Radical Tarot: Queer the Cards, Liberate Your Practice, and Create the Future - Paperback

by Charlie Claire Burgess (Author)

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.

• 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

Author Biography

Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) is a queer and non-binary tarot reader, tarot teacher, deck creator, writer, artist, and witch. They are the creator and illustrator of the self-published Fifth Spirit Tarot, which has swiftly become one of the most beloved queer tarot decks available. They host The Word Witch podcast, which guides the listener through tarot from an inclusive perspective and features interviews with tarot readers, deck creators, witches, magicians, and healers who are creating magic from the margins. They are also a short story writer--their stories have appeared in literary journals and anthologies, and have received a Pushcart Prize Special Mention (2014) and notable mentions in two Best American anthologies.