A Review of “Mapping the Hero’s Journey with Tarot”

Arwen Lynch’s Mapping the Hero’s Journey with Tarot: 33 days to Finish Your Book showed up in my mailbox unannounced. My mother sent it as a “just because” present—she knew I was putting together a workshop on Tarot and storytelling and thought this book might interest me. Telling stories; Hero’s Journey; what could be a … Continue reading A Review of “Mapping the Hero’s Journey with Tarot”

A Closer Look at The Sabbath Tarot

Months ago I first started seeing pictures of Allan Spiers' The Sabbath Tarot pop up on Instagram accounts I follow. The masculinity and the play of light and dark in Spiers’ images intrigued me. I started following @thesabbathtarot on Instagram, and looked at Spiers’ The Sabbath Project website. I hesitated to purchase the deck because … Continue reading A Closer Look at The Sabbath Tarot

Telling Our Stories with An Imperfect Tool

On the left my first deck, The Tarot (AKA The Hoi Polloi Tarot (c) 1972, Hoi Polloi, Inc. On the right, The Rider Tarot Deck (AKA the Rider-Waite, the Rider-Waite-Smith, and the Waite-Smith Tarot) (c) 1971, U.S. Games Systems, Inc. When I was growing up our choices of Tarot decks were primarily limited to the … Continue reading Telling Our Stories with An Imperfect Tool