A world you can keep entering
This is more than a deck of images. Mountains and Seas Legends Tarot is an unfolding mythic world: every card opens into a complete character story, and every reading reveals another route through that world.
A 78-card physical tarot deck · Beginner-friendly · RWS-compatible
Mountains and Seas
Legends Tarot
A beautiful Chinese mythology tarot deck for beginners and curious readers. Explore the Shan Hai Jing through 78 RWS-compatible cards and a companion guidebook.
The world
A deck with a world
that keeps unfolding.
Mountains and Seas Legends Tarot begins where the familiar map ends. Mountains behave like omens, creatures carry human desire and fear, and deities stand at thresholds of grief, courage, love, ambition, and change.
Each card connects a recognizable tarot archetype with a complete mythic character and story. Together, the 78 cards form a world readers can enter through a single image, a full spread, the guidebook, and the stories that continue beyond the first reading.
Why this deck reads differently
Ancient strangeness.
Practical clarity.
Mountains and Seas Legends Tarot keeps the familiar RWS reading structure while expanding what each archetype can reveal.
Familiar enough to read. New enough to discover.
New to tarot? The complete 78-card deck follows the familiar Rider–Waite–Smith (RWS) structure, so you can learn with widely used tarot resources. The companion guidebook connects card meanings, myth background, and reading prompts. Experienced readers can explore a new mythic world within a familiar system.
The strange made luminous, not ordinary
Gods and beings from the Classic of Mountains and Seas are redesigned with beauty, intimacy, and emotional clarity. Their original oddities remain visible; the artwork simply gives modern readers a more inviting way to approach them.
Revised by hand, layered with discoveries
Faces, hands, borders, color, symbolism, creatures, and composition have been reviewed and revised again and again. Small visual clues and mythic Easter eggs reward readers who return to a card over time.
In the hand
Light reveals the finish.
A reading reveals the world.
The deck is being tested as a real reading object, not only as a set of images. Pearlescent surfaces catch warm light without swallowing the artwork, while borders, titles, and symbols remain clear across a spread.
Selected cards
Familiar archetypes.
Distinct mythic lives.
When wanting more has stopped feeling like freedom.
Tao Tie. Tao Tie turns appetite into a mirror: desire can animate a life, and unexamined hunger can begin to consume the person who feeds it.
When vision is ready to become a practiced form.
Lu Wu. Lu Wu gathers will, skill, and chosen tools into one clear act. Mastery grows through balance, attention, and disciplined presence.
When the pause is the only place the truth can surface.
Yu Fu. Yu Fu suspends ordinary direction. What looks like stillness becomes a change of current, perspective, and surrender.
When two lives choose a shared direction with open eyes.
Manman. Manman turns partnership into a living practice. Trust, reciprocity, and chosen commitment allow two distinct lives to move with one purpose.
The guidebook
Hundreds of pages
to read beyond the image.
The planned printed guidebook runs to hundreds of pages, bringing together card meanings, upright and reversed readings, myth background, image symbolism, prompts, and practical reading guidance.
- Read
- Clear RWS-compatible meanings for beginners and experienced readers.
- Discover
- Myth background, cultural context, and the symbols hidden in each composition.
- Reflect
- Prompts that return the card to the reader’s own choices and lived experience.
The physical deck
Designed to be admired.
Tested to be used.
Materials are chosen for beauty, clarity, durability, and shuffle feel. We have tested 24 finish combinations to balance image quality with the smooth, practical handling a working tarot deck needs.
Made for the rhythm of regular reading.
- Complete 78-card deck
- Coated art paper
- Starry film finish
- Double tuck box
- Guidebook format to be finalized
A fuller object from the First Journey.
- Complete 78-card deck
- Black-core stock with press varnish
- Gold edges; selective foil under evaluation
- Magnetic rigid box
- Decision Coin, tarot cloth, and printed guidebook
Current prototypes are still being refined. Final manufacturing specifications will be confirmed on Kickstarter.
A beautiful place to begin
Your first deck. Your own pace.
New to tarot? Mountains and Seas Legends Tarot pairs a familiar 78-card RWS structure with Chinese mythic art and a companion guidebook. Start with one card, then explore the stories as you learn.
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Follow the world
into its first journey.
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