10.10.2024
A meander through my Tarot Inbox . . . .
Quick preview: I’ll highlight posts from other newsletters, and take note of our seasonal focus on mortality.
Welcome everyone! And especially new readers.
Those who have been reading EP for a while may recall my irrational (in the good sense) conviction that meta-messages occasionally reach my Inbox in the form of subject lines with related words or themes. A similar effect occurs when one email catches my attention, and leads to unexpected discoveries.
At some point I decided to think of the former case as Inbox Synchronicity, and the latter as Inbox Serendipity.
Today’s story falls into the Serendipity basket—and here’s the paragraph that caught my attention. From Gina Wisotsky at Incandescent Tarot:
Here’s the story it came from:
Since I’ve been meaning for a while to do a post that highlights other Tarot newsletters, this seemed like a gentle nudge. So I dropped the word “Tarot” as a search term in my Inbox, and scanned the previous few days:
(Thanks, new subscribers!)
Some emails in that snip come from sources you might be familiar with—and several have been mentioned on EP at one time or another. But a couple did not immediately click with Tarot in my mind, so I tracked them down . . .
Ruth Bowers at Creative Biz News was definitely not on my Tarot radar, but here’s the paragraph that got her email into the search results:
Updates from LinkedIn occasionally bring something Tarot-related, but “Neil—founder and CEO” didn’t look familiar. And in fact, that item has nothing to to with Tarot. But I scrolled down and found a post from well-known Tarot author Kooch Daniels, who has a new book on the horizon. Find out more at her website!
So—those two items were Inbox Outliers. But as almost always happens, they led to interesting places.
Next, I looked at the Usual Suspects on my Inbox list, and found several items worth sharing. In the bargain, I had a sudden inspiration about how to organize/display the paths they provided, by laying out in a Trello board the various points visited.
I like this visual trail-of-breadcrumbs concept, at least for a first try.
Now, though, here are the details . . .
Chelsey Pippin Mizzi
As usual, this post on her Substack newsletter provides thoughtful commentary that relates Tarot to creative life. Here’s a snippet:
Scrolling down in the post, I found news about CPM’s new book . . . .
Looking for more info, I went to the Chronicle Books page, where I found this description:
While at Chronicle, I couldn’t help noticing a Cat Tarot I don’t think I’ve seen before. Here are several of Megan Lee Kott’s feisty felines:
And harking back to The Tower—what better illustration could there be? (I really like The Hermit, too.)
the fox and the tarot
From my Inbox:
Every two weeks, Nina Fox offers commentaries that blend astrology and Tarot, illustrated with works by one exceptional contemporary artist. Here’s an example from the latest post:
Her art correlations offer a distinctive layer of creative exploration, so if you haven’t yet—check out the site, and get on her mailing list.
While I was looking through the results of my Inbox search, I noticed several Tarot-related emails that focused on the theme of death and mortality—which is not surprising in the season that leads us to All Hallows Eve and All Souls Day.
I have a little more to write along those lines before the month is out, but for tonight I’ll have to end by sharing these two items:
More soon—including more about Tarot, AI, baseball, and . . .
C