I’ve developed a shorthand language for the tarot cards that come up most often for me and my clients. No tarot hoarder over here, I use the same deck for years before I feel the urge to move on to new images and their fractal meanings. For those of you who’ve been reading
since its birth in the fall of 2021, you’re well-used to Irene Mudd’s Guided Hand Tarot, the deck from which I’ve been flipping all these years.No deck is perfect, my teacher Austin Coppock likes to say. Each contains flawed meanings, cartomantic visions that don’t mesh with the reality invoked by the draw. But get to know one deck over a long enough period of time, the flaws become instrumental—necessary—in the power of divination to reflect that murky place when cause and effect don’t match up. When human expectation is undercut by the chaos of the real.