For the mystic person who has everything!

This one of a kind wooden Treasure Chest decorated by local Beaverton Oregon artist Christina Myers has 22 fine silver Major Arcana Tarot cards inside. It comes with a sheet showing the title, introduction and describes the 22 cards. The "cards" measure 1.5 inches tall and 1.1 inches wide and have a black patina on them to simulate ancient age.

Please note that each individual bar has its own characteristics due to the process of using silver clay in molds in several steps. 

This unique one of a kind item was hand crafted by Denise Hershey of Gaia's Song Jewelry (silver bars) and Christina Myers (treasure chest decoration).

MAJOR ARCANA TAROT CARD collection:

Imagine you just purchased some new land. You are out surveying it, walking the perimeter. The sun appears from behind a cloud and you see a flash of light out of the corner of your eye. You follow the flash and you come across a rotting log with a metal box. You figure out how to open it and to your surprise you find a mother-lode of silver tarot cards. The cards each have one of the major arcana on them.

When I started working in silver clay, I was using textures. Now I am branching out and using molds. Recently I found these great molds of the 22 major arcana and I started making pendants.

                  (Note: I have not been able to identify the artist who originated these card designs. If you know, please let me know so I can attribute the design to them.)

It's amazing and sometimes uncanny how tarot cards can show you answers to your deepest questions. When they are read by a skilled reader who uses their intuition and connection to source, deep personal truths are revealed and you can use them to guide your future decisions. 

Recently I became to intrigued about oracle type cards including tarot cards, I am up to 17 different decks! They are so fun. If I pull one each day, it sets the tone for the day.

My favorite tarot card expert is Janean at Tarot By Janean. If you have an open mind and heart, her knowledge is awesome and insightful.

The Major Arcana cards:

• 00-The Fool is the archetype for most Tarot decks. As the first card in the Major Arcana, The Fool is naïve and enthusiastically starting a journey. He is unaware of the dangers ahead and has no real idea of what to expect. If you get this card in a reading about yourself it means that you are at the beginning of something brand new and exciting in your life. The Fool stands for Optimism, innocence, adventure, New Cycle, and Clean Slate.

• 01-The Magician marks the point at which the individual becomes master of his or her consciousness. He symbolizes Life and Death. He exhibits charisma, magnetism, electricity, center of attention, intention, purposeful magic, asserting one's will and creating change on the material level.

• 02-The High Priestess is the place where you stop thinking and start doing. She is a pure source of personal authenticity. She symbolizes peace and war. She represents inner knowledge, silence, secrets, intuition, subtlety, knowing who you are, and personal authenticity.

• 03-The Empress is mother nature, the driving force of all creation and the archetypal mother who cares for all things. She represents nurturing, soft and gentle touch, femininity, sensuality, fertility and birth, creativity, reinvention, expansion, love and adoration, physical beauty and grace, and motherhood.

• 04-The Emperor is the archetypal father who orders everything into its proper and rightful place. He acts as our habits and strategies, reflects all order and stability. He is authority, control, domination. He takes the lead in any situation, establishes rules and regulations. Stands for knowledge in ability, self-possession, fatherhood, and intense discipline.

• 05 -The Hierophant teaches the secrets behind the world the Emperor and Empress create. He is the pope, priest, cleric, shaman, yogi, guru, and rabbi. He is an opening to the mystery of life.

• 06-The Lovers are the source of manifestation and the point of human existence. As the ultimate form of creativity, love is what we are here to experience. Love is the source of all life. Lovers represents sex, love, passion, ecstasy, romance blossoming, attraction, Eros in action, sensuality, electricity of love, spiritual ascension, making a choice, choosing a mate or soul mate.

• 07-The Chariot gathers the lessons from previous cards and places them in his vehicle and forges ahead. It symbolizes taking the reins, being in the driver's seat, knowing where you are going, keeping your eyes on the prize, movement, speed and travel.

• 08-Strength is the physical, emotional and intellectual fortitude. It filters through the world via human action, fostering possibility, stability, and healing. It symbolizes intense personal strength, doing the right thing, gentle control over a situation, effortless action, past challenges foster present strength, your actions will prevail.

• 09-The Hermit cultivates stillness by removing himself from society. Stillness feeds his soul. This stillness fosters a space of discovery and wisdom. He represents withdrawal from the outer world, avoiding the fray, quality time spent alone., reflection leading to wisdom, the spiritual practice of silence. cultivating personal energy, spending time alone in nature, reordering personal boundaries, shining the light of hope to the world around you, introspection, self-knowledge, meditation, spiritual heights.

• 10-Wheel of Fortune is the symbol of cosmic momentum. The Wheel of Fortune echoes the cycles in our life and represents fate, fortune, and destiny, past, present and future, hindsight, insight, and foresight.

• 11-Justice reflects the material world's inherent logic and all the trappings attached to it. It represents courts, laws, and public systems of justice used to keep order and control chaos. It's about our inner thoughts and judgment calls, moral ethics, work, reaping the results of effort, universal karma, legal systems and lawsuits.

• 12-The Hanged Man is depicted as a Raven in this deck. I have not been able to find out what the deck is called and who did the artwork. So, I don't know why the Raven is the one hanging. In the traditional The Hanged Man card, the man hanging is anything but still. He reflects a moment's pause, a brief interlude, an examination of the world, your situation and everything seen from a new point of view.

• 13 -Death indicates change and metamorphosis or a swift change in life that forces a loss to make room for gain.

• 14-Temperance is the winged creature of balance and integration It reflects the activation of energies, merging and flowing. It stands for balancing fun and responsibility, going with the flow, rolling with the punches. It is a natural state of harmony, and finding unique and winning combinations.

• 15-The Devil is the convenient symbol who holds the projections of humanity when they can't bear to take responsibility for their own actions. It stands for issues of power and control, addition and negative behavior, being a slave to your desire, abuse and neglect.

• 16 -The Tower is the ultimate ah-ha moment. Truth breaks through the carefully constructed story you've been using to protect the ego. Earth-shaking knowledge rushes forth with tsunami-like speed. Life will never be the same.

• 17-The Star is divine light we can engage with directly. We look to the stars; the stars twinkle back. Inspiration from above infuses the body and the life with purpose.

• 18-The Moon is the card of myth and monster, of altered states and deep internal landscapes. Dreamlike visions pass through the imagination of sleepers, artists, and seekers. The card symbolizes mysterious times and personal unease. Shamanic and meditational journeys. Twilight and walking between worlds.

• 19-The Sun represents fertility and pregnancy. The manifest nature of sunlight brings forth all life. The card often marks literal pregnancy, expansion, heat of pleasure, long summer days. The peaceful face of the sun evokes kind advice, as if to say no matter what happens, you'll be ok.

• 20-Judgment card indicates that a karmic judgment is occurring in your favor. It is a wake-up call, a call to freedom and rejoicing after a wrong has been righted.

• 21-The World card reflects you as the World dancer moving in a state of sheer perfection. The nature of the universe is now embodied inside your skin and bones, in your actions and gestures, your thoughts and feelings.

Each Bar Specifications:

• Height 40mm / 1.575 inches
• Width 28mm / 1.102 inches
• Thickness 2 mm / 0.079 inches
• Weight 20 gms / 0.14 oz of .999 fine silver 
• .999 Fine Silver

Treasure Chest Specifications:

• Height 8.5 cm / 3.25 inches
• Width 6 cm / 2.5 inches
• Depth 6 cm / 2.5 inches
• Weight 97.2 gms / 3.43 oz (4 gms of .999 fine silver )
• Wood, brass, and paper with .999 Fine Silver and CZ logo on top

* The tarot card descriptions were gleaned from Llewellyn's Complete Book of the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot by Sasha Graham and published by Llewellyn Publications Woodbury, Minnesota.

You can find quick online descriptions at www.Tarot.com  or use a google search to find other great information about Tarot Meanings.

Each bar is a thick .999 fine silver rectangle looking like a thick playing card with a Major Arcana Tarot Card design on the front and a leaf pattern and my logo on the card back.