I’m the kind of person who uses holiday mugs year-round. (Why should merriment be limited to one season a year?) So, it’s no stretch of the imagination to understand why I gravitated toward the Yuletide Tarot the moment this new edition was available. Author Kristoffer Hughes and artist Erin O’Leary Brown have created a whimsical…
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):…
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…
Jasmine Becket-Griffith and David Van Gough are the visual arts duo who have created the Death and the Maiden Creativity Journal published by Blue Angel. It is one of the many commercial offerings connected to the graphic novel series Death and the Maiden published by Dren Productions, and written by James Mascia. Here is the…