The She Can Lift a Horse Tarot is an ongoing series. To see the complete collection (so far) and to purchase prints and stickers, visit my shop.

I read Tarot for myself and friends and have found that drawing the cards helps me to meditate on their meanings and connect with them more personally.

My first deck, the Tarot Mucha, was a big inspiration for this series. In Tarot Mucha, the Devil is depicted as a beautiful woman, as opposed to the gross, gluttonous masculine figure seen in the traditional Rider-Waite Tarot. Seeing this feminine depiction not only made the card feel more relatable, but it helped me to see the Devil’s many facets: not just scary or vile, but powerful, uninhibited, and humorous. I wanted to make a deck where every card had a feminine center, where women and girls could be funny, sad, angry clueless, and everything in-between. The illustrations echo that of the easily recognizable Smith-Waite while paying homage to my favorite literary and pop culture figures. Through movie, tv, and fairy tales, it’s easy (and fun!) to see the archetypes of the Tarot in my own lived experience.

My sister has a habit of sending individual Tarot cards to the people they reminded her. I typically prop cards up in a place I’ll come across them frequently, which helps me to contextualize them differently at different times. I think Tarot is a lot like yoga: they say the real learning happens “off the mat”. The archetypes are something I think about a lot and have become touchstones in my every day life, outside of readings.

With my prints, I hope to give people the feeling of a genuine card straight out of a deck, a bit of concentrated energy for them to keep or gift to others who might benefit from it. My prints consists of a small 3”x5” card on sturdy soft gloss art paper, which is hand-cut with rounded corners, then mounted onto a thick matte cardstock. The difference in the two paper textures is subtle but effective. It’s a time consuming process, selling prints that are all all assembled by hand, but I think it’s a big part of what makes them special.