{"id":10222,"date":"2019-02-11T16:13:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T23:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10222"},"modified":"2021-05-03T14:24:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T20:24:42","slug":"a-north-american-tarot-deck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10222","title":{"rendered":"A North American Tarot Deck"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Emi Brady’s North American Tarot deck. (Photo: Colorado Public Radio).<\/p><\/div>\n

This would make a nice bookend to the American Renaissance Tarot<\/a> \u2014 Emi Brady’s North American Tarot.<\/p>\n

For more than a decade, Denver artist and printmaker Emi Brady toyed with the idea of her own tarot card deck. She \u201cwasn\u2019t ready\u201d until more recently.<\/p>\n

\u201cTechnically, I wasn\u2019t ready and I think emotionally I wasn\u2019t ready,\u201d Brady said. \u201cI was definitely still learning a lot of things about myself and I think the Tarot is about having a depth of knowledge and compassion for yourself and for others. And I just wasn\u2019t there”\u00a0 . . . . .<\/p>\n

Her own deck, The Brady Tarot<\/a>, is a set of hand-colored, linocut cards that she released in 2018. The imagery features nature, particularly fauna and flora native to North America. One of the most important things she wants is for people to realize that animals also \u201chave rich inner lives and we\u2019re not alone on this planet.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest at Colorado Public Radio.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This would make a nice bookend to the American Renaissance Tarot \u2014 Emi Brady’s North American Tarot. For more than a decade, Denver artist and printmaker Emi Brady toyed with the idea of her own tarot card deck. She \u201cwasn\u2019t ready\u201d until more recently. \u201cTechnically, I wasn\u2019t ready and I think emotionally I wasn\u2019t ready,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,159,81],"class_list":["post-10222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-colorado","tag-tarot","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-2ES","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11873,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11873","url_meta":{"origin":10222,"position":0},"title":"How Makers and Creators Might Price Their Work","author":"Chas S. 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