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 →

Tarot Mentors Expanded

This spread begain with a challenge that my friend Rosa posted three years ago on tumblr. She revisited Tarot Mentors earlier this year, and over the next few weeks, I started occasionally pulling some Mentor readings. Here are the basics for Tarot Mentors. (Rosa's original challenge post is reprinted at the end of this post.) … Continue reading Tarot Mentors Expanded →