Hello again, everyone, I hope March is going well for y’all so far!
Today I’ve got for you the full suit of Pentacles from the Magic Pantry Tarot—which, if you didn’t see my announcement a while back on Instagram, I finished the card art for! FINALLY! HOORAY!
This also means that I finally have a better estimate of when the deck will be available: I’m aiming to have the Kickstarter go live on May 23, 2024. Whoo!!
To keep things more manageable, this print run will be smaller than usual. There is a possibility it will sell out during the campaign, in which case it won’t be back for at least a year! I’ll be writing a longer post later about why this is and the changes I’m making to how I do business and release decks going forward. Also, of course, more info and photos about the actual deck and packaging specifications.
Now, onto today’s art reveal, the Pentacles:
So far this deck has focused heavily on single ingredients, but for this suit I went ahead and used things you have to make—bread, noodles, pastry, cake—for the court cards, because, to be honest, it was getting difficult to figure out how to visually differentiate a bunch of grains and tubers in my art style. A LOT of things look like wheat or sweet potatoes!! But considering how foundational bread, noodles, pastry, and cake are to a vast number of dishes and meals across the globe, I think it works out well.
And yes—that is older Aeronwy and June from The Thread That Binds in the pastry card (formerly the Blueberry card when this was still an oracle deck), because I can put my characters wherever I want for my own delight.
Thank you all SO MUCH for all of the encouragement and support you’ve shown me during the last, um, three years I’ve been working on this deck! More if you count the old simple square version I shared on Patreon back when I had one! I haven’t put out a brand new deck since 2020, if you can believe that.
It’s been a huge struggle due to more than one type of burnout, and I’d like to write about that experience more in depth sometime in the near future, because I think it’s important to talk about the reality of being a small business creative or any sort of creative sharing your work in this day and age. Especially a disabled one.
Hope a beautiful spring is coming to your neck of the woods in the Northern Hemisphere, and a lovely fall if you’re in the South! <3 Can’t wait to get this deck out to all of you soon :).