Case was intrigued and sought an answer in his father’s library, where he discovered an inexplicable link to Tarot. Bragdon asked Case what he thought the origin of playing cards might be. When Case was 16 years old, he met Claude Fayette Bragdon, a well respected architect and occultist from Rochester, New York. He had a lifelong fascination with the occult - as a child he often experienced lucid dreams, which stoked his interest in the unknown even further. Case was an American occultist, author, and scholar interested in tarot and Qabalah. Case changed what he believed were mistakes made by Rider-Waite, something he called “blinds”. So Paul Foster Case along with artist Jessie Burns Parke created this deck in the early 1900’s. but who and what are the Builders of the Adytum, and how do they relate to this deck? Photos of colored in cards - please feel free to reach out to me via my contact form, or through Instagram DM’s or by using the hashtag #jayscolortarotīuilders of the Adytum is quite a mouthful which is why this deck is usually referred to as B.O.T.A. More interesting facts about western occultism and tarot. Spreadsĭownload Krista Cuellar’s Free Simple Tarot Spread Zine Here!Ĭard Associations Cheat Sheet - explains the meaning and/or associated keywords of every card and suite of the tarot. I’ll be adding more links to this section as I find them, please reach out to me if you have any free tarot resources you’d like to see on this page.

They are formatted to print 6 cards to a page on standard letter (8.5 x 11”) sheets with an inkjet or laser printer - there are thirteen sheets of cards (for a total of 78 finished cards!) for you to color so hopefully you can ward away boredom for just a bit longer. I created these black and white line art versions of two classic tarot decks so you could print them at home and color each card exactly the way you want. Free Printable Tarot Decks - 20 Pages of Cards to color

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