Tidings

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Hi friends,

Welcome to footnotes & feathers, the newest corner of the Tarot Magpie nest. Here, I’ll share my thoughts and ideas about the tarot, its system and structure, and the ways we experiment and co-create between the cards. I’ve been hatching this space to wander through my ideas and share them with you.

Clockwise from top: Fifth Spirit Tarot; Lovers postcard from Print Is Dead; Occult Ornithology tarot; Guardian of the Night tarot; print from Katie Whittle Art.

I love to take the tarot apart to see how it works, and figure out how I can reconstruct it in a way that makes intuitive sense to me. I’m all about experimenting and personalising your practice, and I intend for this space to hold the ideas I’m still trying to unravel, where I can share my ideas-in-progress.

My plan is for all posts here to be freely available to everyone, with nothing here paywalled. This also means there will be no strict schedule here, and instead I’ll share ideas when they feel ready to be seen.

If you like to think about how you think, how others think, and if you have even a passing interest in the archetypes and ideas stored between the 78 cards of the tarot, then I hope you will stick around and see what we can come up with. I’ve got a brain full of mind maps and endless questions, so if you’re into creative tarot practice and ideas you can remix, I’d love for you to stick around.

Sylvie

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