Creating the Enchanted Tarot
Hi guys
I have been asked to share a card every month from my new deck – The Tarot of Enchanted Dreams – which I self-published a couple of months ago. The deck has been picked up by a tarot publisher and will now be available to the mass market. At this present moment in time I don’t know when it will be out – I just sent all the images, text etc to the publisher this week. Am hoping next year, but I will keep everyone posted on here!
So, just a wee bit about me before I begin with the card of this month. My name is Yasmeen Westwood I live in West Sussex, with my husband and twoyearoldmonkey (I mean our son, Arran).
I always thought I was not an “artist”, as I could not draw or paint to save my life. But what I can do is to play around on Photoshop and make ordinary pictures look magical. I had not meant to create a tarot deck – can you believe it! I had been teaching myself photoshop techniques from YouTube, when I started creating images. At that time, I was suffering from severe post natal depression and creating images became a kind of therapy. I was able to put a lot of what I was feeling, or wanted to feel into the images. As I started creating the images, a deck began to form and I loved every single second of it. I spent many an hour working on the deck, getting the laptop out as soon as our wee boy was asleep.
I do hope you like it and the cards are MY interpretation of the tarot. I see the world as enchanting again and this deck hopefully will give you a glimpse of my magical world. Oh, and you may notice almost every card has a Full Moon – yep, I love and adore full moons and they affect me emotionally, plus I was born on a Full Moon!
So that’s a little bit about me.
Now, I was thinking of what card to look at this month and as its my birthday on the 23rd October, what better card than to begin with my Tarot Birth Card. You may not know but we all have a pair of tarot cards which correspond with our birth date. They are the cards that have the most influence on you throughout your life.
Bridget at Biddy Tarot tells you how to calculate them and the pairings, so my Birth Card is card number 7 – The Chariot. You can read about it here: Enchanted Tarot: 7 The Chariot (from the 4th Sunday this month)
Birth cards come in pairs so my other card is The Tower…. Yikes! More about that on the 4th Sunday of next month!
In the meantime, you can follow me on Instagram at yasmeen_westwood_art or check out my website www.yasmeenwestwood.com – you can add yourself to the waiting list for the deck if you are interested.
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