Rachel Pollack (1945-2023) needs no introduction; she was one of the greatest tarot mentors of our time, deepening all of our practices in the book that many of us consider our “bible”: Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom. Originally published in 1986, Tarot: The Open Labyrinth,has long been out of print. In this 40th Anniversary Edition, we…
For episode 28 of TABI’s Tarot World podcast, Victoria and I interviewed Byron Ballard, Appalachian witch, folklorist, author, and artist. It was a fascinating discussion, and if you haven’t had the chance to listen to it yet, I would highly recommend it. You can find it on Spotify (or listen wherever you get your podcasts):…
What Traditional Chinese I Ching Divination Can Add to Tarot Practice: Concrete Questions, Outcomes, and Timing Through the Na Jia Method (Wen Wang Gua) Guest blogger: Xuan Wanyan Tarot and the I Ching may look very different, but both begin with a question and a divinatory result. Drawing the cards or forming a hexagram is…
The Witch’s Homestead Oracle follows the ‘cottagecore’ aesthetic and sentiment, something I knew very little about until this review. Idealising life on the farm and in the cottage, this style of art emphasizes a return to the simple life. Baking bread, making preserves, darning socks, gardening and foraging are intrinsic to the imagery of slow…
I recently attended the TABI-sponsored “Egyptomania” lecture by Robert M. Place (which I highly recommend). So, like a lot of us, I have a fascination with cartomancy in ancient Egyptian culture. The Anubis’ Gift oracle deck appealed to me for this very reason and creator Fabrizio Uffreduzzi delivers a complex 50-card deck that’s steeped in…
I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect with an oracle deck solely devoted to sage wisdom from cats. Not that cats don’t have sage wisdom (they do; some probably more than I do), but I wondered how that could translate into a deck of inspirational cards that didn’t just rely on an obvious cute factor….