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  • jumble of cards from the Tarot of OxaliaDeck Review: Tarot of Oxalia
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Deck Reviews & Interviews, Decks, Glorious Decks!, Indie Decks

Deck Review: A Grieving Tarot

At first glance, A Grieving Tarot looked too simple for me. But within minutes I realised this was something rare: a stark, tender deck that captures the hollow textures of…

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October 13, 2025
Major Arcana, Tarot Card Meanings

Tarot Card Meanings: Strength

Strength is the eighth card of the Major Arcana in many Tarot traditions, and represents inner fortitude, self-mastery, and the power of gentleness. In this post, I explore what the…

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July 29, 2025
Deck Reviews & Interviews, Decks, Glorious Decks!, Indie Decks

Deck Review: The Wyrd of Sarah Howard

Ever since The Wyrd of Sarah Howard reached me from half a world away a couple of weeks ago I have been OBSESSED. Like, totally head over heels in love.…

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May 31, 2023
  • jumble of cards from the Tarot of Oxalia
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    Deck Review: Tarot of Oxalia

    February 20, 2026 /

    The Tarot of Oxalia is a lush, self-assured, unapologetically feminine reimagining of the RWS. It balances softness with sharpness and roots its symbolism in cycles of flow: love, loss, abundance, decay. It feels both timeless and distinctly of its moment: mythic, earthy, and defiant.

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    Deck Review: The Literary Tarot

    May 13, 2023
    A jumble of cards from the Bonestone & Earthflesh Tarot

    Deck Review: Bonestone & Earthflesh Tarot

    December 22, 2025
    Lubanko Tarot Cards - review by Tarotcake

    Deck Review: The Lubanko Tarot

    September 7, 2025
  • jumble of cards from the Discovering Beauty Tarot
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    Deck Review: Discovering Beauty Tarot

    February 9, 2026 /

    The Discovering Beauty Tarot is a proper old-school Love-and-Light deck - but don’t be fooled. Beneath the warmth and colour is a fiercely feminist, politically awake Tarot that asks for presence, courage, and care.

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    Deck Review: Out of Hand Tarot Deck

    July 3, 2023
    Jumble of Tarot cards from the MindScapes Tarot

    Deck Review: MindScapes Tarot

    July 22, 2025

    Deck Review: I Am The Artist Tarot by Sakki-Sakki

    April 26, 2023
  • Ring of Justice cards from various Tarot decks
    Major Arcana,  Tarot Card Meanings

    Tarot Card Meanings: Justice

    January 20, 2026 /

    Welcome to my wheel(s) of justice! Hot on the heels of the Wheel of Fortune, Justice, the eleventh card in the Major Arcana, is another Tarot card concerned with karma, balance, and consequence. But where the Wheel asks us to recognise forces beyond our control, Justice turns the question back onto us. It asks us to think about the choices we've made, the ethics we live by, the power we have - and how we wield it. Life constantly asks us to decide, to weigh things up, to choose which path we want to take. And once we’ve made those choices, we don’t simply move on from them: they become…

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    Circle of The Chariot Tarot Cards

    Tarot Card Meanings: The Chariot

    June 6, 2025
    A circle of Devil Tarot cards

    Tarot Card Meanings: The Devil

    May 7, 2023
    A circle of Magician Tarot cards

    Tarot Card Meanings: The Magician

    May 23, 2023
  • Jumble of cards from the Camena Tarot
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    Deck Review: Camena Tarot

    January 4, 2026 /

    Rooted in myth, art history, and watery intuition, the Camena Tarot is a deck that rewards slow looking and deep reading. From cat-eyed pomegranates and antlered High Priestesses to lactating Stars and Janus-lit Hermits, this is a Majors-only deck that treats Tarot not as a shortcut to answers, but as a threshold - one you have to cross carefully, attentively, and on your own time.

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    Deck Review: The Lacuna Tarot

    December 12, 2023
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    Deck Review: The Cracked Amethyst Tarot

    November 27, 2025

    Deck Review: The Twice Told Tarot

    July 15, 2023
  • Decks, Glorious Decks!,  Kickstarter Decks

    Currently On Kickstarter: The Liminal Tarot Deck

    December 31, 2025 /

    A quick & dirty love letter to The Liminal Tarot: an eerie, charcoal-drawn indie deck living in Tarot’s threshold spaces. With just over a day left on Kickstarter, this is a genuinely original deck for readers who like their symbolism strange, unsettled, and alive.

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    Deck Review: The Mushroom Hunter’s Tarot

    June 19, 2023
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    Deck Review: MindScapes Tarot

    July 22, 2025

    Deck Review: Solara Occulto Meliora Tarot

    May 26, 2024
  • A jumble of cards from the Bonestone & Earthflesh Tarot
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    Deck Review: Bonestone & Earthflesh Tarot

    December 22, 2025 /

    The Bonestone & Earthflesh Tarot is my All-Time Mostest Favouritest deck: rich, myth-soaked, visually stunning, and utterly unforgettable. Created by illustrator Ana Tourian and writer Avalon Cameron, it’s a deck that leans hard into beauty and brutality, ecological grief and ecstatic joy, folklore and flesh. With the long-awaited mass-market Reawakening edition finally making this former indie unicorn accessible, it feels like the perfect moment to revisit what makes Bonestone so powerful and so enduring - and why I still return to it again and again.

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    Deck Review: The Sinagtala Tarot

    August 27, 2025

    Deck Review: Out of Hand Tarot Deck

    July 3, 2023

    Deck Review: Genius Garden Tarot

    August 30, 2023
  • Jumble of cards from the Zoomies Tarot - review by Tarotcake
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    Deck Review: Zoomies Tarot

    December 7, 2025 /

    The Zoomies Tarot is whimsical, tender, and often surprisingly profound - very much in keeping with Amber Fossey’s trademark ability to make a “cute” drawing suddenly hit you in the feelings. With her background as an NHS doctor working in psychiatry, Fossey understands the messy grey areas of being human, and that compassion runs through the deck. Her creatures are a little strange, a little scruffy, sometimes falling apart… but always worthy of love.

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    Deck Review: Far-Out Tarot

    April 14, 2025

    Deck Review: The Mushroom Hunter’s Tarot

    June 19, 2023
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    Deck Review: The Sinagtala Tarot

    August 27, 2025
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    Deck Review: The Cracked Amethyst Tarot

    November 27, 2025 /

    The Cracked Amethyst Tarot feels like both a culmination and a homecoming - a decade of Jessica Bott’s artistic growth distilled into a deck that’s gentle, thoughtful, and quietly wise. Each card hums with intention: landscapes alive with light, natural textures, and a kind of calm that feels both grounded and expansive. Bott’s reimagining of her long-out-of-print Idiosyncradeck is no nostalgia project; it’s a transformation. Like the oyster-Magician at its heart, this is grit turned into grace, art honed into alchemy.

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    May 13, 2023

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    August 9, 2023
  • Different interpretations of the Temperance card, featuring angels and alchemical symbols of integration, healing, and sacred equilibrium.
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    Tarot and Religion: Why the Cards Aren’t the Enemy

    November 17, 2025 /

    People often ask me whether Tarot is “compatible” with religion; or more bluntly, whether it’s evil. As someone who reads professionally and also grew up within a Christian cultural framework (and has a very beloved brother-in-law who’s a vicar!), I think it’s time we unpack that a little. When I’m on my Tarot stall at the market, I often get Christians and Muslims who come over to critique the cards and admonish me for reading them (Jewish folks, in my experience, don’t tend to mind – maybe because Judaism has a more flexible relationship to divination, or maybe they just have better things to do with their time than harass…

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    The Maths of Tarot: How Many Tarot Spreads Are There (Really)? And How Long Would It Take To See Them All?

    September 23, 2025
    A jumble of Devil Tarot cards - symbolic, intuitive, and not at all possessed.

    Is Tarot Evil? In Defence of the Cards

    July 16, 2025
  • A circle of Wheel of Fortune Tarot cards from assorted decks
    Major Arcana,  Tarot Card Meanings

    Tarot Card Meanings: The Wheel Of Fortune

    November 7, 2025 /

    My first mnemonic for this card was the simple phrase “what goes around, comes around.” And honestly? However much more I study Tarot, that still feels like the essence of the Wheel. This is a card of change: often good luck sweeping in (it’s ruled by Jupiter, planet of expansion, after all). However, other times it's that sinking feeling when our luck runs out, fortune turns against us, everything tilts topsy-turvy, and we're thrown into uncertainty. Either way, it speaks to the rise and fall of fortunes beyond our control. The Goddess Fortuna, who could crown or crush with the same spin of her wheel, personified that ancient recognition of…

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    Tarot Card Meanings: The Hierophant

    March 24, 2025
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    September 8, 2023
    A circle of Magician Tarot cards

    Tarot Card Meanings: The Magician

    May 23, 2023
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