"If you want to be
immortal, stick a
wax mould all around
your bones and take your
temperature when the moon
is full."
Fool’s Journey: A new collection of tarot poetry & art
Category: Books
OPEN THREAD | Our community summer reading roundup
You name it, we're reading about it! Here's an inspiring roundup of the books LRT writers are reading this summer. How about you? Let us know what you're reading in this open thread!
REVIEW | Queer Magic: Power Beyond Boundaries, edited by Lee Harrington & Tai Fenix Kulystin
Asali asks "What is Queer Magic?", reviewing a project that centers the margins and brings together a beautifully wide range of stories and spiritual modalities.
REVIEW | Learn the major arcana with your children & King Billy
Even if you don't have kiddos in your life, King Billy and the Royal Road will help you to dive deeper into your own tarot practice.
REVIEW | We are the Weirdos by Maranda Elizabeth: Catharsis of in/justice
“We are the Weirdos explores trauma, gender, poverty, invalidation, and memory, as well as themes of trust, abandonment, confinement, and revenge.”
REVIEW | Witchbody, by Sabrina Scott
Witchbody shows us that "magic is a way of talking, and a way of being with", exploring and celebrating the power of connection between all things.
REVIEW | Modern Tarot by Michelle Tea
Maranda reviews the unconventional, unapologetically political, queer, feminist guide to reading tarot from a beloved and prolific writer.
REVIEW | Jailbreaking the Goddess by Lasara Firefox Allen
This book takes critiques every progressive person has about the traditional Maiden, Mother, Crone Goddess path (ugh, virginity! ugh, wombs!) and offers a much-needed alternative.
REVIEW | Kitchen Table Tarot: Learn tarot…with a big side of sass
Melissa Cynova's brilliant book for tarot learners demystifies intimidating symbols and helps you get to grips with your tarot cards.
See the Cripple Dance: The (in)tangibilities of writing, dreaming, & trusting
"Each time I finish a project, each time somebody tells me my writing has helped keep them alive, I remember that I am one of the ones who was not expected to survive."
REVIEW | The Remedy: Queer and trans voices on health and health care
"I read most of this book while sitting in a hot bath and after each piece I would stop, take a deep breath and feel the wisdom from the book landing in my body."
See the Cripple Dance: To be disabled is to resist
What does it mean to resist while housebound? Maranda Elizabeth reads Starhadwk's Dreaming the Dark.
TABULA IDEM: A Queer Tarot Comic Anthology
A Major Arcana bringing age-old archetypes into the modern, queer light, powered by independent artists (and Kickstarter).
Your favourite tarot books
REVIEW | She is Sitting in the Night: Revisioning Thea’s Tarot through a queer lens
She Is Sitting in the Night is unlike any tarot book I have ever read. In many ways it feels like the tarot book I have been waiting for for years. It’s a collaboration between Rima Athar, whose idea it was to ‘revison’ an 80s tarot deck, writer and tarotist Oliver Pickle, who wrote the …