Enochian Skrying Tarot Deck
Why an Enochian deck is not just another tarot deck
Most tarot decks you meet are variations on a familiar picture language. You learn the pictures, you learn what they are supposed to mean, and after a while the pictures start to do the reading for you. That can be comfortable, and it can also be a trap. When the image is always the same, the mind stops looking and starts remembering. A deck built from a different system asks you to look again, and that looking is where the work actually happens.
An Enochian deck is built from a different system altogether. Enochian magick, as received by John Dee and Edward Kelly, is a system of calls, names, and hierarchies, a language given for speaking with the Angels and for ordering the work of the magician. It is not a set of pretty pictures borrowed from somewhere else. It has its own order, its own names, and its own way of describing how the world is put together. A tarot deck made in that language is therefore not a redecoration of an old deck. It is a translation of tarot's structure into Enochian terms, so that the two systems can speak to each other in one reading.
That is the point of this deck. It can be used for divination, plainly and simply, as any tarot deck can. But it can also be used for connecting with and learning more about the system of Enochian magick itself. Those two uses are not separate jobs here. Every reading with it is also a lesson in Enochian symbolism, and every study session with it is also a reading, because the cards keep showing you how the system thinks.
Seventy-eight cards, built from meaning rather than copied pictures
This is a 78 card deck, the full tarot structure, but you will not see the exact same images as the Rider-Waite deck. That is a deliberate choice, and it is worth understanding why it matters. The Rider-Waite pictures are so familiar now that many readers no longer see them at all. They see a label. They remember a keyword. The card becomes a flash card, and the reading becomes a recitation.
Here, each image and card was created using the symbolism of the meaning of the particular card. That is a different method of making a deck. Instead of starting from an earlier picture and changing its colours, the maker started from what the card means and asked what image would carry that meaning in Enochian terms. The result is a deck that cannot be read on autopilot. You have to look at the card in front of you, take in its symbols, and ask what they are saying in this reading, in this question, at this moment.
For a reader who already knows tarot, that is a useful discipline. It breaks the habit of instant keyword answers and puts attention back where it belongs, on the card itself. For a reader who is learning Enochian, it is something more. The deck becomes a set of seventy-eight small lessons, each one showing how a general human situation, the kind of situation tarot has always described, looks when it is expressed through Enochian symbolism. Over time, those lessons add up to a real familiarity with the system, not memorised from a book, but seen, handled, and read with, day after day.
Divination first, and what divination means here
Divination with a tarot deck is often talked about as if it were fortune-telling, a way of being told what will happen. That is a thin way of describing a serious practice. A reading is better understood as a way of seeing clearly. You lay out the cards, you look at the pattern they make together, and you ask what that pattern shows about the situation you brought to it: what is driving it, what is hidden in it, what is ready to move, and what is holding still.
An Enochian deck adds a particular quality to that seeing. The Enochian system is, at its heart, a system of order and hierarchy, of names that call things by their true place in the scheme of things. Reading with it tends to bring out questions of order: what belongs where, what is out of its proper place, what authority is speaking in this situation, and what part of yourself is actually in charge of it. Those are not the questions every deck asks first. They are the questions this system asks first, and for some situations they are exactly the questions that need asking.
It is also worth saying plainly what a reading with this deck does not do. No reading promises a particular outcome, and no card, however grand, is a guarantee about how events will turn out. That is about the reading and the magick, not about delivery or postage. A reading shows you the shape of a situation so that you can act in it with clearer eyes. What you do with that showing remains your work, and your responsibility.
Learning Enochian by handling it
There is a difference between studying a system and living with it. Studying gives you names and tables. Living with it gives you familiarity, the kind that lets you recognise a name or a symbol when it turns up somewhere unexpected and know, at once, what family it belongs to and what it tends to do. A deck you shuffle every day is a way of living with a system without needing a temple room or a long ritual every time you want to touch it.
That is why a skrying tarot, as this deck is named, is a fitting form for Enochian work. Skrying is the practice of looking, steadily and receptively, at a surface or a symbol until it begins to show you more than its outer shape. A tarot card is a small, portable surface for exactly that kind of looking. You can sit with one card in the morning, look at it properly, and let it teach you its piece of the system. You can draw a card before a ritual and let it set the tone of the work. You can lay a spread for a question and watch how Enochian symbols answer in a language that is not quite the language of any other deck you own.
Over weeks of that kind of use, something quiet happens. The system stops being a list of names you have to look up, and starts being a landscape you can move around in. That is not a shortcut past study. It is study in a different form, the form that sticks, because it is tied to your own hands, your own questions, and your own daily practice.
How to begin working with this deck
If you already read tarot, begin by reading with this deck exactly as you would read with any deck, and notice where it surprises you. Do not try to translate every card back into its Rider-Waite equivalent. That habit will flatten the deck into a copy of something else, which is precisely what it is not. Instead, let each card speak in its own symbols first, and only afterwards ask how that reading compares with what another deck might have said. The differences are information, not errors.
If you are new to tarot but already drawn to Enochian, begin more slowly. Take one card a day, look at it, and write down what you see in it before you reach for any book meaning. Then, if you have a reference for the card's meaning, compare the two. Your own first seeing and the traditional meaning will not always match, and the gap between them is where learning lives. Keep those notes. After a month, you will have a small journal of your own Enochian observations, and that journal will be more useful to you than any borrowed list of keywords, because it records what you actually saw.
If you are new to both, begin with simple spreads and honest questions. A single card for the day, or three cards for a situation, is plenty. Ask questions you can actually act on, rather than questions about what someone else will do. "What do I need to see about this situation?" will serve you better than a demand for a yes or no. Be specific about what you want to know, and take time afterwards to write down what the reading showed and what you did about it. A deck teaches you fastest when you close the loop between reading and action.
Reading for others, and reading for yourself
A deck like this raises a question every serious reader meets sooner or later: is it for reading for yourself, or for reading for others? The honest answer is that it is for both, but the two uses ask different things of you. Reading for yourself asks for honesty, because you are the person most likely to soften a hard message or to hear only the part you wanted. Reading for others asks for clarity and restraint, because you are speaking about someone else's life, and your words will carry weight with them whether you intend them to or not.
With an Enochian deck, reading for others carries one more consideration. The system behind the deck is a system of spiritual authority and order, and it is easy, when reading with it, to speak as if you were pronouncing a verdict rather than offering a seeing. Resist that. A reading offers a picture and an interpretation. It does not hand down a judgement, and it does not remove the other person's freedom to act differently from what the cards seemed to show. Say what you see, say it plainly, and leave room for the person in front of you to recognise it, question it, or set it aside.
Reading for yourself, meanwhile, benefits from a small discipline: write the reading down before you interpret it. Note the cards, their positions, and your first impression of each, and only then begin to put the story together. That pause between seeing and explaining is where self-deception usually creeps in, and a written record makes it harder for it to pass unnoticed.
Keeping the deck as a working tool
A deck that is used daily needs a little care, and the care is part of the practice, not an extra chore on top of it. Keep the deck together, in one place, where you can find it without hunting. Shuffle it properly before a reading, not as a nervous habit, but as a way of clearing the last reading out of it and giving the cards a fresh order to speak from. Some readers like to keep a cloth for readings, or a particular place to lay the cards. None of that is required. What matters is that the deck has a settled home and a settled way of being used, so that picking it up already signals to your mind that it is time to look carefully.
It is also worth keeping the deck for its proper work. A deck used for everything, including party tricks and idle questions asked for amusement, tends to give answers of the same quality as the questions put to it. That is not a rule about purity. It is a practical observation. Attention is a limited resource, and a tool you treat casually will answer casually. Treat the deck as a working tool, ask it real questions, and it will repay that seriousness with readings that actually help you think.
The Enochian system behind the pictures
It helps, when working with this deck, to remember what Enochian magick actually is, in broad outline, so that the cards are not mistaken for decoration. The system came through Dee and Kelly as a language and a set of calls for working with the Angels, ordered into a hierarchy that maps the heavens, the elements, and the parts of the world. It is a system of names, and in magick, a name is not a label. It is a handle, a way of calling something by its proper place and nature so that it can be addressed directly.
A tarot deck built on that system therefore carries, in every card, a small piece of that ordering mind. When you read with it, you are not only asking "what is happening?" You are also, quietly, asking "what is the order of this situation, and what is out of order in it?" That question suits many of the situations people actually bring to a reading: a life that feels disordered, a project that has lost its shape, a relationship where the roles have blurred, a spiritual practice that has drifted from its purpose. The deck answers in the language of a system that thinks in order, and for those questions, that language is a gift.
None of this requires you to be an advanced Enochian practitioner before you pick the deck up. The deck is a way in, not a reward for already being inside. Use it, notice what it teaches you, and let your study of the wider system grow alongside your readings, each feeding the other.
Enochian Skrying Tarot deck
If you want a deck that reads in Enochian terms rather than repeating another deck's pictures, this is the deck I made for that work. It is a 78 card deck, each image created using the symbolism of the meaning of the particular card, rather than copying Rider-Waite images. It can be used for divination, and also for connecting with and learning more about the system of Enochian magick.
I make no promise about a particular outcome, in terms of magical result. That wording is about the reading and the work itself, not about delivery dates.
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