The Hero's Journey 78 Card Deck, Book and Box Set

About The Hero's Journey Tarot Set
Hero's Journey is the unpublished cards from Arnell's first deck and is the older, wilder sister to Transformational Tarot. The collage art combines contemporary imagery with old world art. This is a full size, 78 card handmade deck with signed book, signature card, and handcrafted, collaged box. The original cards were done by hand with a pair of cuticle scissors, glue stick and stacks of art books, old comics, greeting cards and magazines. It takes a full week to make this set. The cards are color copied off the original collages, cut out and individually pasted onto the specially designed backs and trimmed. They are then cut, laminated and trimmed a final time. This is a time consuming process and the reason for the high cost of the set.

* Note In an effort to make this deck set a bit more affordable, while keeping the look fresh and unique, a new box style is offered from Fall 2009. These new handcrafted boxes feature 3 cards from this deck with different background art papers which compliments the deck art featured (2 versions shown below). Each box is a one of a kind artwork signed by Arnell. The box has a smaller art work fastened on top, (collage on thick cardstock to give it more dimension). The inside top of the box also has Hero's Journey card which has been collaged onto thick cardstock. There is art from a 3rd card featured on the bottom inside of the box. The top and bottom of these boxes are larger than the center section, giving it added distinction. And the bottom of the box has 4 polished glass 'shoes'. These new boxes are quite charming and each one is an original artwork in itself. To celebrate this new style of box, the Hero's Journey set will now be $15. less (than their original $200. price) until further notice. Yay!
It's been nearly 15 years since Hero's Journey was created, so in 2005 Arnell spent a few months rescanning each handmade card and refining the collage detail in Photoshop in the hopes of offering a higher quality version of this deck without altering the original collage concepts. The spiral bound booklet has a streamline look and thumbnail pictures of all the cards. All artwork is handcrafted by Arnell from start to finish.

To celebrate the 2005 - 10th anniversary of this deck and until further notice, all Hero's Journeys will have the familiar lizard, snake and spider card backs in their original full color (linoleum stamping) rather than the standard B & W version. Thank you for supporting handcrafted indie Tarot artwork.

New Box Dimensions: 5 3/4" long x 3 3/4" wide x 2" tall (14.61 x 9.53 x 5.10 cm.)
Cards: 3" x 5" (7.62 x 12.7 cm)
Spiral Bound Booklet size: 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" (21.59 x 13.97 cm.)