Tarot of the Morning Star
2007
Roger Williamson
USA
Art Medium:
The medium is difficult to identify and this has been photographed and modified so that the image is slightly out of focus and softened. These are likely to have been paintings in acrylic or oils.
Description:
The artwork is printed in a soft focus style with few hard edges, giving it an ethereality. Williamson seems primarily inspired by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, thus many of the card designs use Egyptian forms. The 'Morning Star' of this tarot appears to be Lucifer, the Biblical Angel of Light, and many of the images incorporate the interweaving of light. His Fool is a portrait of Lucifer. The imagery is somewhat redolent of the coloured imagery William Blake printed in the margins of his poetry. He comes up with some wonderful new envisagings of the familiar arcana. One is his Hanged Man which delightfully metamorphoses into a bat. The deck comes in a solid red box with a paperback book in which he outlines how his ideas emerged out of his study and experience of the Western Magical traditions. The cards are numbered only by Hebrew letters.
