tarot is a very personal thing, and as such, the art on each deck reflected the woman who owned it. maura’s was all dark lines and simple colors, at once perfunctory and childlike. calla’s was lush and oversaturated, the cards overflowing with detail. every card in orla’s deck featured a couple kissing or making love, whether or not the card’s meaning was about kissing or making love. gwenllian had fashioned her own by scratching dark, frantic symbols on a deck of ordinary playing cards. jimi stuck by the sacred cats and holy women deck that she’d found in a thrift store in 1992.
