Welcome to The Chalice
Happy almost New Year everyone! I’m so excited to share my new endeavor, The Chalice, a blog spilling over with clarity, connection, and design from the art of Tarot. As some of you may know, I am a creative, designer, and art lover by trade. Since picking up my first Tarot deck at 12 years old, I have found that the cards have such a beautiful, powerful and compelling nature to them—not only from an esoteric and metaphysical perspective but also from a design lens, too.
As I have grown over the years with the Tarot, collecting different decks ranging from the traditional to the more obscure, I’ve come to appreciate the ways in which their designers, artists, and creatives not only interpret the cards but also how that interpretation expresses itself in a deck’s imagery. Some scholars say that the Tarot is the most copied ‘book’ in the world since its inception in the mid-1400s. While that fact might be hard to prove, I can’t help but think that with each duplication, the creator leaves a bit of themselves behind in each of the 78 cards.
While studying abroad in Vienna, Austria many years ago, I was lucky enough to take extensive coursework in visual literacy: the ability to decode, interpret and contextualize simple (or sometimes complex) imagery, especially in the world of art. While studying this practice, I began to unpack how influential images are for us beings here on Earth. When we combine this practice with the seemingly infinite number of images that fall from each recreation of the Tarot, our minds open up to so many new and exciting ways to reflect on our own (or a client’s) reality.
My goal for the foreseeable future is to use my background in design, art history, and visual literacy to bring the maximum clarity and context to each card in the Major Arcana. It is my hope that as we take each card in its singularity, comparing their similar nuances and contrasting their overt differences we are able to unlock an even greater understanding of these Tarot pillars.
I can’t wait to take the journey with all of you.