The Fairy Lights Tarot was created in an interesting way. The artist made paintings that were scenes containing two cards. The scenes were then split to create the two separate cards. The designer says that because of this method of creation, there are special ties or resonances between the split cards. They were painted in pairs that we might not automatically think of as natural pairs, so we are encouraged to push our thinking about the cards beyond our normal bounds. Here are some of the original images and the resulting cards. PLEASE NOTE: the cards used here do NOT show the final card design. They were preliminary designs and I used them because those were the scans I was

I really enjoyed the experience in (The Queen, The Tower, and Me) and decided to have another. This time I changed it up a bit by picking a deck I love but that isn’t based on the Rider-Waite tradition (by that I mean decks with cards that are recognizable to those familiar with the Rider-Waite deck). I selected another court card with which I don’t have a great relationship: the Knight of Cups. The card that the Knight and I will interpret is the 3 of Pentacles (just because I took a fancy to it). These cards are from the Tarot of the Sweet Twilight. For me, one of the hardest aspects of working with a non-Rider-Waite clone is letting go of the ingrained meanings I have for