€ 49,95
An RWS-based deck in which the Minor Arcana are reimagined as four imaginary plant species and the Major Arcana consist of living organisms with eyes. Dreamlike, botanical and intuitive.
Orla Bird worked on this deck for two years, creating a tarot where no people appear but plants and organisms carry the archetypes.
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In most tarot decks you see people. Here you see plants with consciousness. The Major Arcana consist of living organisms with eyes, the Minor Arcana of four species of imaginary plants. It is based on RWS, but you would not recognize it from the imagery.
Orla Bird, a Croatian illustrator, worked on it for two years. What emerged is a deck that lets dreams and nature bleed into each other. The name comes from Latin: avis somnia, the dream of the bird. That image sits in the whole deck: flying, letting go, following imagination instead of reason.
The four suits of the Minor Arcana are each a different plant species, in its own colour. No people, no scenes, no narratives like you see in a classic RWS deck. Instead, the plants grow through the cards, sometimes symmetrically, sometimes branching, always with a quiet tension.
The Major Arcana are different. Here organic forms appear that hover somewhere between plant and animal. Many cards have eyes. It gives them an all-seeing quality, as if they look back at you while you read them.
The colours are soft. No sharp contrasts, no hard edges. Everything flows into each other like it does in a dream you have just forgotten but whose feeling you still hold.
Because the Minor Arcana contain no human figures, this deck asks for a different way of reading. You cannot read off what someone is doing or feeling. You have to interpret the colours, the direction of growth and the energy of the plant itself. That makes it an intuitive deck.
The structure is RWS, so the order and system will feel familiar if you have worked with it before. But the imagery forces you to let go of fixed meanings and trust more in what the card evokes in you.
Draw a card in the evening and place it beside your bed. The next morning notice what you still remember from your dreams and whether the card shows up in them in some way.
Orla Bird is an illustrator who lives in Croatia. Her work revolves around nature, symbolism and the unconscious. She worked on Avisomnia Tarot for two years, with the aim of creating a visual universe where words are no longer needed.
What makes the Minor Arcana in this deck so different?
There are no people, no scenes, no stories. Instead you see four types of imaginary plants, each in its own colour. Each number in a suit is depicted as a variation on that plant. It asks for a different way of reading, more on feeling and less on recognition.
Is this a suitable deck if you are just starting with tarot?
That depends on how you learn. If you like to adopt fixed meanings from a book, this is not your first choice. If you want to learn to trust your intuition and do not hold on to traditional imagery, this deck works for beginners too. The structure is RWS, so the system itself is solid.
| Taal | English |
| Auteur | Orla Bird |
| SKU | 0984-OB02 |
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