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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…
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Deck Review: The Slow Tarot
The Slow Tarot by Lacey Bryant was one of the very first indie Tarot decks I ever bought, and years later it remains one of my favourites. Created over six years as a true labour of love, every card began life as an original oil painting, resulting in a deck rich with atmosphere, symbolism, nostalgia, and dreamlike surrealism. If you enjoy Tarot decks that reward lingering, noticing details, and falling down symbolic rabbit holes, the Slow Tarot might be exactly your (vintage, chintzy) cup of tea.
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Deck Review: Earthbound Tarot
Created using hand-foraged earth pigments gathered from the New Mexico landscape itself, Celine Gordon’s Earthbound Tarot feels less like a deck merely inspired by nature and more like something physically weathered out of the desert. Full of burning skies, strange celestial signs, fissures opening in the earth, and moments of profound human tenderness, it’s one of the most numinous-yet-materially-grounded Tarot decks I’ve ever encountered.
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Deck Review: Chaos Blossom Tarot
The Chaos Blossom Tarot has inspired probably the most ambivalent review I've written so far. As a deck it's occasionally brilliant, occasionally baffling, and haunted throughout by a faint sense of symbolic uncanny valley. Some cards genuinely stopped me in my tracks (that Judgement card! OMG! 😍), while others left me staring at random giant sword-hamsters asking “but… why though?” A deck full of beautiful imagery and some mythological near-misses.
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Deck Review: Ever Ahead Tarot
A Tarot deck made of road signs, coffee cups, and loose change usually would not work for me… and yet, here we are! The Ever Ahead Tarot is a little treasure of a deck, and a fab travel companion - it takes the everyday and gives it just enough emotional weight to carry the whole RWS system - often very amusingly and with a surprising amount of heart.
