The Fortune Teller

The “Waking the Wild Spirit” Tarot deck by Poppy Palin is a colourful, light-hearted deck with a whimsical pagan slant. It is reviewed in depth at this link on the Aeclectic Tarot site. Unfortunately, it is out of print now. A few copies are  still available to buy new directly from the author at this link. It has become a bit of a collector’s item, it seems.

The spirit of Tarot is not above poking some fun at the card reader, as I discovered when I pulled The Fortune Teller in January 2016. The Fortune Teller corresponds to the Page of Cups in traditional Tarot decks. Here is my journal entry from the time.

“There is something perverse in the Tarot giving a Tarot reader a picture of a Tarot reader. I stared at the card blankly for ages, trying to find a deep significance in it, getting frustrated. Then I realised that it was just the Tarot’s warped sense of humour telling me to lighten up.”

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