Tarot Deck Features Several Local Pagans as Cards

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By Maria Aquila
When first you look at the images on Helena Domenic Aislin's The Fellowship of the Fool tarot deck, you notice the vibrant colors, the imagery, the symbols. However, when you look a bit closer, when you look at the people in the cards, you might see some familiar faces. That's because each card in the deck is represents an actual person, including several from the local DC area.

Aislin is a Philadelphia-based artist and an Elder and High Priestess in the Assembly of the Sacred Wheel (ASW), a Wiccan-tradition with 10 covens in the Mid-Atlantic region, including two in the DC/Maryland area. She started the deck several years ago, photographing people at events and painting the card images.

Micheal Smith as
Death

"There were certain people I knew I wanted to represent specific cards. I knew I wanted Ivo Domingquez as The Elder, and Micheal Smith as Death," said Aislin, "while other cards emerged during the process, the person just fit the energy of a certain card, or the way a person was posed fit the card's meaning."

Over the course of the last few years she collected images at Assembly events, gathering, festivals, and photo shoots, such as the one Eric "Fritter" Riley organized with the DC Radical faeries. Other notable Pagans include Katrina Messenger of Reflections Mystery School and Connect DC, Eridanus Kummerow, and drum mage Tigre Cruz. The deck also includes Pagan authors, T.Thorn Coyle and Ivo Dominguez, Jr.

Fritter as
Sacrifice

The deck was also the first deck to be released as an iPhoneand iPad app, by Silver Spring, MD-based app development company, The Fool’s Dog. "I'm really excited about the iPhone app, because it allows people to engage in tarot in a different way, and opens up tarot to people who wouldn't normally pick up a tarot deck."

The first edition of the deck was printed last fall. Currently, Aislin is planning a second printing of the deck and is raising funds via an IndieGoGo campaign.


More information on the deck is available at: http://fellowshipofthefool.blogspot.com/

Katrina Messenger
as the Ace of Pentacles

Tigre Cruz as the
Journeyman of Pentacles

Eridanus Kummerow as the
Ace of Cups

Ivo Dominguez, Jr.
as The Elder

Ellis as the Nine of Cups

Sylvan as Enlightenment

Baba Niko as the
Seven of Pentacles

T. Thorn Coyle as the
Ace of Swords