From Beth: Hello out there, you big beautiful bunch of tarot-loving people At last, I’m in the final stages of prepping LittleRedTarot to be passed on to its fabulous new owners, my old pals Elena and Kaan, who will be taking over next week (eeeeep!!!) I’m so excited for you to meet them – you’re going to …
An excerpt from Charlie's new publication, the Gay Marseille, introducing the classic Tarot de Marseille and its role as a tarot deck for the people.
You must court them from the margins, cruise
the back door, open to receive.
They will guide you to pierce truth with inner vision,
rather than outer eyes that so deceive.
"Each week I would connect with so many of you through email or your orders – such small ways, but still, you have influenced, inspired, humbled and honed me. No word of a lie."
The darkness stretchs out its arms and claims a little more of each passing day. Flocks of geese call out as they return to the river Dyfi for the cold season. Death and decay are in the air.
"I started off my career by making alien animals and sci-fi worlds as an escape from everyday life and to heal from the brutality of the world. But now that I’m older, I feel brave enough to explore this in my work."
"Home to me feels like a return. So much of the path to liberation is the coming home, the return to the full potential of what we are and I find that home is the container that allows us to unfold in this way."
"My love of tarot is related to this love of old things, this connection I feel with every printmaker and tarot reader that has come before me. So for me, letterpress and tarot go together quite naturally, and thus the Tarot of Sorts was born."
"It is a deck that speaks softly, but strikes deep with its insight. It is a deck that acknowledges the politics that govern our lives, but remembers that we must fight to solve the problems they cause – and we do not have to fight alone."
"I believe we are spiritual beings, but we can't bypass that whole 'having a human experience' part and everything that comes with it."
Escape the shopocalypse! We're closed this weekend in protest of capitalism's most sacred festival.
"I love the way sound can transport us, a portal into our inner landscapes and wisdom, an opportunity to learn to listen more deeply to ourselves."
These collaged, many-layered cards are a map, a tool, a living work of femme devotion that turns a square into a circle, reveals intersections, fill in gaps with ever-shifting nuances and possibilities of being.
Following up on the success of their Jewitchy deck the Hidden Light Tarot, Oli Starfrosting's new Talisman Tarot is a queer descendant of the Tarot de Marseilles.
"I believe that resistance and revolution can be seeded in art. Allowing our brains to experiment with different futures can help those futures feel possible."
Creator Kimberly M Tsan introduces her latest deck - a colourful, easy to use system for creating your own custom tarot spreads.
If you're lucky enough to be taking a holiday this summer, here's a spread to try before you go!
Absolutely we sell a gorgeous selection of indie tarot decks - and the humans that designed them are a magical bunch of people. I hope you'll enjoy getting to know everyone :)
Charlie is a non-binary spirit in a human home who's gay for other queers! Based in Portland, Oregon, Charlie is the artist and author behind the Fifth Spirit Tarot.
"I imagine the Shrine of the Black Medusa as a space where you can be your full self, with all of your trauma, faults, charms, and questions"
Revolutionary Mystic Metztli Wolf is pleased to announce the launch of their exciting new Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for Sacred Relatives Tarot Deck.
