Scions of 777

Scions of 777, the book I promised, is finally ready for pre-order. Order now at TarotCart.com for December delivery. I had said I would finish it by the end of summer, so I am about a month late, but here it is!

This book turned out to be more than just a reference for the deck. It really could be two books, one about aspects of the Telos deck, and one about tarot, the decans, and magic. But for me they were and are intertwined. I ended up re-organizing it as two interwoven volumes, but the two are printed as one book under one title and cover. So you get two books in one!

Scions of 777 is a 598-page book containing two volumes in one book: Volume 1, subtitled Six-and-thirty Decans, and Volume 2, subtitled Forty-two Truths.

Volume I, Six-and-thirty Decans

Volume I, Six-and-thirty Decans, is all about the 36 decans, and the 36 related minor cards of Telos Tarot, with a focus on magical praxis. This is a sampling of what you may find there:

• Image magic and magical viewing
  *Deck consecration – simple method
• Making talismans, both permanent and temporary
• Invocations, evocations, mantras, magical alphabets
• Magical materia
• Methods for “loading” a talisman
• Ephemeral talismans and talismanic actions
• Obscure, eclectic, and diverse magical practices that relate to the energies and correspondences of each decan
• Comparison of different decan image traditions and their descriptions
• Hellenistic and Ptolemaic deities, some you know, and some that are obscure
• Process of making the Telos Tarot of 777 deck
• Symbolic visual elements of each design explained
• Embedded astrological and Qabalistic correspondences
• “Artist notes” with behind-the-scenes inspirations, technicalities, models for and influences on the image
• Explanation of the esoteric elements of the card back design
• The cards in divination
• Tarot magic
• The decan walk
• Unique spreads
• Proactive spread magic
• Other: fixed stars, divinatory lotteries, PGM rites, and horoscopic decan interpretations

Volume 2, Forty-two Truths

Volume II, Forty-two Truths, covers the Majors, Aces, and Courts, with a focus on magic and alchemy.

• Magical use of the Majors, Aces, and Courts
• Difference in use between zodiacal, planetary, and elemental majors
• Astrological timings related to the creation process of Telos’ elemental majors
• Delineations of the reasoning behind the complex symbolically “correct” descriptions of the majors, aces, and courts according to the Hermetic Golden Dawn
• New method of elemental empowerment and consecration of a deck used for magic, based on the Emerald Tablet
• The Seven Hermetic Principles
• Correspondences
• Alchemical considerations, old/ traditional and new assignments from my own speculation and contemplation
• Elemental majors and portals of the three
• Planetary magical effects, weapons, and epithets of the seven
• Zodiacal mottos and purviews of the twelve
• Aces as magical tools
• Court cards: their faces and shadows, rank, modality, and elemental considerations
• Court cards as souls of people and their shifting traits
• Court cards as significators, and choosing one
• Court cards as situations
• The uniqueness and power of Princess cards in esoteric tarot
• Symbolism in the art, and Artist Notes for inspirations behind the art
• Card meanings in divination
• New and unique spreads
• Sources, references, and recommended reading for both volumes

A new edition of Telos Tarot of 777 available

In the interest of having a Telos deck sized for portable magic applications, there is also the opportunity to pre-order a copy of a new edition of Telos Tarot, in the more portable mid-size at 2.625×4 inches. The mid-size can be pre-ordered with or without the book, to ship in early December.

The holographic decks also come in large, but only with pre-orders of the book. The new editions do not have the double sided traditional impressed foil of the first edition. The new edition has a new holographic card back design, beautiful saturated color, and smooth slice-cut deck edges. Due to popular request, it is printed on the same cardstock as the Tabula Mundi deck you know and love, with similar holographic effect. There is not a little book for this edition, nor the stele on the box, and it is not numbered. It comes with 79 cards plus a signed title card, in the Scorpionic green two-part box with the foiled phi symbol and green satin ribbon lining.

Here is direct link to deck: https://tarotcart.com/thoth-inspired-tarot-decks/telos-tarot-of-777-holographic-mid-size-deck/

Pre-order now for December delivery. Depending on circumstances, pre-orders may or may not close at the end of October so I can place the quantity with the print shop in time to get these for earliest December shipping, so if you want either of these items please order now. Once I place the order with the shop, if the rest sell, there won’t be more until next year. Thank you for waiting for this book!

Here is direct link to book:

https://tarotcart.com/thoth-inspired-tarot-decks/decans-tarot-book-scions-of-777