I’m making my own Tarot deck.
I always wanted to do that, but it was challenging to find the time to pursue such a long endeavor. Almost a year ago, my friend Christina Engelhardt suggested that I make my own Tarot deck. She is a phenomenal Astrologer, an amazing and expert Tarot reader too. We decided to become partners to come up with a new Tarot deck. Her vast knowledge of Tarot and my art skills make a great team. She truly understands the mind of an artist and allows my creativity to flow freely. Not constraining the mind of an artist is the key to great art. By doing so, I even feel like I started developing my own style, which is one of the hardest things to come up with personally as an artist.
I’m basing it on one of the oldest and most popular Tarot decks ever made, the Rider-Waite deck. Notice this new deck has Astrology symbols, Zodiac symbols, and the Element. Most cards don’t have that. I thought it would be original to come up with a “Ballerina-themed” Tarot deck. The Ballet’s graceful aesthetics, storytelling, and artistic beauty create ethereal, elegant, flowing visuals. Incidentally, both originated in Italy. The first tarot decks were created in 15th-century Italy to play the card game Tarocchi. The ballet dance originated in the Italian Renaissance.
Doing this during my free time has been challenging while having a full-time job on The Simpsons. But after a year, I did it. I finished designing and partly coloring all 78 cards. Still have to move on to face two and fully color all the cards, mostly characters and backgrounds. That will probably take a long time as well. Rest assured, I’ll keep you in the loop. I thought about maybe calling this deck Tarot Dance, but that’s not a final name.
I also think it is perfect to share this in advance to promote this unique deck in the works, on the autumnal equinox.
I pulled six random cards to give you an idea of what they look like. And of course, Christina gave me a reading from them, the first reading from these cards ever.
See the reading for these cards in the comments below.
Happy Autumn Season.
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Christina's Reading:
So I’m looking at the six cards that you are using as an indicator for the deck, and if I did a reading for these cards, it would mean, obviously, as the King of Cups - I could see that as you in your full psychic mode, and the Ace of Wands with all your creativity and opportunity now coming to you. But the Five of Cups are the choices that you can’t do everything...There have been some things you had to set aside in order to do the things that need to be done. So it’s as if you have so many creative options that some have to be on the back burner and some have to be dealt with sooner, and even if you thought that there was a project that you had long ago put aside, it might need to come back up again. That’s why you have the next card of the Princess of Wands, who is about promoting and revealing, speaking and going on the Internet, and reaching out with your message, especially the message of a creative project that you have been very excited about. That's something that has been in a Hermit phase. Of course, to do great work like doing this Tarot deck, you go into a Hermit phase because you sit there concentrating, putting your ideas down, and then the Hermit phase can also be taking your great movie project, something that you put a lot into. But the Princess is now making it move forward and towards the King of Swords, which is either a Lawyer, a director, a person of power who will tie in with you and collaborate!
So I just thought I’d let you know that that’s what I saw in those six cards💡
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