 The Lua Tarot and Lenormand have been nominated for the 2021 CARTA awards!
The Lua Tarot has been nominated for the following categories: *Best Tarot Deck *Best Self-Published Tarot Deck *Outstanding Artistic Achievement The Lua Lenormand has been nominated for: *Best Oracle Deck I am grateful and honored to have my work be included in the International Tarot Foundation judges nominees list among some really fantastic decks!
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 The Lua Tarot has been nominated Best Indie Deck in the 2021 WDA Awards! What an honor to be included in this group of incredible deck creators! Thank you to those who nominated it!
If you would like to support the Lua Tarot, please vote at the World Divination Assoc. Awards poll soon, as the poll closes September 14th, 4:00pm PST. Thank you!  Lua Tarot Chariot Today’s Lua Tarot “In the Card” description features The Chariot, and the charioteer is a Martinique woman wearing Madras headdress and a beautifully embroidered dress.
As I’ve written before, many of these 19th century images are often unidentified and include captions like, “Martinique Madras.” Her portrait came from a book about the French Antilles. The horses are from a British children’s weekly called Chatterbox. The original image actually depicted one horse. I added the other horse to reflect the RWS image, but here we see black and white horses that represent opposing forces, which the charioteer harnesses to propel herself forward with her purpose.  Lua Tarot Three of Coins This Three of Coins shows two men singing the Gregorian Chant, an abbot who is stroking his chin, a six-pointed star from an architectural feature that I multiplied into the three that you see, and an arched hallway.
Sometimes these images are from an accompanying story, so there isn't a representation of someone specific. Quite a few of the people in the Lua Tarot are anonymous or unidentified, like this abbot. All that is identified about the other two people in the collage is that they are doing a Gregorian Chant.  Lua Tarot Emperor Discovering the people in the Lua Tarot. This is not Jesus. I know he looks like him, but this is from a photograph of a Persian man from the late 1870s. (That’s a laurel wreath on his head.)
As a deck creator, particularly one who excavates from 19th century photographs and engravings, I dig for images that for me fit intuitively and functionally with the collages that I create. It’s hard to explain, but there’s a process where I get into a “space” for the card I’m designing and open myself up to its particular flow of creativity.  The World, Five of Wands, and Strength from Lua Tarot We enter Leo Season (Strength tarot energies) today. I’m exploring the 1st decan of Leo in the Minor Arcana. Leo I is associated with the Five of Wands, which starts today July 22 and ends August 1st. Put the Five of Wands on your altar or reading table during this time to see how it shows up for you.
The Five of Wands can reflect anything from disputes to competition. Because this card is considered the “Lord of Strife” we see struggle between two or more parties, but does not necessarily have to be negative, as we can look at this as friendly competition and sportsmanship, if we shift perspective.  The Lua Tarot cards and the Divine Muses Oracle sets have been restocked locally in the Portland area at Raven's Wing and Invoke (now in Silverton), and in Seattle at Tenzing Momo.
If you're a brick and mortar shop who would like to carry my self-published creations, please contact me. If you'd like to see my work in your favorite local mystical shop, let them know I have decks for wholesale. Thank you.  Yesterday, we entered the third decan of Cancer, represented by the Four of Cups—the Moon in Cancer decan. The High Priestess (Moon) and Chariot (Cancer-ruled). The Golden Dawn title for the Four of Cups is The Lord of Blended Pleasure.
Four of Cups can bring up feelings of boredom, apathy and discontent in one's life. As we see in the RWS Cups Four, an angelic hand reaches out to show the young person the bounty that sits right in front of them. But, they don't even notice the miracle of this divine hand.  Decks have landed! I have some organizing to do, but orders will open for both the Lua Tarot and Divine Muses Oracle decks this Friday July 9th, on the New Moon, which is a Cazimi Moon!
I’ll share more details later and also be sending out an email to my notification list once the decks are live in the shop. It’s amazing that both of the decks arrived at the same time! Making this an unintentional double release of these second editions.  36 Secrets. Tarot Decans: Lua and Antiquarian Tarot We've entered Cancer II, the decan of the Three of Cups tarot card that lasts from July 1st - July 11.
This is the Lord of Abundance card, associated with Mercury in Cancer—and the Magician (Mercury ruled tarot card) and the Chariot (Cancer ruled tarot card). Three of Cups is a card of celebration, friendship, community, creativity, fun, and abundance. Consider how this energy may reveal itself to you in the next 10 days. Is it showing up for you yet?  Tarot Travel Altar Blessings to all this Super Strawberry Moon in Capricorn! I’m about to go on a little vacation and I always pack a travel altar with me. I usually use a small metal box, which I store my little altar items.
I’ll be using the Lua Tarot’s box as my travel altar this time. It’s like a diorama shrine. I’ll pack my altar items in a velvet bag to protect them and put the deck back in the box. The 2nd edition Lua Tarot will be back in the shop second week in July! I'll post here when it is available, please subscribe to be notified.  Lua Tarot Review The Lua Tarot has been featured in PARQ Magazine, a Portuguese trends magazine dealing with art, photography, fashion and urban lifestyle.
“Portuguese American deck creator Maree Bento’s Lua Tarot is unusual in the way it manipulates obscure 19th Century engravings and is an attempt to create deck which appears at first glance historical yet is contemporary in its diversity and inclusiveness...” Read the full article in English by Tarotist Roger Winstanley.  Lua Tarot and Lenormand Cards Full Moon is exact tonight at 8:31 pm PT. This Moon’s influence is under Scorpio, which is associated with the Tarot’s Death card—the Child of the Great Transformers and the Lord of the Gate of Death.
Scorpio’s ruling planet is Pluto and Pluto goes Retrograde tomorrow (1:03pm) for 6 months. Also: the USA is experiencing its first Pluto Return, currently 26° Capricorn (within 1° orb of US’s exact natal Pluto). While I was creating a Reel for Instagram, The High Priestess card came up to remind me of the Dark Moon energies we are entering. The Dark Moon is the Moon for priestess magic. The time to tap into your mystical or spiritual discipline, to quiet down and hear / understand the teachings intuitively. Moon entered Pisces early this morning and the New Moon in Pisces is Saturday at 2:21am PST! This is an invitation to recharge your mind and body if you've been feeling emotionally drained. May you be restored during this time. You can easily turn your Lua Tarot box into a card stand like this:
 Lua Tarot and Antiquarian Tarot Reading Spread Anyone else feeling this Swords-y energy at this Lunar New Year? Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, and the Sun & Moon are ALL currently vibrating in Aquarius energy.
With the Aquarius vibes, most Tarotists would think of The Star card, which perhaps does reflect the macrocosmic reality, but I’m not sensing that as strongly right now. I am sensing microcosmic mundane world in these three Swords cards today. |
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