Tarot of the Sorceress — Berengère Demoncy 78 Card Dark Tarot Deck

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Tarot of the Sorceress by Berengère Demoncy — a complete 78-card tarot deck rendered in atmospheric black and gold fantasy illustration. The Sorceress theme runs through every card, blending classic tarot structure with dark feminine power, occult symbolism, and dramatic magical imagery. A visually compelling deck for intermediate and advanced readers drawn to gothic aesthetics and empowered feminine archetypes.

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Quick Specs

• Brand: Rockpool Publishing
• Creator: Berengere Demoncy
• Type: 78-card tarot deck with 128-page guidebook
• Best for: Wheel of the Year readers, pagan practitioners, black and white art collectors, Marseilles-RWS hybrid readings

Wheel of the Year Tarot with Black, White, and Gold Aesthetic

The Tarot of the Sorceress is a full 78-card tarot deck created by Berengere Demoncy, an artistic director and illustrator with a background in publishing, fashion, and esoteric card design. The deck was published by Rockpool Publishing in November 2022. Its visual language is striking: black and white illustrations with gold metallic highlights on a dark field, creating an aesthetic that sits between grimoire manuscript and contemporary witchcraft art. The gold foil on card edges reinforces the ceremonial quality.

Demoncy built the deck around the Wheel of the Year and pagan seasonal spirituality. The Major Arcana cards embody the great movements of the year, while the Minor Arcana depict sabbats, moon cycles, sacred figures, constellations, planets, crystals, and plants. The four traditional suits are replaced by the four elements: Air, Water, Fire, and Earth. Each suit carries an assigned time of day, a lunar phase, a crystal, an herb, a flower, a magical tool, a planet, an incense, and an animal, giving every suit a complete symbolic ecosystem that practitioners can work with in ritual as well as in readings.

Reading System and Who This Deck Serves

The deck draws from both the Rider-Waite-Smith tradition and the Marseilles tradition, and the guidebook addresses both systems explicitly. For RWS readers, the imagery is fully illustrated and intuitively readable, including in the Minor Arcana. For Marseilles readers, the numerology preserves passive and active aspects, and the Knight follows the King as described in Jodorowsky's The Way of Tarot. The figures in the deck are androgynous, which the guidebook addresses through a Unique Personal Gnosis framework that allows readers to apply their own gender and sacred relationship readings to the court cards.

This is a deck for practitioners who already have a working relationship with tarot and want a tool built specifically for seasonal and elemental ritual work. It reads well for sabbat spreads, for readings tied to moon cycles, and for any reading where the practitioner wants the card's botanical, crystal, or planetary correspondences to inform the interpretation. Browse my tarot decks collection for other full 78-card decks.

How to Use Tarot of the Sorceress

The Tarot Fellow Standard

I stock the Tarot of the Sorceress because Demoncy built an entire symbolic ecosystem into a single deck. The elemental suit correspondences covering crystal, herb, planet, incense, and animal for each suit give experienced practitioners a genuinely richer reading tool than most decks in its tier. The guidebook earns its 128 pages, the reverse keyword system is well-considered, and the black, white, and gold aesthetic is collector-quality. See my full tarot and divination collection for more full tarot decks.

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