Description
A dynamic re-envisioning of the tarot, including tarot card imagery, that describes how the tarot is queer, that the archetypes are alive, and that tarot doesn't tell the future; it creates it.
Radical Tarot meets the tarot in a space of evolution, deconstruction, and creation, using the historical and common meanings of the cards as a launchpad for digging into limiting beliefs and societal conditioning and unlocking the personal truths beneath.
The Fool's Journey is re-envisioned as a journey to non-binary thinking, the gender essentialism is ousted from the Major Arcana and the Court Cards-and all the cards-are reframed through a non-hierarchical, anti-capitalist, and intersectional lens. The archetypes are re-imagined in modern, progressive, and queered contexts. For example:
- The Empress and the body positivity movement
- Justice, not in the legal sense, but as ethical discernment and accountability
- Temperance and transcending the gender binary
- The Devil and anti-capitalism
- Judgement and revolution
Radical Tarot also touches on Charlie's personal story of how tarot helped them embrace their queerness, leave their marriage, and radically change their life. It speaks to their queer awakening and how tarot became, for them, a tool for social justice and conscious awareness of the world around them. Their words and experience will help anyone who wishes to be closer to their own authentic selves.
About the Author
Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) is a queer and non-binary tarot reader, tarot teacher, deck creator, writer, artist and witch. www.thewordwitchtarot.com
Book Information
ISBN 9781788179027
Author Charlie Claire Burgess
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Hay House UK Ltd
Publisher Hay House UK Ltd
Weight(grams) 435g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm