I received my first Tarot deck (1JJ Swiss) at the age of 17 from my maternal grandmother. From the start, the evocative imagery captured me – but it was also the way that one could use Tarot in such a
Spring Fling
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! Our wrangler Ania Marczyk asked us to consider which cards need to be updated, removed or added to the deck to reflect our modern society. What a great question to ask the artists and authors
A Sky Full of Cards: The Decans and the Pips
The images of the tarot fascinate. They combine symbols both plain and mysterious- a mixture which both tantalizes the intellect and arouses the soul. Their colors and forms vibrate with strange antiquity. Yet there is no evidence that the cards
My “Groundhog Day”: Meeting the Tarot for the First Time, Repeatedly
I still have notes on the first Tarot reading I did. It was the Rider-Waite deck (Pamela Colman Smith, the deck’s artist, was barely on the radar back then), standard “yellow box” with plaid backs. I didn’t particularly connect with