Making art about people doing fun things with their bodies.
Making art about people doing fun things with their bodies.
The World is the culmination of everything you’ve experienced. It’s the end of the road. You can rest comfortably and joyfully in the world you have had a huge part of creating, and which you have a perfectly you-sized place in. Demands Come home. You belong here. Delights Falling asleep in a bed of feathers, […]
Judgment is just a mirror. When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Something you like, or something you’d like to change? Demands Take stock of your whole self. What have you accomplished? What are you showing to the world? Are you happy with yourself? Delights Now’s a great time to make changes […]
The Sun wants us to enjoy all that we have now, brought by all we have experienced. This isn’t the Empress with her lush, verdant aura – this is a PARTY with our friends. This is Dixie De La Tour. Demands Get out of the workshop, get away from the desk, get off the computer, […]
The Moon reminds us of changeability, cycles, and things that maybe don’t look exactly as they are. Demands The Moon demands that you look through reflected light, to see what can be seen by looking at the edges. Delights The Moon delights in changing. Just when you think it’s going one way, predictably, it goes […]
The Star reminds us that something good can come after the end of something. You’re still standing. Now what? Demands Decide if you’re going to be alive or not. If you’re going to be alive, then… be alive. Delights You survived that which destroyed. Look at how strong you are! Back to the Cards
The Tower is destruction. It’s a building being imploded because of a fucked up foundation. This card is loud and final. Demands Accept that it’s over, or do what you need to do to MAKE it over. Delight Sometimes there’s beauty in watching the world burn. We love watching transformation; show me a neurodivergent queer […]
The Devil is the container of darker, more primal impulses. Fear, lust, anger, and self-interested motivations often drive the Devil. Demands Examine what scares you, what makes you ragey. This is the animal part of you. Delights Letting the monster out for a walk. You might be *very* surprised by what she’s got to tell […]
Temperance is a way to a good life. Don’t get too intensely into one thing or another, or you will fall off balance. No one wants that. Demands DO NOT fall for NRE or the fervor of new things. Likewise, DO NOT fall for corrosive negative rumination or bad habits, because it will hurt you […]
Death is an ending, but also a beginning. It signifies a transition, where one iteration ends and the next begins. Demands Submit to the fact that you can’t keep things going as they are. We’re all subject to death, but of the raw material, something new can come. Delights This is a season, and spring […]
The Suspended One, also the Hanged Man, reminds you that you’re kind of stuck right now. Maybe that’s okay. Stuck isn’t the worst thing in the world. Demands Sit still before you make things worse. Struggle is going to make it harder. Delights The Suspended One delights in the momentary breath. If you’re stuck and […]
Justice is about equilibrium and equity. When the justice card shows up, it can be a reminder that something doesn’t feel right, morally. It can be a clarion call to act in the interest of members of your community. It can be a notice that you aren’t being treated justly yourself. Demands Justice demands that […]
The Wheel of Fortune reminds you that you know nothing. You actually have no control over the ultimate outcome of your situation. This is a neutral fact – what happens next is yours to decide the meaning of. Demands The Wheel of Fortune demands that you submit to what you can’t control. It’s not a […]
The Hermit retreats to their own safe place to learn and meditate by themself, without the influence of other actors. Demands The Hermit wants to be left alone. There’s something they need to process, learn, or marinate on, and they can’t do it publicly – so please stand by while they go into retreat mode. […]
Strength is about quiet, deeply internal fortitude. It’s not muscles and brawn, it’s taming the lion through gentle leadership. This is the card that *could* be tempted to absolutely dress someone down for a minor, but extremely irritating nuisance… but instead, chooses to count to ten and act with grace instead. Demands Get your inner […]
The Chariot loves forward motion. This is the territory of an underdog on her way to accomplish amazing things. The Chariot is driven by someone with an objective, and a solid set of blinders. Perhaps they have had the experience of connecting with the Lovers, and now they are ready to build something, launch something, […]
The Lovers love love. The Lovers love connection. This *often* shows up as romance, eroticism, and those types of connections, but they are often the magnetic pull you feel toward a friend who started in the scene around the same time as you, or a volunteering buddy you’ve got a good rhythm with. This card […]
The Hierophant is the keeper of spiritual community knowledge. Like the bootblacks’ ethos, they aim to guide by service, care for their community, and do it with traditions and passed-down knowledge. Demands The Hierophant demands that you engage with dogma. At any point in our lives, we should be both teacher and student in this […]
The Emperor wants you to use your best sense of ethics to be a good custodian of your wider community. He’s the trusted dungeon monitor at the very best dungeon party. He cares about rules and regulations, following directions, and order. Demands The Emperor demands… just so many things. He demands order, fidelity to rules, […]
The Empress’s favorite word is “lush.” She brings with her fertility and creative abundance. She is, after all, abundance itself. She’s often depicted on a throne, in bountiful nature, and sometimes pregnant (though, I have to just interject here – if parenthood and pregnancy doesn’t do it for you, I try to think of it […]
The High Priestess is the conduit between the world we can see and touch, and that which lives beneath. She’s the one who shows you your shadows, and asks you to examine them. Demands The High Priestess demands that you poke at the edges of where things are dark and obscured, and sit with what […]
The Magician is a powerful creator, a maker of big things, ideas, and change. They conjure the things they want, from the resources they have. Demands The Magician demands that you look around at what’s at hand, and make something from it. You have plenty of things stacked in your favor – and you should build […]
The Fool is the most powerful card in the entire deck. They signify a new beginning, a clean slate, and a sense of freshness. They exist in all of us, in various points throughout their life. Demands The Fool demands that you do The Thing, whatever that might be. The fact is, you don’t know […]
