Documented history
Claims supported by historical records, archives, scholarship, and primary sources.
The record · Created by Malik Bush
Memory is not
background decoration.
The Unbroken Tarot was built so Black Southern history, Gullah Geechee cultural tradition, and ancestral memory could live inside the system of the deck itself.
01
The gap
A living archive
in 78 cards.
Too often, Black history enters spiritual products as an aesthetic layer while the symbols and assumptions underneath remain untouched.
The Unbroken Tarot was built from the inside out. The major arcana became figures such as The Griot, The Conjure Woman, The Witness, The Crossing, and The Jubilee. The minor arcana became Rivers, Flames, Roots, and Fields.
The standard · 02
Specificity over vagueness.
Survival without spectacle.
Beauty that teaches.
The deck's writing standard is grounded, reverent, and honest. Cultural claims are researched; project-canon subtitles are treated with care; suffering is named without becoming the only story.
Sources & stewardship · 03
Different kinds of truth must be named clearly.
Cultural context
Material grounded in scholarship, community institutions, and documented oral traditions.
Tarot tradition
Established tarot structure and meaning used as the foundation for the deck's system.
Project canon
Creative decisions belonging to The Unbroken Tarot, including its card names and subtitles.
Symbolic interpretation
The reasoned connection between image, history, culture, and tarot meaning.
The work today · 04
The deck is complete.
The first edition is being prepared.
All 78 card artworks, the guidebook draft, and the print-ready file are complete. Printer terms, production specifications, launch channel, and timing still require confirmation before orders begin.
See first-edition status