The Archeo: Personal Archetype Cards

by Nick Bantock

Build Your Inner Life with a Cast of Colorful Archetypes New York Times bestselling author and artist Nick Bantock presents a groundbreaking oracle deck that helps you create your personal mythology. Picture your inner life as a hero's quest and this deck as your band of faithful companions. The Archeo includes 40 stunning archetype cards, a full-color guidebook detailing each one's skills, gifts, and personalities, and two blank cards to make your own archetypal characters. Featuring mesmerizing artworks that spark the imagination, this marvelous deck guides you in discovering your full potential as a person of many parts. Kit includes a 40-card deck and 204-page color guidebook. About the included Ask the Alchemist to help you see beyond the mundane. Navigate through your complex emotions and thoughts with the Illuminator at your side. Let the Warrior protect you and give you courage. Delving into the attributes and personas of all 40 archetype cards, this full-color companion book shows you how to maximize your personal mythology. New York Times bestselling author and artist Nick Bantock guides you through the deck, revealing the myriad of ways these archetypes can help you reach your full potential. He shows you how to work with the cards and shares a short tale for each Archeo that gives you an even deeper understanding of it. This book is your road map to an epic hero's journey.

204 pages, Cards

Published April 8, 2021

About the author

Nick was schooled in England and has a BA in Fine Art (painting). He has authored 25 books, 11 of which have appeared on the best seller lists, including 3 books on The New York Times top ten at one time. Griffin & Sabine stayed on that list for over two years. His works have been translated into 13 languages and over 5 million have been sold worldwide. Once named by the classic SF magazine Weird Tales as one of the best 85 storytellers of the century. He has written articles and stories for numerous international newspapers and magazines. His Wasnick blogs are much followed on Facebook and Twitter. His paintings, drawings, sculptures, collages and prints have been exhibited in shows in UK, France and North America. In 2010 Nick's major retrospective exhibition opened at the MOA in Denver. His works are in private collections throughout the world. Nick has a lifetime BAFTA (British Oscar) for the CD-ROM game Ceremony of Innocence, created with Peter Gabriel's Real World, featuring Isabella Rossolini and Ben Kingsley. He has two iPad apps, Sage and The Venetian and is working on a third. Three of his books have been optioned for film and his stage play based on the Griffin & Sabine double trilogy premiered in Vancouver in 2006.

Produced artwork for more than 300 book covers (including works by Roth and Updike), illustrated Viking Penguin's new translation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He's designed theater posters for the London plays of Tom Stoppard and Alec Guinness.

For 20 years Bantock has spoken and read to audiences throughout North America, Europe and Australia. Given keynote and motivational speeches to corporations and teachers state conferences. He's given dramatic readings on the radio and the stage and has been interviewed (way too many times) for TV, radio and print.

Bantock has worked in a betting shop in the East End of London, trained as a psychotherapist, designed and built a house that combined an Indonesian temple and a Russian orthodox church with an English cricket pavilion and a New Orleans bordello. Between 2007 and 2010 was one of the twelve committee members responsible for selecting Canada's postage stamps.

Among the things Bantock can't do: Can't swim, never ridden a horse, his spelling is dreadful and his singing voice is flat as a pancake.

Source: Nick Bantock - profile

Reviews

[Jennifer nyc · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5? Gave me what I wanted, inspired some ideas, didn’t blow me away.

[Weslyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

This deck is phenomenal! I bought it with zero expectations and I am so thrilled with it. These cards provide so much insight whether you use them by themselves or with other cards. The book has full color photos of each individual card and the descriptions are spot on. They provide food for thought. Bantock not only tells you how to use the cards, but also provides a short story for each of them to further their characters.

I highly recommend this deck!

[Suzanne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lovely work! Beautiful narrative.

[Noreen Lopez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just gorgeous

[Degan Walters · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful and thoughtful archetypes developed from years of research and creating. the cards themselves are whimsical and gorgeous but each also comes with a description as well as a mini story.

[Gayle Turner · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fascinating, this tiny little book, along with its accompanying cards, is mesmerizing.