CALL FOR ARTISTS

This deck is a work in progress. If you're an artist allured by the ideas of quantum physics and how they relate to archetypal forms and our personal experience, please enter the 'Prospective Artists' link above or send pictures of your artwork to: quantumphysicstarot@gmail.com

READ THE BOOK

The major and minor arcana links above contain examples of the deck's subject matter. These are samples from the book that will accompany the artwork of The Quantum Physics Tarot.

THE ALCHEMY OF COMPLIMENTARY OPPOSITES

The Quantum Physics Tarot entwines two inroads of exploration that compliment and complete each other. Both quantum physics and the tarot explore the depths of innermost spaces, one physical, the other intangible. While quantum physics penetrates the physical with objectivity to provide facts, the tarot delves into the subjective realms of consciousness to acquire meaning. Although both domains can be enigmatic and unpredictable, quantum physics and the tarot each seek to enhance our understanding of the world from opposite starting points and with different means.

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NATURE OF THE QUANTUM

Physicists have made surprising discoveries about the way matter/energy behaves within its smallest domain. At the quantum level, even the subatomic particles that comprise our bodies can disappear and reappear in different locations. Until it is measured, the particle is everywhere and nowhere. Discoveries about the quantum may eventually lead physicists to an understanding of our universe that includes additional dimensions, or reveals the existence of other universes, confirming that we really inhabit a " multiverse." Physicists hope to navigate this illusive realm to distill the essence of all physical law into one unified theory.

THE ESSENCE OF THE TAROT

The tarot invokes symbols, ancient and modern, that draw up meaning from the innermost depths of our consciousness. Just as seeing or hearing something while awake can trigger the memory of a dream, the tarot's imagery can bring aspects of the unconscious to our conscious minds. Symbols point to a deeper meaning that cannot be fully expressed by the symbol itself or completely encompassed by the conscious mind. The psychoanalyst Carl Jung called these organs of meaning archetypes and believed them to be the sources from which all myth and, indeed, all human creativity springs. He proposed that these forms originating from our unconscious are drawn from a well of the psyche accessible to all humans, and called this shared inner space the collective unconscious. Examining how universal themes of the tarot relate to our own lives can reveal a bridge of meaning amid the restless fog between our inner and outer worlds.

The astounding attributes of the quantum realm and threads the tarot pulls from the collective unconscious remind us of the invisible wonders underlying our everyday world. They remind us that we are connected, however unapparent that connection may be, to the magic embedded within existence.