witchcraft
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Design Notes 4: System and Structure
There’s more to an oracle than the visual imagery. In previous parts of this series I hope I successfully implied that I believe the role of the art can be overstated. Obviously Tarot and Oracles are visual tools, once described as “the Devil’s picture book” and the artwork is important to every owner and reader.…
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Design Notes 3: Art, Format, Representation
For the third episode in this series of thoughts and processes with the design of my new oracle deck I’m going to address an elephant in the room. The elephant is generative art, or more commonly referred to as AI art. There’s a lot of stigma around this topic, lots of valid concerns and lots…
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Design Notes, Part 2: Format and Platform
Welcome to the second part of my thought processes around the oracle deck I’m developing. I’m trying to create the deck I’ve always wanted to read with, something that’s as comprehensive and substantial as a 78-card Tarot deck but like an Oracle in that I’m working with a structure and sensibilities that are distinctly not…
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Reversals of Fortune (how Modernism got superseded, and what that means for Tarot)
When I first saw a reference to the Reversed iteration of a Tarot card meaning, I was perplexed. Truthfully, I’m still kind of perplexed about the whole idea, and even more so by people who take the idea seriously. What this refers to, and thank goodness the name implies it because there was no explanation…
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