Radical Tarot

Go beyond the traditional white, rich, cis European faces of the tarot and use it not only for predicting the future, but for creating a future not ruled solely by white, rich, European people. Meanings for each card, with no punches pulled, and keywords for the suits and each Major Arcana cards. Down to earth and great for beginners or more advanced readers.

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A dynamic re-envisioning of the tarot, including tarot card imagery, that describes how the tarot is queer, that the archetypes are alive, and that tarot doesn’t tell the future; it creates it.

Radical Tarot meets the tarot in a space of evolution, deconstruction, and creation, using the historical and common meanings of the cards as a launchpad for digging into limiting beliefs and societal conditioning and unlocking the personal truths beneath.

The Fool’s Journey is re-envisioned as a journey to non-binary thinking, the gender essentialism is ousted from the Major Arcana and the Court Cards—and all the cards—are reframed through a non-hierarchical, anti-capitalist, and intersectional lens. The archetypes are re-imagined in modern, progressive, and queered contexts. For example:

The Empress and the body positivity movement

Justice, not in the legal sense, but as ethical discernment and accountability

Temperance and transcending the gender binary

The Devil and anti-capitalism

Judgement and revolution

Radical Tarot also touches on Charlie’s personal story of how tarot helped them embrace their queerness, leave their marriage, and radically change their life. It speaks to their queer awakening and how tarot became, for them, a tool for social justice and conscious awareness of the world around them. Their words and experience will help anyone who wishes to be closer to their own authentic selves.