Author: Tania Ahsan Illustrator: Paula Zorite Publisher: Arcturus Publishing Ltd. Purchase links at the end of the review. One could easily argue that after Arthur Edward Waite and Pamela Colman Smith, the most influential tarot deck collaborators are Aleister Crowley and Frieda Harris. I have always been very grateful that the Thoth Tarot was Crowley’s […]
This post was written with the express permission of the querent. On Saturday, April 15th, 2023, we held a gender reveal party for my daughter and son-in-law. This being Mississippi, the gathered crowd waited anxiously within the gated pool area as my son-in-law carefully aimed. He screamed, “Cover y’ears!” and pulled the trigger. A second […]
Tarot decks available from artisantarot.com, Instagram: @artisantarot Socks available from footclothes.com, Instagram: @footclothesofficial I feel I should warn you: this post is not just some product review, it is also a tremendous “thank you” to those products’ creators: Artisan Tarot and FootClothes! Recently, these manufacturers ran a raffle of sorts, a giveaway, and I may […]
Writer/Artist: Tina GongWebsite: http://www.labyrinthos.co Recently, I reviewed another one of Tina Gong’s productions, her book Tarot: Connect with Yourself, Develop Your Intuition, Live Mindfully, of which I am a great admirer. Prior to the book, I had already purchased the Arcana Iris Sacra Tarot on a field trip from my Mississippi digs all the way […]
Artist/Writer: Tillie WaldenPublisher: Liminal 11/Sterling Ethos As always, I am a sucker for good packaging, and Liminal 11 does another fine job with Tillie Walden’s The Cosmic Slumber Tarot. Liminal 11 decks generally come in a very nicely made box with magnetic closures. The boxes protect the cards well and sit nicely on a shelf. […]
Publisher: Patrick Valenza at Deviant Moon Inc. Website: http://www.deviantmoon.com Ever since I first laid eyes on images of an Edoardo Dotti Tarot, I have wanted a deck of those cards. In that first exposure, on page 160 of Stuart Kaplan’s Encyclopedia of Tarot, volume 1, I fell in love at first sight. I don’t know […]
Recently while burrowing around the rabbit hole of TarotTube, I noted a series of videos, mostly deck reviews, where “diversity and inclusion” are mentioned on a regular basis. This is to be expected, I suppose, given modern Western culture and that this marginalized spiritual practice has been adopted by practitioners who often belong to marginalized […]
Publisher: KnockKnock, LLC Author: Suzi Barrett Illustrator: Vikki Chu How do I label my reactions to this deck? Excitement? A type of unbecoming juvenile giddiness? I don’t know. It was love at first sight. I saw it on the shelf in its beguiling purple box, saw the cheetah waving its wand, and I knew. Showing […]
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