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Angel Tarot — Travis McHenry 78-Card Shem HaMephorash Deck
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Angel Tarot by Travis McHenry is a 78-card deck rooted in the Shem HaMephorash — the 72 holy angels of Kabbalistic tradition. Each card depicts a specific angel with corresponding attributes, making this deck ideal for practitioners of Kabbalah, ceremonial magic, or Judeo-Christian mysticism who want to work with angelic energies in tarot.
Description:Quick Specs
- Author/Creator: Travis McHenry
- Publisher: Rockpool Publishing
- Card Count: 78 cards (72 Shem HaMephorash angels plus 6 archangels)
- Best for: Ceremonial magic practitioners, angel evocation, Kabbalistic study, advanced tarot readers, occult divination
The Shem HaMephorash and McHenry's Research
The Angel Tarot by Travis McHenry is not a gentle angel-illustrated tarot deck in the tradition of popular light-and-love angel card sets. It is a rigorous work of occult scholarship grounded in the 72 angels of the Shem HaMephorash, the 72-fold name of God drawn from Kabbalistic tradition and transmitted through medieval grimoires. McHenry accessed original source texts including De Arte Cabbalistica (1517), Three Books of Occult Philosophy (1531), and never-before-published angel magic manuscripts from the 1600s and 1700s held in a private Paris collection. The result is a deck built on primary source material rather than filtered-down New Age interpretation.
The 78-card structure maps the 72 Shem angels onto the traditional tarot framework, with six archangels (Michael, Metatron, Gabriel, Haniel, Samael, and Uriel) added to complete the deck. Each card carries the angel's name, summoning sigil, the Pentacle of Tozgraec, astrological correspondence, the angel's office and abilities, and the tarot card association. The accompanying guidebook provides birth-date calculations to identify your three personal guardian angels, instructions for evocation rituals, and layouts for both everyday divinatory reading and ceremonial angel summoning. Browse my full tarot and divination collection for more in this tradition.
How This Deck Differs from Standard Angel Tarot
Most "angel tarot" decks on the market are illustrated RWS reinterpretations with soft pastel angel imagery, designed for inspirational guidance readings. McHenry's Angel Tarot occupies a fundamentally different space: it is a ceremonial magic tool that happens to use tarot structure as its organizing framework. The illustrations are sourced from historical occult manuscripts, cleaned and refined for the deck format. Using this deck for a standard three-card daily draw is possible, but its primary design is for practitioners who want to work with the 72 angels as specific named entities with distinct offices and abilities, and who want a structured method for identifying and summoning their own guardian angels.
Published by Rockpool Publishing in 2020, the deck came out of a Kickstarter campaign and was then picked up for wide distribution. The production quality is strong: a full-color guidebook, a sturdy keepsake box, and gilded detailing on the packaging. This is a deck worth having on the reference shelf whether or not ceremonial angel work is your primary practice, because the scope of McHenry's research is genuinely hard to find elsewhere in deck form.
How to Use the Angel Tarot
Three approaches to working with the Angel Tarot, from daily readings to ceremonial angel evocation practice.
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Identify Your Three Guardian Angels
Use the birth-date calculation in the guidebook to find your Soul Guardian, Moral Guardian, and Physical Guardian from the 72 Shem. Pull those three cards and study their offices, sigils, and abilities. These become your anchor for all deck work.
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Read with Astrological Correspondences
Each card carries an astrological correspondence. For a deeper reading, note the astrological meaning at the top of each drawn card alongside the standard tarot position meaning. This adds a ceremonial layer to conventional spreads.
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Use Summoning Seals for Angel Evocation
For ceremonial or Kabbalistic practitioners, the guidebook provides evocation instructions paired with summoning sigils on each card. Cast a ritual circle as described, draw the relevant card, and follow the invocation protocol provided.
The Tarot Fellow Standard
I stock this deck because it is one of the very few angel-themed divination tools built on genuine primary source scholarship rather than mass-market angel imagery. McHenry did the hard research work, and the result is a deck that functions as both a reading tool and a reference on the 72 angels of the Shem HaMephorash. For practitioners serious about Kabbalistic and ceremonial work, this is a shelf staple. Explore complementary tools in my oracle and reading cards collection.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Angel Tarot contains 78 cards: 72 representing the Shem HaMephorash angels mapped to tarot structure, plus 6 archangel cards (Michael, Metatron, Gabriel, Haniel, Samael, and Uriel) completing the traditional 78-card framework.
The Angel Tarot is best suited to practitioners familiar with tarot structure and interested in Kabbalistic or ceremonial magic. Its primary design is for angel evocation and study of the 72 Shem, requiring more context than an introductory deck.
Most angel tarot decks use soft inspirational imagery with RWS-style scenes. McHenry built his deck from historical occult manuscripts, featuring summoning sigils and evocation protocols for the 72 Shem angels, designed as a ceremonial magic tool.
The Shem HaMephorash is a 72-fold name of God derived from three verses in Exodus 14, each 72 letters long. Kabbalistic tradition assigns 72 angelic beings to this name, each with specific offices. McHenry maps these 72 angels onto tarot structure.
