The Golden Dawn Temple Tarot is a modern deck resulting from the collaborative working of a triad.  Occult author and Golden Dawn magician and researcher, Nick Farrell, worked alongside artist, adept and experienced meditator Harry Wendrich in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, before establishing the Magical Order of the Aurora Aurea.  His decades of experience and research of Golden Dawn ritual and symbolism illuminated the specifications laid out in Book “T” of the Golden Dawn manuscripts, upon which this deck is based.

Harry and Nicola Wendrich used meditations specifically developed to engage and communicate with the archetypal forms and forces within the Tree of Life.  They then pictorially translated and incorporated the material received to build upon the framework provided in the traditional documentation, which included revising and updating traditional colour assignments.   

A unique feature of this deck is the vivid borders that connect each card with its placement on the Tree of Life glyph with a visionary updating of colour attributions to include the primary colour Magenta, which was unavailable as a non-fading pigment at the time the original Golden Dawn colour theory was recorded.  The inclusion of Magenta in this deck brings an exciting, evolutionary step to the colour magic of the Tarot, and also brings an increased accuracy and vibrancy to the flashing colours used in both borders and images.   

Thus the archetypal frequencies had their own input regarding the composition of the images, both from that which has been recorded and referred to since the earliest days of the Golden Dawn, to that which is communicated within our modern Temples.  For the Golden Dawn is a living and vibrant tradition, developing and enlarging, as our consciousness expands, our visual capability increases, and modern technology enhances and facilitates the revelation of things perhaps known since the dawn of antiquity… perhaps even now just coming to light.

The Tarot: Major Arcana Study Page displays many more images from this deck, with accompanying articles written for Hermetic Virtues Magazine.

The back of the cards was originally coloured in a plain dark (racing) green.  This colour was shown to Nicola in a dream and verified in Harry’s subsequent meditation to be the colour best suited to the backing of this deck.  The colour holds an energy of a high intelligence and has the effect of quieting the mind of the user whilst also generating a grounding (earth) energy. 

2017 saw a reprinting of the deck with the addition of the rose/ankh centred on the same racing green background.  This revised design helps to offset printing difficulties which can accompany solid colour printing.  Please note that all purchases from 21st May, 2017, feature the revised back cover design (see image).

A companion to the Golden Dawn Temple Tarot deck, this study is relevant to all students of Tarot and Kabbalah.

From the back cover:

A Sephirothic Odyssey takes us on a journey upon the Tree of Life with the Tarot Cards.  As we climb the Tree on the Path of Return, we meet the archetypal forces which shape our life experiences, and learn how their balance enables the kundalini serpent fire to rise within us in preparation for entry into deeper levels of consciousness.

The Golden Dawn Temple Tarot is examined in terms of its archetypal and astrological symbolisms. Harry and Nicola also share the updated colour theory developed within their painting of the deck and insights gleaned through meditations, including teachings from the devic realm regarding the creation process from within Ain Soph.

Through completing the journey, we perceive the link between love, light, and consciousness which enables humanity to partake in Universal Consciousness and explore extra-dimensional awareness.