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Currently On Kickstarter: Le Tarot de la Grande Ourse
You know when you see a card from a Tarot deck, and you think, “Wow! That’s smart. And I don’t really think I’ve seen it done like that before. That’s so cool. Something to think about. Huh. Huh.” And then you find your mind keeps coming back to it, turning it over and over and inspecting it, and every time it gives you a little jolt of pleasure and interest, and you know it’s just a really special card. If I feel that way about a card, that’s enough to make me buy the whole deck, even if I’m kinda ambivalent about the others. In a good deck, there’ll be…
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Shag, Marry, Push Off A Cliff: I’m on the Boner & Mirror Tarot Podcast!
I was delighted to be invited onto the Boner & Mirror Tarot podcast by my new Portsmouth-Tarot-friend Molly, creator of Bone and Mirror Tarot. (This is very exciting. Local Tarot friends are the best!) Boner & Mirror is the cheeky little sibling of Molly’s more serious Tarot work, and is built around one extremely important question: which Tarot card would you hook up with, which would you marry, and which would you push off a cliff? Obviously, this combines three of my main interests: Tarot, sex and sexuality, and pushing people off cliffs, ahem, criminology – so it was an absolute delight to take part. Molly drew some real stinkers…
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Deck Review: The Hayworth Tarot
It’s time for another throwback review, with one of my all-time, old-time favourites: Jessica Hayworth's Hayworth Tarot. I’ve had this deck for years and years, and it shows up in my deep dives a LOT. Because I LOVE it. It is dark and creepy and fabulously unsettling. There’s a lot of inky black blood, a lot of viscera, and a general sense that something has gone terribly, terribly wrong... But in a good way, you know.
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Deck Review: Pixie’s Marseille Tarot
Pixie’s Marseille Tarot brings two of Tarot’s most influential traditions together, weaving Pamela Colman Smith’s familiar RWS figures into the pips, structures, and symbolism of the Tarot de Marseille. The result is clever, quirky, occasionally weird, and clearly made with enormous affection for both.
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Who’s That (Manic Pixie Dream) Girl?: The Life and Art of Pamela Colman Smith
Who was Pamela “Pixie” Colman Smith? Artist, storyteller, feminist, occultist, and bohemian oddball, Smith brought a lifetime of folklore, theatre, symbolism and strange, visionary art to the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot. Let’s meet the woman behind some of Tarot’s most iconic images.
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Deck Review: Wild Eden Tarot
The Wild Eden Tarot is a strange, sensual, and gloriously visceral deck from Lo Scarabeo, illustrated by Gloria Pizzilli and created with Tarot educator Alice Mastroleo. I take a deep dive into its distinctive artwork, symbolism, and very VERY naked bodies 😂
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Tarot Card Meanings: The Star
Welcome to my Circle of Stars! The Star is the seventeenth card of the Major Arcana, and represents hope, healing, faith, and the long path back to wholeness. In this post, I explore the Star Tarot meaning, from classical and contemporary symbolism to literary reflections, deck interpretations, and personal experience – and what it means to keep going when the light is faint, but still there.
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Deck Review: The Hierophanies Tarot
The Hierophanies Tarot is a clever, strange, and tender queer reimagining of the RWS, weaving recurring natural forms through human bodies, technology, and the cosmos. Its richly symbolic cards explore identity, transformation, connection, and the exhilarating possibilities of becoming.
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Tarot Card Meanings: Death
Welcome to my circle of death (which is, in many ways, a circle of life!) If you've landed here searching for the Death Tarot card meaning, the good news is that the Death card very rarely predicts a literal physical death! Instead, it usually points towards endings, transformation, release, and the difficult but necessary process of letting go. Unlike some of the other "bad" cards, Death comes up quite a lot in readings I do for other people. Which I guess speaks to how routine - how ordinary, really - loss is to the cycle of our everyday lives. But while we know on some level that all things end,…
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Tarot Readings & Talks: The Tarot Fayre, Brighton, Saturday 18th July
I’m super excited to be speaking at this year’s Tarot Fayre in Brighton on Saturday 18th July! The Tarot Fayre is a one-day celebration of all things Tarot, bringing together readers, artists, deck creators, authors, speakers and enthusiasts for a day of talks, workshops, readings and (most importantly) lots of enthusiastic conversations about beautiful bits of card. I’ll also be offering Tarot readings during the morning, so if you’ve ever fancied sitting down with me for a reading, this is your chance, lol. One of the things I’m super hyped about is meeting some of the wonderful people whose work I’ve admired for years. I’m especially excited to finally meet…
