But, in 2022, this Late Middle Age practice has become as commonplace as waking up and checking your Co-Star horoscope app.

A modern tarot deck may strike you as an oxymoron according to Robert Place in The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination, the cards developed in northern Italy in the early fifteenth century. This deck is just what you're spooky season has been missing.

Its shortcoming is the mostly thin figures with little body-size variation to be found, which is disappointing and unfortunately in-keeping with normative ideas of fantasy figures as thin and petite.Calling all witches (whether costumed for the big spooky holiday or otherwise). This is a queer deck, intentionally diverse, and a much needed reset to often whitewashed cis-het fantasy imagery. All the Kings are animals, which I found intriguing (a raven king for the wands, a rabbit for the coins, a dragon for the chalices, and a finch or robin-like bird for the swords). Other than the gorgeous variation in The Lovers cards, the names of the cards are familiar with the suits read as Chalices, Coins, Wands, and Swords- each with their own theme. In the guidebook, Trungles is intentional about noting the Asian and African origins of the Tarot and ensuing misappropriation powered by Imperialism that brought the tarot to Europe and gave us the familiar images we now consider ‘traditional’.

There’s a good chunk of skin showing in the deck, which Trungles uses to distort expectations of what sex and gender look like in the body. In amongst the mermaids, angels, and fairies, the Star Spinner Tarot is reflective of the Rider-Waite Smith tradition but not tethered to it the images are a breath of fresh air. The art in this deck is beautiful, bold, unendingly vibrant, which Trungles somehow manages to maintain in even the cards with a darker palette.

Star spinner tarot cards