Currently On Kickstarter: The Liminal Tarot Deck

Just a very quick & dirty little post, as I really wanted to flag folks’ attention to this little gem of a deck that only has a day left to run on Kickstarter: The Liminal Deck. Created by David Blackbird McKinsey, it’s really eerie and beautiful; very original (though I can see echoes of the Nigredo Deck). I LOVE the name too, as I’ve always felt that Tarot does its best work on the threshold – between knowing and not-knowing, comfort and unease, meaning and ‘vibes’.

This means that I particularly love threshold cards – the High Priestess, the Moon, the Eight of Cups – that live in what Victor Turner (writing on the liminal) calls the “betwixt and between” space, where identity loosens and meaning shifts. In Criminology (my day job!) liminality is used to talk about criminal theory that names that same instability: dark alleyways, digital platforms, night-time economies – spaces where normal rules blur and something else becomes possible, for better or worse.

This deck understands that tension. It doesn’t smooth it away.

I could witter on about my favourite cards like I usually do, but I really want to get this posted before it’s too late, and my feral kids are currently out of school for the holidays and in need of constant entertainment! Suffice to say, I’m obsessed with the blankness here: the blank eyes, the blank faces, the masks (esepcially those plague doctor ones). I’ve had a line from ‘Eleanor Rigby‘ by The Beatles in my head since I saw it: ‘Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door / Who is it for?’

One day to go folks! Thresholds don’t stay open forever. Back it here from $40 (about £30).

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