You can’t keep a Good Magician in the Trunk. Abracadabra! Alakazam! Peer Beyond the Veil! Witness for yourself the enchantment of MYSTIC TAROT — a Tarot Pack steeped in the tradition of Edwardian Mysticism! SEE! -- Thrilling Feats of Legerdemain! SEE! -- Hair-Raising Escapes from Destiny Itself! “Ladies and gentlemen, we wish to call your attention to what we consider a very unique and novel method of fortune telling with cards. We find it a very easy matter to delve into the past, present and future of anyone and lay bare many things of interest in their lives, especially interesting to their friends and neighbors. What we are about to undertake is experiments in mental telepathy, thought transference, and various...
Hard as it is to believe, 2023 marks the ten-year anniversary of TAROT OF THE ZIRKIS MÄGI, the deck that quite literally saved my life and launched this site. The correct pronunciation, by the way, is “Maggie” — as with the old comic strip characters Maggie and Jiggs, or Maggie O’Connell, the free spirited lady pilot of NORTHERN EXPOSURE whose boyfriends are known for their mortality rate. It is an Estonian surname. Don’t feel bad if you didn’t know this. I didn’t know the correct pronunciation myself until years after the deck had been published! This is particularly embarrassing, as before the deck arrived I wrote an entire novel centered around a circus family named Mägi — and I was...
Le TAROT des ANIMALERIES is now available in both Large and Standard Tarot sizes. As with most of my decks, this one is produced one at a time as they are ordered (which is how I can offer them with your choice of several different card backs), and so the quantiles are very limited indeed. As an example, The Marvelous Oracle of Oz is by far my best-selling Oracle produced in this fashion, and at this writing there are fewer than 300 copies of it in existence. Due to the multiple card backs, there will be even fewer of each variety out there in the wild, even if it becomes a "best seller." I am forced to charge more than what...
On Valentine's Day, Mr. Whitey had his life taken away from him. He was a great pussycat for two decades, and the last surviving link to my past. The last time I wrote about him was somewhere on my old blog, at www.ducksoup.me. As he got older, he was plagued by chronic Tummy Trouble (not the scientific term, obviously, but my brain has gotten even more scattered than normal these past couple of weeks) requiring almost daily medication. I had to work hard to keep him going these last few years. But sometime between Sunday night and Monday noon, his left eye ruptured. I don't know the cause, but I do know that that eye was irritating him recently, and...
A long-term project is finally nearing the finish line -- at least in part. I've been working on LE TAROT DES ANIMALERIES (or, The Tarot of Pet Shops) for the better part of two years. With the Major Arcana now completed, the opportunity to do an early-issue Majors Only deck was there, but I took some time to think about what I could do to make such a release really special. First, it will be an extremely Limited Edition, meaning only as many copies as are actually ordered by customers and collectors will be produced. Second, it will only be available (for reasons that will become evident below) in a striking giant-sized 3.5" x 5.75" deck. I know that some...
