Celestial Tarot Deck by Steventon & Clark

From the publisher, U.S. Games Systems: the Celestial Tarot is both a handbook of the heavens and an oracular guide to the inner life. The twenty-two cards of the Major Arcana are represented by the twelve zodiacal constellations and ten planets, and each minor suit represents one of the four astrological elements. The accompanying booklet introduces the greater mysteries with a chart of astrological and elemental correspondences, and the card descriptions explore the mythological archetypes of the major and minor arcana, brought to life by the artwork of Kay Steventon.

The deck is the work of artist and astrologer Kay Steventon, who also created the Spiral Tarot, together with astrologer and author Brian Clark. While it keeps the traditional tarot structure, with the suits of Wands, Cups, Swords, and Pentacles and a court of King, Queen, Prince, and Princess, it is built throughout on the traditions of astronomy, astrology, and mythology.

For as long as people have looked up, the night sky has been a screen for the imagination. The ancients traced figures among the stars, gave them names and myths, and read the wheeling planets for a sense of time, fate, and meaning. The Celestial Tarot gathers that long tradition of astral divination and marries it to the reflective practice of the cards.

Tarot itself is a tool for reflection rather than fixed fortune. Its Major Arcana trace the great turning points of a life, while the Minor Arcana speak to daily texture and choice. Here that familiar map is overlaid with the older language of the stars, so that the twelve zodiacal constellations and ten planets carry the Majors, the four elements anchor the suits, and mythic archetypes run through every card.

For those who love astrology as much as tarot, this is a deck that rewards patience and deepens both arts. It asks a little more of you than a strictly scenic deck and gives back a richer, more layered way of seeing whatever question you bring to it.