Journey - Mystagogus Travel Size

The Mystagogus Deck is designed around a magical pattern of evolution and has embedded within it the stages of development that are inherent to any magical path that seeks greater union with the deeper self and with the hidden inner worlds that flow through and around the physical world. The images were all hand painted on 30 x 20inch stretched canvas with acrylic paint by Josephine McCarthy. She started painting the deck in early 2020 and they were done over two years of successive lockdowns during the pandemic.

 The purpose of the Mystagogus deck is to strip all the unnecessary baggage that often goes along with divination cards that are connected to the magical path of the mysteries. Each is an individual power in its own right, so there is no colour code, no elemental code, no realm code... it is as nature is, itself.

 Mystagogus offers a clear concise voice of divination without obscure unnecessary glamour or dressing – it is a no nonsense voice of power that cuts to the heart of divination and doesn’t pull any punches. It is layered so that both mundane and magical voices can flow through it – sometimes we need to speak to a deep inner contact, and sometimes we need to find our missing cat. Mystagogus is designed with both in mind, as they are all part of the weave of fate.

 Each image is a power, dynamic, place or action that the magician bumps up against on their magical journey through life.

 There are 78 cards in the deck, but it is not based upon the tarot system. The cards have no borders or words/symbols printed on them - the are each pure windows for the power that flows through them.

Travel Size Edition

Printed on 400gsm Calder Satin with protective coating 79 cards including a travel blessing card. 

Free guidebook and more info can be found on the publishers website here

Card Size: 8.8 x 6.3cm

Cards and boxes passed and certified CE and UKCA

Manufactured in England

Full Size deck can be found here