Exploring the Liminal Through Tarot

If you haunt certain corners of the internet, you’ve likely seen a lot about liminal spaces — eerie photos of abandoned shopping malls, darkly lit corridors devoid of life, or vast, empty parking lots. For years, folks have been gathering liminal imagery online, like magpies attracted to the eerie and strange, forming communities around these oft-ignored thresholds.

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Review: Dark Goddess Tarot

Each of the 78 cards in this deck depicts a different goddess from cultures in every region of the world. It is faithful to the traditional Smith-Rider-Waite deck, using the four suits and the Major Arcana, though the court cards have been redefined to represent strong, fearsome figures: Amazon (Page), Siren (Knight), Witch (Queen), and Hag (King). In that sense, every card in the deck has serious Queen energy. 

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Death-Card Stalker: Walking with Grief & the Grim Reaper

I can’t stop pulling the Death card, and I’m exhausted at the thought of what accepting its medicine entails. What more is there to lose? Clogging the drain, my hair. At the graveyard, my late friend Joe. All my remaining friendships, distant. Maybe it’s I who am untethered, afloat in the cosmos, devoid of blood and motion in my cells. I haven’t anything left to surrender.

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