Sublime Thresholds is a Tarot Deck of eclectic and beguiling Baroque, Gothic, Romantic, and Symbolist paintings ranging from the 17th century through the Fin de siècle of the 20th century that I individually sourced, curated, digitally enhanced, designed, and aligned with major and minor arcana archetypes. On each card, the reader will find an attributed Sublime Code representative of the conceptualization of the painting’s heroic and archetypal storyline.
Sublime Thresholds Tarot is my latest deck that was funded on Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/uraniapress/sublime-thresholds-tarot
(If you order this deck, you may also wish to order the expanded Sublime Thresholds Companion Guidebook, listed on Etsy.)
-- please scroll all the way down for INTERNATIONAL ORDERS policy.
Specifications:
78 Tarot Cards: 22 Major Arcana Cards and 56 Minor Arcana Cards
10 Oracle Cards
Matte Black edging on the cards
Dimensions: 70x120 mm (2.75 in x 4.75 in)
Printed on heavy, 350 GSM casino-quality matte UV Playing Card stock - Linen texture finish.
Keywords Mini Booklet
Beautiful Solid 2-part box printed on matte UV premium cardstock
More about Sublime Thresholds Tarot:
An 88-card deck, (78 tarot cards plus 10 Oracles), Sublime Thresholds explores representations of heights of emotion, awe, wonder, vastness, grandeur, the uncanny, beauty in intensity, majestic power, dramatic landscapes, and more—experiences that go beyond the ordinary, rivet our attention, enliven and revivify us as we are taken up to thresholds where we may commune with the exalted mysteries of the universe. In a tarot arcana format, these sacred thresholds aid the card reader/diviner in personal shadow work because the point of the sublime is to simultaneously invoke a healthy sense of awe, dread, pleasure in discomfort, and delight through what is mysterious, subconscious, uncanny, uncertain, challenging, eternal, deep, and powerful.
The Latin word sublimis means elevated or lofty, from the preposition sub (up to) and limen (threshold.) Experiencing the sublime, we are taken Up to the Threshold of a feeling or experience that elevates the mind and leads to a profound uplift of the spirit. We are brought up to a liminal threshold to witness a door or passage onto pathways of delight, awe, and transcendence. The Sublime takes us out of ourselves and helps us to experience more profound connections in nature, with self, and kinship with others. It encompasses and interacts with real, mythic, epic, and archetypal people, places, flora and fauna, natural environments and dramatic landscapes, and the numinous and phenomenal beings who inhabit them. The theologian Rudolf Otto, in The Idea of the Holy, described the numinous as mysterium tremendum et fascinans, a sublime and potentially terrifying experience which we humankind tremble before yet are irresistibly fascinated and drawn, a mystery in which we are simultaneously attracted and repelled.
The ancient and original meaning of the word “Sublime” endures as a phenomenal energy prevalent and effervescent in nature. The 1st century AD Greek philosopher and theorist Longinus wrote an in-depth treatise On the Sublime, and that text had a lasting impact on Western literary theory, influencing later philosophers like Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant. From antiquity to the present, I believe the Sublime endures. So much so that I wrote my MFA Master’s thesis on The Endurance of the Sublime while at grad school for Creative Writing from 2017-2019. That thesis and the Codes of the Sublime that I created for determining the varieties of the sublime experience go hand-in-hand with the paintings portrayed on these cards. On each Sublime Thresholds card, the reader will find the attributed Sublime Code representative of the conceptualization of the painting’s heroic and archetypal storyline.
For INTERNATIONAL ORDERS:
International shipping is by Priority Mail (except Australia and New Newzealand), and the decks are bubble-wrapped twice.
Shipping times can vary. Please TRACK your package. Depending on the country, you may need to claim your package at a post office and pay additional customs fees. Buyers are responsible for checking in with their postal carrier in case they don’t leave a notification that the post office has the package. Packages that are not claimed will automatically be returned to me. Shipping fees are non-refundable.)
No returns.
Sublime Thresholds is a Tarot Deck of eclectic and beguiling Baroque, Gothic, Romantic, and Symbolist paintings ranging from the 17th century through the Fin de siècle of the 20th century that I individually sourced, curated, digitally enhanced, designed, and aligned with major and minor arcana archetypes. On each card, the reader will find an attributed Sublime Code representative of the conceptualization of the painting’s heroic and archetypal storyline.
Sublime Thresholds Tarot is my latest deck that was funded on Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/uraniapress/sublime-thresholds-tarot
(If you order this deck, you may also wish to order the expanded Sublime Thresholds Companion Guidebook, listed on Etsy.)
-- please scroll all the way down for INTERNATIONAL ORDERS policy.
Specifications:
78 Tarot Cards: 22 Major Arcana Cards and 56 Minor Arcana Cards
10 Oracle Cards
Matte Black edging on the cards
Dimensions: 70x120 mm (2.75 in x 4.75 in)
Printed on heavy, 350 GSM casino-quality matte UV Playing Card stock - Linen texture finish.
Keywords Mini Booklet
Beautiful Solid 2-part box printed on matte UV premium cardstock
More about Sublime Thresholds Tarot:
An 88-card deck, (78 tarot cards plus 10 Oracles), Sublime Thresholds explores representations of heights of emotion, awe, wonder, vastness, grandeur, the uncanny, beauty in intensity, majestic power, dramatic landscapes, and more—experiences that go beyond the ordinary, rivet our attention, enliven and revivify us as we are taken up to thresholds where we may commune with the exalted mysteries of the universe. In a tarot arcana format, these sacred thresholds aid the card reader/diviner in personal shadow work because the point of the sublime is to simultaneously invoke a healthy sense of awe, dread, pleasure in discomfort, and delight through what is mysterious, subconscious, uncanny, uncertain, challenging, eternal, deep, and powerful.
The Latin word sublimis means elevated or lofty, from the preposition sub (up to) and limen (threshold.) Experiencing the sublime, we are taken Up to the Threshold of a feeling or experience that elevates the mind and leads to a profound uplift of the spirit. We are brought up to a liminal threshold to witness a door or passage onto pathways of delight, awe, and transcendence. The Sublime takes us out of ourselves and helps us to experience more profound connections in nature, with self, and kinship with others. It encompasses and interacts with real, mythic, epic, and archetypal people, places, flora and fauna, natural environments and dramatic landscapes, and the numinous and phenomenal beings who inhabit them. The theologian Rudolf Otto, in The Idea of the Holy, described the numinous as mysterium tremendum et fascinans, a sublime and potentially terrifying experience which we humankind tremble before yet are irresistibly fascinated and drawn, a mystery in which we are simultaneously attracted and repelled.
The ancient and original meaning of the word “Sublime” endures as a phenomenal energy prevalent and effervescent in nature. The 1st century AD Greek philosopher and theorist Longinus wrote an in-depth treatise On the Sublime, and that text had a lasting impact on Western literary theory, influencing later philosophers like Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant. From antiquity to the present, I believe the Sublime endures. So much so that I wrote my MFA Master’s thesis on The Endurance of the Sublime while at grad school for Creative Writing from 2017-2019. That thesis and the Codes of the Sublime that I created for determining the varieties of the sublime experience go hand-in-hand with the paintings portrayed on these cards. On each Sublime Thresholds card, the reader will find the attributed Sublime Code representative of the conceptualization of the painting’s heroic and archetypal storyline.
For INTERNATIONAL ORDERS:
International shipping is by Priority Mail (except Australia and New Newzealand), and the decks are bubble-wrapped twice.
Shipping times can vary. Please TRACK your package. Depending on the country, you may need to claim your package at a post office and pay additional customs fees. Buyers are responsible for checking in with their postal carrier in case they don’t leave a notification that the post office has the package. Packages that are not claimed will automatically be returned to me. Shipping fees are non-refundable.)
No returns.
