The Jean Dodal Tarot by Jean-Claude Flornoy
It’s almost here!
I’ve spoken with the Flornoys, and am pleased to share that the printing has been a great success and we are now in the final stages of completion before the new Jean Dodal 78-Card version by Jean-Claude Flornoy is available!
I’m terribly excited about this.
As some of you know, I was to be asked to help design the box for the deck, and Roxanne Flornoy told me today that she is sending me a sheet of the unfolded box, along with some uncut sheets from the deck, so I’ll finally get to see the cards all of their glory. :-bd
I’m not positive, but it feels like they’ve been working on it since just after they finished the Noblet, so that’s almost two years now? I’m sure everyone who owns one of their decks can confirm that one of the hallmarks of their work is the painstaking attention to detail and their authenticity, and I know that the time has been well spent making sure that this restoration of the Jean Dodal sets the standard at the highest level.
Here’s a sneak peek at the box, although the colours will have been perfected at the time of press, so enjoy… with caution. 
I have used the Tarot to write a history. As a journalist in the Sixties I made thousands of photographs and wrote hundreds of articles about the Counterculture. I found in looking through my photographs a 40-year-old Tarot that has become the centerpiece of a 130,000 word history of the Sixties. My website counterculturecreations.com features an edited version of this history along with all its Tarot cards that serve nicely as “silos of experience” for the telling of a history. The site is easily navigated and accessible and my About page explains much of the historicist rationale for using a symbolic system to create a historical narrative. Recently, an exhibit of my cards opened at an art gallery in Berkeley Ca. Please contact me if you’d like more information.
William Haigwood