She uses Waite-Smith imagery shorn of some of the old-fashioned (some might say fussy or busy) details, and updated to reflect 21st century life. I’d say it’s also a good deck to pull out at psychic fairs, with nervous clients, or anywhere your querent’s reaction is an unknown quantity and you want to put them at ease. Included within The Modern Witch Tarot are two extra cards, Lisa has added a footnote at the end of her guidebook explaining that some readers may wish to exchange the ten of swords for her alternative cards ‘Everything Is Fine’.

We’re slowly moving from whitewashing and tokenism, and now that we’re here it’s still imperative to improve. Lisa is an artist who throughout her work has aided hundreds of people to connect to the magical space that is made of imagination and insight. If we put our most recommended books of the year into a tarot deck, there’s three in particular we would hope to draw.Here is a short video-walkthrough guide that I have put together further explaining The Modern Witch Tarot deck. The cards are substantially heavy with a thick glossy finish that feels suited for outlasting years of daily use. But on the whole, I think that’s a matter of personal taste, and there are people who will find the costuming of the characters in this deck much more relatable.

After exercising your right of objection, we will not process your personal data further for these purposes, unless we can prove compelling reasons for processing worthy of protection that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or if the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims. Her work is often bright, expressive and occasionally tinged with horror – marrying her two favorite themes: the beautiful and the grotesque.

Over the past few weeks, I have carried out numerous readings for family and friends using The Modern Witch Tarot deck. If you have any questions regarding the collection, processing or use of your personal data, for information, correction, restriction or deletion of data as well as revocation of given consents or objection to a certain use of data, please contact us directly via the contact data in our imprint. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Asali Earthwork with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.

In some cases, the selected payment service providers also collect this data themselves if you open an account there. This was just around the beginning of the indie tarot deck boom, and we were yet to be spoiled by an influx of inclusive decks that crowdsourcing made possible. The deck’s guidebook is sized to fit in the box which y’all know by now is always a point of hallelujah for me.Featuring colorful and diverse figures adorned with modern styles and symbols, this all-female deck celebrates both tradition and innovation.

What sold this project to me was Sterle’s amazing version of The Magician card featuring a young Black girl- something I’d frankly never seen in before. This tiny little fifty-six-page guidebook has a hardback cover featuring artwork from the ten of swords (Lisa’s first work towards and inspiration for this deck). TAROT READINGS: record your readings and interpretations, with space both for shorter and more complex readings – track your personal growth! I stared at the Seven of Wands for a good two minutes trying to imagine how anyone could do martial arts while wearing those heels.

And that’s really the core of the Modern Witch Tarot, for women and femmes to see themselves represented in the cards; a deck that looks like its readers- across ages, bodies, races, and gender expressions. The Modern Witch Tarot is a magical take upon the traditional RWS tarot, inspired by fashion and modern witches from every walk of life, this divine deck will spark your imagination, enable you to seek your inner wisdom and aid you in the discovery of your true power.