LiteraTarot Oceania

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The theme of this deck series is great classics of literature, either contemporary or of the past. The goal of this project is to merge a recognizable element of literature to the traditional and symbolic meaning of a specific Tarot card image. This fusion comes from the esoteric value that in the distant past was connected to heraldry, whereas the image (called “the body”) was joined to a maxim or ‘motto’ (referred to as “the soul”), forming a commemorative “coat of arms”.
The project includes 5 decks, one for each continent. This collaborative deck by 22 artists from Oceania was hosted by Fern Mercier & Lyn Olds.

Pat Reble
0 - Matto/Fool - Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne

Keron Smith
I - Bagatto/Magician - Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

Ronnie Wiblin
II - Papessa/High Priestess - The Sibylline Prophecies

Aileen Flynn
III - Imperatrice/Empress - Homer’s Hymn to Gaia

Jason Dean
IV - Imperatore/Emperor - Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Louise Sadgrove
V - Papa/Hierophant - The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Project Host: Fern Mercier
http://www.tarot.net.nz/
VI - Amanti/Lovers - Psyche and Eros by Apuleius

Melanie Cook
VII - Carro/Chariot - The Owl and The Pussycat by Edward Lear

Helen A Meinicke
http://farsighttarot.com/
VIII - Giustizia/Justice - Pomera (Banksia), one of the Dreamtime Stories from Stradbroke Dreamtime by Kath Walker

Catherine Ballantyne
IX - Eremita/Hermit - The Envoy From Mirror City by Janet Frame

Claudia Pond Eyley
X - Ruota di Fortuna/Wheel of Fortune - The Monk’s Tale by Chaucer

Ben Scott
XI - Forza/Strength - Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey

Bron Deed
XII - Appeso/Hanged One - Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Kaz Blennerhassett
XIII - Morte/Death - Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

Sarah McKenney
XIV - Temperanza/Temperance - Angel at my Table by Janet Frame

Linde Rosenberg
XV - Diavolo/Devil - The Bible

Roisin Kearney
XVI - Torre/Tower - Tower of Babel Genesis Chap 11. Bible

Mala Mayo
XVII - Stelle/Stars - Manon de Sources by Marcel Pagnol

Samar Ocean Wolf Ciprian
XVIII - Luna/Moon - The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy

Project Host: Lyn Howarth-Olds and Scott Olds
XIX - Sole/Sun - Maui and the Sun

Steve Farac-Ciprian
XX - Giudizio/Judgement - Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Lynda Robinson
XXI - Mondo/World - Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll