As time went by, traditional initiatic orders and senior initiated brought light to the mysteries on the tarot cards’ meanings. In the beginning of XIX century, Waite began to shed light on this path and Crowley continued by adding more symbols to his deck.
Our idea was to look in traditional authors, such as Papus, Eliphas Levi, Paul Foster Case, Dion Fortune, Israel Regardie, MacGregor Mathers and the already mentioned Aleister Crowley and Edward Waite, for the symbolic components which gave the meaning behind the cards and, consequently, eliminate the use of tra-ditional images, emphasizing exclusively the symbolic relations.
The project stated in 2013, with the first impression having only 300 copies, PVC cards, which is considered nowadays as a collector edition. One of the biggest differences was the possibility to use water, sand, salt and even pass the card on the flame, using it on rituals.
On the final of 2013, we created the HKT2, a similar version, but using paper card 300g and adjusting the size for the International paper size.
As a lot of people were requesting the HKT using PVC cards, we created the HKT 1.5, with the same characteristics from the HKT1 (as it stated to be called), but with a paper card box and a different back on the cards.
And on 2017, we made a crowdfunding to produce the HKT3! It’s the same deck, but with more information and using the Marselha’s tarot as watermark.