Etteilla Tarot Reconstruction: First Septenary

2022 March 20

I’ve started a new project– a reconstruction of the Grand Etteilla. (The deck name won’t be “Etteilla Tarot Reconstruction,” I assure you. It’ll have some overly fancy name. That’s just a placeholder for now.)

Sacred Seven in the Coins

2022 April 1

Instead of continuing on to the second septenary of Majors, in order, I realized that practically speaking, I had better try my hand on some of the pips early on and figure out how I want to approach pips and reversals.

*The Four Virtues: Justice, Fortitude, Prudence, and Temperance*

Progress Notes on my Etteilla Redux

2022 April 22

Kinda funny how on 4/22/22 I completed exactly 22 cards from my Etteilla redux deck.

*This is a study of The Accolade (1901) by Edmund Blair Leighton.*

Etteilla Deck Art Update

2022 August 18

I’ve gotten a bit undisciplined, or at the very least haphazard with the order I’m drawing these cards. I hop and skip around the deck, arbitrarily picking what to draw next based on my whims.

Finishing the Second Septenary

2022 May 3

Getting superstitious and making sure I end on a “happy card” before going on a hiatus (I have an I Ching book to finish editing).

Trying to Resume the Etteilla Doodles

2023 February 15

Practice Pays Off: An Etteilla Dooodles Update

2023 March 15

The Hard Slog to Continue Deck Doodling

2023 August 2

“On a table or altar in the temple of Ptah at Memphis, at the height of the breast of the Egyptian Magus, were, on one side, a book or collection of cards, or plates of gold (the tarots), and on the other a vase.” – P.R.S. Foli (1915) on Etteilla’s Magician card.