The Mary-el Tarot 2nd Edition

The Mary-el Tarot – Second Edition is a profound and visually intense 78-card tarot deck that explores the deepest layers of spiritual, psychological, and mythological symbolism. This edition presents the complete and expanded vision of the Mary-el Tarot, offering a powerful tool for advanced tarot work, self-exploration, and transformational insight.

Known for its raw honesty and uncompromising depth, this deck invites the reader to engage with archetypes, shadow, divinity, and inner truth in a way that is both challenging and illuminating.

Depth, Shadow & Sacred Symbolism

The Mary-el Tarot is not a light or decorative deck. It is designed for serious inner work, exploring themes such as creation, destruction, power, vulnerability, transcendence, and rebirth. The imagery draws from multiple spiritual traditions, sacred geometry, myth, and psychology, creating a layered and demanding reading experience.

Each card acts as a portal into deeper awareness, encouraging reflection beyond surface meanings and inviting personal interpretation through intuition and lived experience.

Creation & Artistic Vision

The deck was created and illustrated by Marie White, whose visionary artwork defines the Mary-el Tarot as one of the most distinctive and uncompromising decks in modern tarot. Her work is expressive, symbolic, and emotionally charged, intentionally breaking away from conventional tarot aesthetics.

The Second Edition completes the original artistic vision with refined artwork, cohesive symbolism, and a fully realised structure.

Tarot Structure

Major Arcana

The 22 Major Arcana explore creation, identity, power, sacrifice, and spiritual awakening through imagery that is raw, archetypal, and deeply symbolic.

Minor Arcana

The 56 Minor Arcana depart from traditional scenic illustrations, instead focusing on elemental force, emotional states, and internal processes:

• Pentacles – Physicality, survival, embodiment
• Swords – Truth, conflict, mental clarity
• Wands – Will, desire, creative force
• Cups – Emotion, intuition, inner worlds

This structure supports intuitive, symbolic, and psychological reading styles rather than formulaic interpretation.

Product Details

• Cards: 78 tarot cards
• Edition: Second Edition
• Deck Type: Tarot
• Creator & Illustrator: Marie White
• Publisher: Schiffer / Red Feather
• Theme: Shadow work, mythology, transformation, spiritual depth
• ISBN: 9780764357169

The Mary-el Tarot – Second Edition is best suited to experienced tarot readers, shadow-work practitioners, and those drawn to deep symbolic exploration. It is a deck for transformation, truth, and uncompromising self-inquiry.