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Currently on Kickstarter: Figuratively Speaking Mermaid Tarot Deck
UPDATE: Since writing this post I’ve received my copy of the deck; you can read my review here. Backing this new deck was a no-brainer for me, as I love artist B. Miller’s Tarot and Tarot-esque paintings on Instagram (especially since she drew this Tarot card style Karlach from BG3, I would DIE for a hand painted BG3 Tarot deck, be still my beating heart), and I also already own their first (huge, sprawling!) Tarot deck, the Figuratively Speaking Tarot (which you can buy here). The Figuratively Speaking Mermaid Tarot is an absolute beaut, featuring all of Bee’s gorgeous watercolour artwork and more thematically consistent than its predecessor (I love…
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Deck Review: The Alleyway Tarot
I own Publishing Goblin‘s first Kickstarter Tarot deck, The Alleyman’s Tarot, and, while it’s a bit unwieldy to work with, I still love it for reflection purposes, and for thinking about the ways different artists interpret the traditional card meanings. The guidebook is also a cracking read, as opposed to the normal fairly generic guff. So I didn’t hesitate in backing this new deck, The Alleyway Tarot, that follows the same principles as its predecessor. Each card in the deck is designed by a different artist, and the concept is that this is a ‘found’ deck, cobbled together with individual cards that ‘The Alleyman’ has magpied into his life over…
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Deck Review: Austin Osman Spare Tarot
One for the collectors and the Tarot-history enthusiasts is the Austin Osman Spare Tarot, which you can currently order via the publisher’s (Strange Attractor) website for £35. Being a skinflint Trying to control my Tarot addiction in a sensible manner, I only forked out for the deck when I backed the project on Kickstarter, so I didn’t get the accompanying book, Lost Envoy: The Tarot Deck of Austin Osman Spare, or the AOS Tarot Sourcebooks (How to Tell Fortunes by The Cards*, by Rapoza (1906), a key source for Spare’s Minor Arcana attributions, and The Tarot, by S. L. MacGregor Mathers (1888) from which he assigned his Major Arcana meanings). This…
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Currently on Kickstarter: Tarot of Oxalia
EDIT: Since writing the post, I have received my copy – you can read my full review here. I started this blog as a way to scrapbook my own Tarot journey (as well as to have a platform for reading for others), but it’s been super rewarding that other people have engaged with it (no (wo)man is an island!) A further unexpected perk happened last week when Art of Play reached out to me to ask if I’d be interested in reviewing their forthcoming deck, the Tarot of Oxalia, in return for a free copy. Given the frankly terrifying amount of money I have thus far spent on my Tarot…
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Currently on Kickstarter: The Nigredo Tarot Deck
Since I wrote this post, I have received my KS copy and have reviewed it here. You can buy your own copy from the artist and creator’s Etsy site here. **** Many moons ago, when I received my much-anticipated copy of the Alleyman’s Tarot, I selected The Magician card by Roberto Papavero Crusca as one of my favourite cards. I liked it so much I did some sleuthing on the artist, and was disappointed to see that they had historically designed a Majors deck, but it didn’t meet its Kickstarter funding target. What felt like bad news at the time turned out to be good news for Future Lucy, as…
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Tarot Card Meanings: The Sun
The Sun is the nineteenth card of the Major Arcana, and represents joy, clarity, vitality, and childlike wonder. In this post, I explore The Sun Tarot meaning - from classical symbolism and Rider-Waite-Smith imagery to reflections on happiness, embodiment, and how to let yourself really feel the light. It's my belief that every card in the Tarot has both positive and negative connotations (and why I don't read reversals per se, rather I'm guided by both the spread and my querent as to whether a card's energy is light or shadow), but The Sun is BIG on the positivity and doesn't leave the shadow many spaces to hide. It's one…
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Readings This Weekend: SomersFest, Portsmouth
Excited to post that I’ll be offering face to face readings this weekend (Saturday 27th) at SomersFest, a community festival in my home city of Portsmouth. It’s been almost a year since I last did public readings, so I’m really keen to get back into the groove 😄. If you happen to be in Portsmouth (UK), come along and find me. I’m in the World of Wellness area with some other great folks. Sadly I won’t be in my Tent of Wonders, as it’s a hard standing pitch, so it’ll just be my common or garden traders’ gazebo, alas. To prepare I’ve been re-reading Jenna Matlin‘s fabulous ‘Have Tarot, Will…
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Currently On Kickstarter: The Out Of Hand Tarot (Pocket Edition)
Just a quick post to say that one of my favourite decks, the Out of Hand Tarot, is available again! You can back a pocket version of the deck on Kickstarter. You can read my (very effusive) review of the full-sized deck here. Sadly, after the artist and creator Jamie Sawyer finished the campaign for the original deck, and sold out all her stock, it was counterfeited. My review of the original deck is the *most* visited page on my website each month, which shows how popular the deck is! However, none of the money goes to Sawyer when people buy counterfeit copies of the deck, and this SUCKS. So,…
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Deck Review: Grounded Wisdom Tarot
Another Kickstarter-backed deck that recently arrived with me is the gorgeously detailed Grounded Wisdom Tarot. The deck was designed and drawn by Gabby Morris, who takes a “polymathic approach*” to their projects, blending art and design with nature and ecological futures. (*My little ADHD magpie brain perked up at this inspired phrasing! My new goal is owning my own scattergun approach to knowledge by calling it ‘polymathic’! 💪) Morris’ website is full of really cool stuff from her Master’s project and subsequent work – it’s kinda chemistry-meets-cooking-meets-conservation-meets art & design-meets-am dram, and is well worth checking out. The deck not only has lots of crossovers with my own myriad interests…
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Deck Review: Fat Folks Tarot
I feel like I’ve been waiting aaaaaaages for this deck (its Kickstarter campaign finished on 01/02/23), so I’m very excited to finally have it in my chubby little paws. It is, of course, the second (and final) edition of the Fat Folks Tarot. The creating team note that, while Tarot is “meant to depict the entire realm of human experience”, many people have been left out of the imagery in traditional Tarot decks, including fat people. Historically, as one of the co-creators, Cassandra Snow points out, when we see fat people in Tarot they are associated either with “gluttony or motherhood”. And that’s it. That’s all we get. So here…
