{"id":7231,"date":"2015-12-17T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/?p=7231"},"modified":"2015-12-17T10:38:30","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T15:38:30","slug":"christmas-cards-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/?p=7231","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Cards, sort of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a tarot enthusiast on your list? I used to collect, and have been considering doing so again, because the art is fantastic. I used to read, but my growing skepticism finally made me uncomfortable with the practice. I still have the same <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aeclectic.net\/tarot\/cards\/aquarian\/\">deck<\/a> I started with 35 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>For your delectation, here are some lovely decks.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7232\" style=\"width: 393px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schifferbooks.com\/lowbrow-tarot-major-arcana-cards-4985.html\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7232\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7232\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7232\" src=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/9780764342356d.jpg\" alt=\"Lowbrow Tarot\" width=\"383\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/9780764342356d.jpg 383w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/9780764342356d-192x300.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7232\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lowbrow Tarot<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schifferbooks.com\/lowbrow-tarot-major-arcana-cards-4985.html\">Lowbrow Tarot<\/a> only includes the major arcana, but that&#8217;s 22 works by folks like Kris Kuksi and Molly Crabapple. Delish.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7233\" style=\"width: 405px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schifferbooks.com\/lowbrow-tarot-major-arcana-cards-4985.html\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7233\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7233\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7233\" src=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/39.jpg\" alt=\"Shadowscapes Tarot\" width=\"395\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/39.jpg 395w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/39-182x300.jpg 182w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shadowscapes Tarot<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Stephanie Pui-Min Law is one of my favorite artists, and collecting her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowscapes.com\/Tarot\/cardsmain.php?suit=0\">tarot<\/a> deck is at the top of my list.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7234\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monolithgraphics.com\/tarot.html\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7234\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7234\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7234\" src=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/unnamed.jpg\" alt=\"Gothic Tarot\" width=\"480\" height=\"854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/unnamed.jpg 480w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/unnamed-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gothic Tarot<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I found the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monolithgraphics.com\/tarot.html\">Gothic Tarot<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnightsyndicate.com\/\">Midnight Syndicate<\/a>&#8216;s site when I was buying their new Christmas disk. Joseph Varga&#8217;s art is classic Gothic monsters and mayhem.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7235\" style=\"width: 328px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/store.sho.com\/penny-dreadful-tarot-cards-set-of-78\/detail.php?p=595750\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7235\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7235\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7235\" src=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/pdback_med_hr.jpeg\" alt=\"Penny Dreadful Tarot\" width=\"318\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/pdback_med_hr.jpeg 318w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/pdback_med_hr-173x300.jpeg 173w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Penny Dreadful Tarot<\/p><\/div>\n<p>These are the cards that inspired this post. I was watching the show, and greatly admired the simple, beautiful designs by\u00a0Ana\u00efs Chareyre.<\/p>\n<p>Choose your deck,\u00a0and find out if your days will be merry and bright&#8230;or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a tarot enthusiast on your list? I used to collect, and have been considering doing so again, because the art is fantastic. I used to read, but my growing skepticism finally made me uncomfortable with the practice. I still have the same deck I started with 35 years ago. For your delectation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-shopping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7236,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7231\/revisions\/7236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}