The William Blake Tarot of the Creative Imagination

William Blake, the visionary poet, painter, and mythologizer of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, argued that human creative imagination is the divine aspect of humanity. This 79-card deck uses collaged reproductions of Blake's art to make that argument tangible and accessible in a tarot format. Rather than following the standard Major and Minor Arcana structure, the deck uses 23 archetypal Triumph cards and 56 Creative Process cards organized into four suits named Painting, Science, Music, and Poetry, representing what Blake called the four primal expressions of the divine imagination.

One card has no equivalent anywhere else in the tarot tradition. The Eternity card, double-numbered as zero and infinity, draws from Blake's painting of Jacob's Dream, depicting the sleeping figure of Albion on the Rock of Ages. In Blake's mythology this is the sleeping universal consciousness, and the card invites reflection on what it means to carry within us a vision we have not yet awakened to. For students of Blake, or for anyone interested in art history and imagination as spiritual practice, this deck is a genuine pocket gallery.