The Grand Hours of Rohan, produced around 1430, emerges from a world in which time was divided by sacred measure—by canonical hours, seasonal thresholds, and the governed movement of the heavens. In this cosmology, image was not ornament but vessel. Figures bore hierarchy, gesture carried doctrine, and celestial order pressed quietly upon earthly life. Devotion and sky were not separate realms; they moved in correspondence.
More than half a century later, the first fully illustrated tarot deck appears in 1491 with the Sola Busca Tarot. Yet within the Hours, a complete symbolic architecture is already present. The archetypes, the moral tensions, the celestial alignments—these stand articulated decades before tarot emerges in printed form. What is recognized here as the lost tarot of Rohan does not interrupt history; it reveals a continuity beneath it. The cards do not originate in paper. They surface from a devotional matrix in which sacred time, human fate, and the stars were bound together long before the tarot took shape in the hand.
Grand Hours of Rohan - 1430
Visconti-Storza Tarot - 1440
Sola Busca Tarot - 1491
Tarot of the Grand Hours of Rohan - 2026
I expect the production of the Tarot of the Grand Hours of Rohan to be completed around the end of March 2026. It then takes a month to get to me, so it would ship to you around mid-May 2026.
The specs ofthe deck are as follows:
90 cards - 22 major arcana, 56 minor arcana, 12 zodiac
400 art paper card stock - same as Medieval Earth and Medieval Oracle of the Beasts
Gold ink on the cards and inside the book
guidebooks is 252 pages with a vegan blue leather cover
Book and Cards will have gilding
Tarot of the Grand Hours of Rohan is published by Libra Moon Inc. The Grand Hours of Rohan, like all Books of Hours, was ordered by the divisions of sacred time—hours, seasons, and the measured turning of the heavens. In the medieval imagination, earthly life unfolded beneath a structured sky, where celestial movement and devotional rhythm mirrored one another. The tarot and the zodiac emerge here from that same cosmology, not as separate systems, but as reflections of a world in which time, image, and the stars remain bound together.
This deck arose from study of the Grand Hours of Rohan, a manuscript produced around 1430. Within its pages, a complete tarot structure can be discerned, with all seventy-eight cards present in varied forms. Predating the earliest documented tarot decks, the manuscript suggests a symbolic system already established before tarot emerged in card form. The tarot presented here is not imposed, but recognized.
Tarot DeckPrinting begins after the observance of Chinese New Year of 2026, when the presses resume at full capacity. Production requires approximately six to seven weeks, followed by an additional month for shipment. The printers bring exceptional care to this work, incorporating gold ink throughout the cards and within the book itself. The volume is bound in vegan leather, and the tarot cards are produced on high-quality stock to ensure durability, weight, and finish appropriate to the gravity of the manuscript from which they derive.
Guidebook
The unveiling of this deck will take place through an 11 day Kickstarter campaign beginning on the Spring Equinox, March 20, 2026. The equinox marks the measured balance of light and shadow, an hour suspended between ascent and decline. In the logic of the Hours, such a moment is not casual; it is a point of alignment, when opposing forces stand in equal measure and transition becomes possible. The campaign opens within that balance, allowing the work to emerge at a threshold rather than in passing time.
Kickstarter
