Celtic Elemental Tarot

A tarot deck grounded in Celtic mythology and Arthurian legend

• Presents the Major Arcana cards as allies, challenges, virtues, and cosmic forces, while the elemental Minor Arcana offers court cards featuring characters of Arthurian and Grail lore

• Shows you how to combine this deck with others for more complex readings and nuanced interpretations

• Presents four sample spreads and, for each card, offers divinatory meanings, challenges, and three Grail questions; along with tree lore, animal totems, gemstones, and flower essences depending on the element

This tarot is guided by the author’s Hermetic philosophy of “Imaginosophy,” which pursues how to live and dream in Otherworlds. Drawing upon extensive research on Arthurian legend and Celtic mythology, this deck enables card readers to develop intuitive awareness and multi-layered insight.

Expanding on the traditional tarot, the Major Arcana of this deck is divided into four groups (allies, challenges, virtues, and cosmic forces), with each card offering keywords, both upright and reversed, for quick reference. The Minor Arcana follows the elements earth, air, water, and fire. Among the court cards readers will recognize names like Lancelot, Guinevere, King Arthur, Galahad, and other characters of Grail lore. The guidebook presents four sample spreads and, for each card, offers divinatory meanings, challenges and three Grail questions. Depending on the element, we also find tree lore and animal totems, gemstones, and flower essences. The author designed this deck to be combinable with other decks to multiply the querent’s possibilities for integrating diverse paths to wisdom.

The Celtic Elemental Tarot is a unique deck grounded in a cohesive mythological framework and helps readers come to a deeper understanding of themselves and the challenges they face.

About the Author

Ayn Cates Sullivan, M.F.A., Ph.D., has spent four decades exploring and writing about Arthurian and Celtic mythology. She has pursued shamanic and magical initiations with John and Caitlín Matthews, and the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. Host of the podcast Wisdom of the Ages, Ayn is based in Virginia, USA, and teaches worldwide.

About the Illustrator

Belle Crow duCray holds a bachelor’s degree in fine arts and is an award-winning illustrator of children’s books. After decades in New York City and Santa Barbara, CA, she now lives and works in the boom space town of Huntsville, Alabama, where she grew up.