Tag: tarot decks
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The Wooden Tarot: Suit of Blooms 2-5
This is part of an ongoing series in which I write about my interpretations of the cards in A.L. Swartz’s Wooden Tarot. You can find the other posts here. Yes, I’m going through these quite quickly because I want to keep up the momentum (and also finish them while I have time off of work…
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The Wooden Tarot: Introduction to the Suit of Blooms
This is part of an ongoing series in which I write about my interpretations of the cards in A.L. Swartz’s Wooden Tarot. You can find the other posts here. The suit of Blooms in the Wooden Tarot corresponds to the suit of Cups/Chalices/Vessels, etc. in other decks. This means that Blooms are ruled by the…
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The Wooden Tarot: Suit of Bones 6-10
This is part of an ongoing series in which I write about my interpretations of the cards in A.L. Swartz’s Wooden Tarot. You can find the other posts here. Six of Bones The bones of a hand with six fingers. Again, since I don’t know that much about skeletal anatomy, I googled whether or not…
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The Wooden Tarot: Suit of Bones 2-5
This is part of an ongoing series in which I write about my interpretations of the cards in A.L. Swartz’s Wooden Tarot. You can find the other posts here. I think this set of cards may be the most sparsely illustrated in the entire deck, which is both freeing and intimidating. The Wooden Tarot, while…
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The Wooden Tarot: Introduction to the Suit of Bones
Recently, I broke down and bought The Wooden Tarot and the Earthbound Oracle by A. L. Swartz. The Wooden Tarot in particular has been on my list for a long time. In the spring, when I was deciding which new tarot deck to buy for myself, I had it narrowed down between the Wild Unknown…
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Deck Sale!
As I have come to find out more about myself as a tarot reader, I have come to better understand what I look for in a deck. Therefore I have decided to pare my 11-deck collection down to 5. I have already found homes for three of my decks, but would like to offer the…
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What’s new?
I’m back after over a month on hiatus. I returned from my wonderful trip to Vermont on August 8th and spent the next three weeks finishing my dissertation. Tarot was indeed a powerful part of my experience in Vermont and I’m drafting a post about it, but right now I thought I would do the…
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Deck Review: The Linestrider Tarot
The Linestrider Tarot by Siolo Thomson was funded through Indiegogo in the spring of 2015. I jumped on the funding campaign’s bandwagon at the last minute once I saw pictures of these beautiful cards. They were produced in a very limited edition, but fortunately they will be published Llewellyn in the spring or summer of…
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Dharma and the Dreaming Way
The Dreaming Way Tarot, written by Rome Choi and illustrated by Kwon Shina was published in 2012. I’d seen many photos and reviews of this deck online and was attracted to it, but had no plans on buying it any time soon. But a few weeks ago something happened that shook me up a little…
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The Wild Unknown
Like everyone and their cat in the tarot world, I now have a copy of the Wild Unknown Tarot by Kim Krans. The card images I saw online made a lot of sense to me intuitively. And as I’m drawn to decks with simpler artwork (particularly those where the emphasis is on line rather than…