Recently while burrowing around the rabbit hole of TarotTube, I noted a series of videos, mostly deck reviews, where “diversity and inclusion” are mentioned on a regular basis. This is to be expected, I suppose, given modern Western culture and that this marginalized spiritual practice has been adopted by practitioners who often belong to marginalized […]
This year has been a very trying time for many people. In America, in addition to the global pandemic, we have had an unprecedented amount of civil unrest in many of our larger cities and a presidential election that, of course, went completely sideways. Listening to the “news” or other programs, viewers are constantly bombarded, […]
I am a total sucker for a list of just about anything. List of top ten best episodes of Star Trek? Reading it. List of ten worst episodes of Star Trek? I’m there. A list of the books some YouTuber read this year? Watching. Video of Top Ten Rider-Waite-Smith decks currently in production? One of […]
Creator and Writer: Rachel True Artist: Stephanie Singleton Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020 Rachel True’s True Heart Intuitive Tarot has thrust me into an existential dilemma, a conflict of gross cultural proportion. We here in the Deep South value our politesse. Mississippi, for all its past flaws and indiscretions, is “The Hospitality State.” Throughout […]
Tattoo Tarot: Ink and Intuition Publisher: Laurence King Publishing Ltd. http://www.laurenceking.com Year: 2018 Artist: Megamunden Text: Diana McMahon Collis My son and I were wandering around a mall recently when we stumbled upon a Spencer’s Gifts. Oh, what a world of naughty teen wonders! My son is sixteen now, so it’s not as though I […]
Published by Chronicle Books http://www.chroniclebooks.com (2020) Created and Written by Trungles (Trung Le Nguyen) I think it fair to say that the Star Spinner Tarot was one of the most hotly anticipated decks of 2020. I too had followed the artwork as I ran across it online. The jolly and enigmatic Fool, the warm and […]
Running Press Reviews: Tarot Nova and Everyday Tarot Publisher: Running Press, under the name RP Minis, http://www.runningpress.com As a frequenter of bookshops, I always run into that tall rack of absolutely needless crap standing dutifully next to the checkout line, the impulse purchase rack to ensnare us hoarders with our need to possess small totems […]
Publisher: Lo Scarabeo Illustrator: Renata Lechner A review of the Millennium Thoth Tarot will be difficult for me, and I’m quite certain that the review will sadly fall on the more pedantic and comparative side. I hold a great respect, even reverence for the Crowley-Harris Thoth. The first book I was ever recommended on tarot […]
Well, it finally happened. After over one hundred twenty years, the official flag of the state of Mississippi will be changed. I should be overjoyed since I have been a proponent of this change for many years, but I’m not. Not now. Not this way. For those not in the know, the Mississippi state flag […]
Publisher: KnockKnock, LLC Author: Suzi Barrett Illustrator: Vikki Chu How do I label my reactions to this deck? Excitement? A type of unbecoming juvenile giddiness? I don’t know. It was love at first sight. I saw it on the shelf in its beguiling purple box, saw the cheetah waving its wand, and I knew. Showing […]
The Tarot King of Mississippi