This is the PDF version of my artist book, Tarot for the Misguided Volume 2.

Volume 2 contains the minor arcana (coins, wands, swords, and cups) while Volume 1 contains the history of tarot and the major arcana (The Fool, Strength, etc.).

You’ll be getting:

• 127 pages.

• Each suit features a category to delve further into: Sacred Realms, Inspiring Humans, Tarot Pilgrimage, and Alternative Practices.

• 56 colored images of my tarot cards.

• File is 214 MB.

The idea of creating my own tarot deck came about because of a tiny songbird called a shrike. These lovely little morticians stick their excess prey on thorns or barbed wire for later consumption. I thought that the shrike would make the perfect Death card for a tarot deck. Then I wondered how tarot even came to be. Who created it? Why did they create it? Why is the art so iconic? Time would eventually make the idea into a physical book for people to enjoy and learn for themselves about the divinatory meaning of the cards, about the organism’s I chose for each card, or about how a man in the 18th century created what we know today as tarot.

I wanted to create a more accesible version of this book so here we have it! I hope you enjoy.

Notes about the physical book: I originally letterpress printed the text using photopolymer plates at Springtide Press here in Tacoma, WA. There are slits in the pages where the cards can be physically taken out of the book so you can use tarot. The cards are first spray painted to show the traditional image of the corresponding tarot card, then laser engraved, dyed, varnished, and finally glued to the back fo the card with PVA. The binding was a bradel stub binding to be able to accomadate the thickness the cards added to the pages.