The Goblin Tarot Companion

An outstanding new Tarot from John Matthews inspired by the Victorian poem Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti, beautifully illustrated by the renowned artist Charles Newington. The only Tarot to explore fully the whole world of faeries, including its more shadowy aspects - the goblins. This is a faery tarot with a difference, uncompromising in its portrayal of faeries as they really are: sly, frequently cruel, cleverer than humans and full of secrets, rather than the whimsical, sweet-natured creatures beloved of the Victorians and the New Age. It's the world of Christina Rossetti's The Goblin Market, a place where all denizens of the Otherworld come to buy and sell, to mingle and exchange gossip. It is a place unsafe for humans. But imagine if you could look through a window onto the scene, as Christina Rossetti does in her poem? Imagine the beings you would see there ... Here is a tarot of wit and wickedness, of challenge and uncertainty, of wonder and truth. This 80-card deck with 176-page guidebook offers as the Major Arcana a gallery of strange and wonderful creatures, from the Faery Queen to the Wiseman, plus intriguing motifs from the poem, such as the Secret Way and the Fallen Tree. Minor suits represent magical implements, fruits, flowers and elements. Enter a haunted, magical world - an enchanting landscape of falling towers, crumbling walls and tangled woods, of streams tumbling amongst mossy stones, of fallen trees and bones threaded with vines and spiked roses. Prepare to be enspelled ... and to discover the answers to your questions and dilemmas.

Only a handful of decks have changed the history of tarot. Two such decks are the 1909 Rider-Waite deck of A.E. Waite and Pamela Colman-Smith, and Aleister Crowley and Frieda Harris's Thoth tarot deck. This book offers a side-by-side comparison of these two classic decks.

This refreshingly contemporary take on Tarot is equal parts gorgeous art piece and thought-provoking spiritual touchstone. All 78 classic Tarot cards are represented, beautifully depicted in ethereal watercolors by Michelle Blade and eloquently explained in text by Jen Altman. The Circadian Tarot invites readers to start each day by reading a section at random (a technique known in the use of traditional Tarot decks as the single draw method"); the card thus revealed offers guidance for navigating hopes.

My Cute and Creepy Tarot deck is made up of the traditional 78 cards: 56 minor Arcana (4 suits of 14 cards each) and 22 major Arcana cards. In researching this project, I looked at many different tarot decks for layout and symbolism inspiration. The meanings in my companion guidebook are based on what "felt right" to me out of all the different decks I researched. Each card has a Monster, Yokai or Creature from Folklore on it. I tried my best to match the story of the creature, to the meaning of the cards. I have a great affinity for the cute, not classically cute per-se, but a cuteness that is there despite the horror of being a Monster. My love of Cute and my love of Creepy inspired this deck.

The Goblins and Gardens Tarot Deck is a 78 card tarot deck accompanied by a 12 page guide booklet. Goblins and Gardens features artwork collaged together from gardening encyclopedias and Dungeons and Dragons books and modules. This publication, and the project in general, focuses specifically on transforming the world of Dungeons and Dragons. Beyond that Goblins and Gardens seeks to encourage all readers to reconsider the ways in which we tell stories in general. Seen through the lens of gardening, old stories and characters that once focused primarily on violence find new life in a world that is both wild and post-colonial in nature.