The Samiramay Tarot carries its esoteric framework right on the face of each Major Arcana card, which makes it a working deck for readers who want the Hebrew letters and planetary and zodiacal attributions in front of them without flipping to a reference chart. Artist Vera Petruk drew it; Vieux Monde Express publishes and prints it in the USA on 300gsm cardstock.
What you get
- One Samiramay Tarot deck in a shrink-wrapped tuck box
- Printed in the USA on 300gsm cardstock
The cut is an accessible size meant to shuffle comfortably in hands of any size.
About the deck
Each Major Arcana card stacks several layers of meaning in its corners: the trump number, a Hebrew letter, that letter’s numerical value, and astrological glyphs. The Fool's number is 300, the value of Shin. The Moon is 90 for Tzaddi; the Star, 80 for Pe. Justice sits at 8, the older Marseille numbering, rather than trading places with Strength as it does in Rider-Waite-Smith decks.
That pattern matches the French occult school of attribution that runs from Éliphas Lévi through Oswald Wirth and Papus, where the Magician is Aleph and the Fool is Shin. If you learned on Golden Dawn or Thoth correspondences, or work with Hebrew gematria or Kabbalistic tarot, expect the letters to sit one card off from what you know.
The cards are framed in a twisted-rope border over an aged parchment ground, with hand-inked figures and loose washes of color. Titles are printed in English along the bottom bar. The courts are drawn as full figures, and the backs are black with a fine teal linework pattern, fully reversible for those who read reversals.
Who this is for
Readers who want correspondences printed on the card, students of Hermetic and Kabbalistic tarot, anyone curious about the French esoteric tradition, and beginners who learn best by seeing the symbol system laid out plainly. Good for beginner and experienced cartomancers alike, and the on-card attributions give a new reader something concrete to study while giving a seasoned one a deeper layer to work with.
