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Lua Decks Nominated for 2021 CARTA Awards

10/7/2021

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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'm so grateful and honored to have my work be included in the International Tarot Foundation judges' nominees list among some really incredible decks! 

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Lua Tarot Nominated for WDA 2021 Award

9/9/2021

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The Lua Tarot has been nominated Best Indie Deck at the WDA 2021 Awards! What an honor to be included in this group of incredible deck creators! Thank you to the folks who nominated it.
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If you'd like to support Lua Tarot, please take a moment to vote at the World Divination Assoc. Awards poll.

To be counted, vote soon as the poll closes Sept 15th (London midnight), Tues., Sept 14th, 4:00pm PST. Thank you!

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Lua Tarot's Chariot

8/3/2021

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PictureLua Tarot Chariot
Today's Lua Tarot “In the Card” description: The Chariot. 

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.” This portrait came from a book about the French Antilles.

The horses are from a British children’s weekly called Chatterbox. The original image depicted one horse actualIy, so I digitally added the other horse to reflect the RWS Chariot. Though here, they are black and white horses to represent the opposing forces, which the charioteer harnesses to propel herself forward with her purpose. 


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Lua Tarot's Three of Coins

7/29/2021

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PictureLua Tarot Three of Coins
The 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.


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Lua Tarot's Emperor

7/28/2021

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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.)  
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As a deck creator, particularly one who excavates 19th century photographs and engravings, I seek out images that fit intuitively and functionally with the collages that I create.   
  
It’s hard to explain, but there’s a whole process. I get into a “space” for the card I’m designing and open to a particular flow of creativity. 


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Leo Season, 1st Decan of Leo, 7/22-8/1

7/22/2021

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PictureTarot Decan: Lua Tarot 5 of Wands, World and Strength.
​We've entered Leo Season (Strength 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 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 it does not necessarily have to be negative, as we can look at this as friendly competition and sportsmanship, if we shift perspective. 


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Stocked Locally

7/16/2021

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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.


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Cancer III Decan, Four of Cups, Moon in Cancer

7/13/2021

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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. 


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Divine Muses Oracle & Lua Tarot coming soon

7/6/2021

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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. You can subscribe you’d like to receive that email.

It’s amazing that both of the decks arrived at the same time! Making this an unintentional double release of these second editions.

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Cancer II - Three of Cups - Mercury in Cancer

7/3/2021

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Picture36 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? >>>


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    Maree Bento is a collage artist and practitioner of the mystical & healing arts.

    She’s a tarot reader and deck creator who enjoys studying the stars and using astrology in her readings. She was 
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