Symbolist artist on the cutting edge of surrealism, Odilon Redon’s work was a visual exploration of occult mysteries. His imagery—evocative of dreams and the deep unconscious—contains dark, fantastical figures from Redon’s own imagination and represents an exploration of internal feelings and the psyche. Redon’s imagery places “the logic of the visible at the service of the invisible” and thus provides a perfect pathway for the tarot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing the structure of the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, creator Nitasia Roland has allowed Redon’s imagery to naturally evolve into seventy-eight Major Arcana and Minor Arcana cards, with an emphasis on the “chimeric”—dreamlike, illusory, transformative. Five auxiliary cards deepen your tarot-reading experience: the Chimera (enhancing the Major archetypes), the Muse (relating to Cups\/water), the Loci (relating to Pentacles\/earth), the Trickster (relating to Wands\/fire), and Imagination (relating to Swords\/air).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe card meanings are presented as non–gender-specific.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eTarot Chimera\u003c\/i\u003e guidebook includes information on getting started and working with your tarot deck:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA brief biography of Odilon Redon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGuidance on how to magically consecrate your tarot deck\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSuggested traditional tarot card spreads\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFull-page tarot card interpretations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeginner and advanced tarot readers alike will discover a new, deeper side of the tarot to explore through Redon and Roland. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Creator\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNitasia Roland is a writer, poet, digital artist, and independent researcher and publisher of esoterica. 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Renaissance emblems are intimate illustrations with accompanying mottos that allegorically and symbolically express sentiments, concepts, societal concerns, and parables. These Renaissance emblems are a didactic genre of interpretive art and, within them, author and creator Nitasia Roland has discovered that their enigmatic imagery and “mottos” correspond dynamically and align perfectly with the seventy cards of the Major and Minor Arcana of the tarot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmong the many ancient and iconic images this deck portrays—plumes, helmets, swords, gemstone rings, coins, wands, clouds, wreaths, flowers, animals, and trees—Roland sees the evolution of tarot’s wands, swords, cups, and coins, as well as evocative glimmers of the Major Arcana archetypes. 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