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

Radical Tarot is a dynamic re-envisioning of the tarot that explores its queer,alive,and non-hierarchical archetypes,using imagery and personal stories to unlock personal truths and promote social justice.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 26 September 2023
Publisher: Hay House UK Ltd

Radical Tarot is a transformative approach to the tarot that reimagines its imagery, archetypes, and meanings. It challenges traditional beliefs and societal conditioning, revealing personal truths and unlocking the potential for personal growth. The tarot is queer, the archetypes are alive, and it does not predict the future; it creates it.

Radical Tarot meets the tarot in a space of evolution, deconstruction, and creation. It uses the historical and common meanings of the cards as a launchpad for digging into limiting beliefs and societal conditioning, unlocking the personal truths beneath.

The Fools Journey is re-envisioned as a journey to non-binary thinking, gender essentialism is ousted from the Major Arcana, and the Court Cards are reframed through a non-hierarchical, anti-capitalist, and intersectional lens. The archetypes are re-imagined in modern, progressive, and queered contexts.

For example:

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

Radical Tarot also touches on Charlie's personal story of how tarot helped them embrace their queerness, leave their marriage, and radically change their life. It speaks to their queer awakening and how tarot became a tool for social justice and conscious awareness of the world around them. Charlie's words and experience will help anyone who wishes to be closer to their own authentic selves.

Weight: 430g
Dimension: 230 x 152 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781788179027