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History of the Maroon Tarot (excerpt from "The Maroon Tarot Companion" )

The Maroon journey begins with the Fool, a pre-natal breath that tickled the consciousness of the deck’s creator, Maja Zaworowska. Gradually, the breath became a thought and the idea was fanned into life.

Maroon Tarot is a child of a dream and imagination: the dream of my own, individual Tarot deck and the imagination of a young and prolific artist, Tomasz Maroński. For Tomasz it is just one of numerous contracts nowadays, but one that he has put lot of passion in. For me, it’s a dream come true, the dream nourished for over a decade.

November 1989 saw the fall of the Berlin Wall and the face of Eastern Europe began to change. For the first time in decades freedom to travel was reinstated, and families that had been arbitrarily divided at the end of the war were reunited. For young people, it was their first chance to leave the borders of their own country and see the world. Maja took advantage of this and in the nineties spent some time in the United States. Once in America she was able to buy her first pack of tarot cards – the Mythic Tarot – and it was a love of myths and legends that drew her to this deck. Tarot had become an important part of her life, and as often happens with artistic people involved in tarot, the idea of creating a deck of her own began to take hold.

In 2006, Maja placed an advert on a publishing website for professional artists, but without specifying what the project entailed. She did not want to scare a potential collaborator away by mentioning tarot, so decided that discretion was the best approach. Even though there were no details of the commission she received 30 replies, the final one being from Tomasz Maroński. A believer in following gut feelings, Maja responded only to Tomasz`s application as she had felt such a strong connection to his art. For Tomasz, it was an exciting project, as although he had no knowledge of tarot, he was aware of the opportunity to create his own world and people it with his version of tarot archetypes, characters and situations.

In fact, this world already existed for Tomasz, as much of his art draws on the imagination and the dreamscapes of his inner world. He was thus able to move seamlessly into tarot and translate its messages in a thoroughly individual way that used his expertise in sci-fi and fantasy to brilliant effect. The light that illuminates every card in the Maroon Tarot is inspired by childhood experiences in the surrounding forests, and by the quality of light and colour found there. As tarot was a new medium for Tomasz, Maja set about explaining the traditional meaning of each card, showing him examples from the Rider Waite and Thoth decks to illustrate the point, and setting out guidelines for each illustration.

The point is that the Maroon Tarot has been painted / created by a man who is “clean” of any knowledge about tarot, not interested in it at all. I liked that because I just did not want him to fill the cards with his beliefs about tarot... Before he started working on the deck, Tomasz was like a 'tabula rasa', innocent and I think he stayed the same. I believe he was used as a vessel. I think that there were some energies involved in the creation process as if they wanted to free themselves.

Having absorbed the information and ideas presented to him, Tomasz began the process of creating the artwork for the deck. As with all the Twos in tarot, there was agreement and disagreement, but eventually a balance was reached. Tomasz, being an artist, had his own ideas for the cards, and as a creative person, the stereotypical aspect of tarot illustrations was something he wanted to steer away from. For Maja, with her knowledge of tarot, some of his ideas were far from what she had envisaged, so there were creative differences; but as each card appeared the Maroon World slowly began to take shape. The birth of the Major Arcana in 2007 marked the point when the Maroon was released as a Majors only deck. A clever play on the artist`s surname, the “Maroon” title is also appropriate because of the dark nature of the cards.

There is already a tradition in respect of the Maroon Tarot. In the interval between the release of the Majors only deck and the appearance of the Minors, there was a competition on the Maroon website that awarded reader interpretations of the Major Arcana cards. Readers found their own meanings in the imagery, and many of the competition entries were powerful and poetic in their intuitive journeys through the archetypal world. The scope and depth of understanding demonstrated the power of the imagery presented in the 22 trump cards, a style that was carried through in the cards of the Minor Arcana, released in 2009, which finally completed the deck.

This then is the Maroon Tarot, borne out of the very real experiences of Maja Zaworowska and Tomasz Maronski. As the Magician demonstrates, creativity is an insistent master that can never be snuffed out, even when buried in semi-darkness. Biding its time in the quiet waters of the High Priestess, this creativity was eventually given the chance to blossom although the dark heart was always present. Nevertheless, freedom of expression colours the Maroon World and brings hope to every card, however bleak the apparent message may, at times, be.

The addition of a card to represent the Reader was an innovative idea of Tomasz’s, as he did not feel the deck was complete without a Reader to interpret the other cards. It is the tarot reader who brings any deck to life and the Maroon Tarot is unique in recognising this truth and giving it full expression. Maja writes that in creating the Maroon Tarot, she acted as the trigger, with Tomasz meanwhile the tool used to produce the deck. As the third part of the triangle, it falls to me to describe the result of the first two stages, and to hint at the possibilities inherent in the deck. Maja has referred to this work as my translation of the Maroon Tarot, and this is a good description of the process. The Maroon World already existed – now comes the ‘guide book’.

Here then, we have a non-traditional tarot: innovative but still recognisable as the tarot. From its images we weave the life of the Maroon World. Three is a recurring theme throughout this deck as it is throughout life. The Maroon Tarot and all the creativity and inspiration within it, is the blueprint – the plan. This blueprint is offered to the reader in invitation; to explore its boundaries and unlock the potential it contains.

The Maroon Tarot leads its own life. It is you who shape the deck, your thoughts and emotions give the meaning to the cards. – Maja

Да и я о том же сейчас прочитала...


Ну это уже как мне кажется чистой воды обман Мариши раскрылся
Я лично в жизни не забуду, у кого и что я заказывала..Тем более такую колоду...