Tonight I am so excited to share with you Death and the Coffin, and debut the aspect of Eight of Pentacles Press that is possibly most dear to me: physical, magical writing. The essay is available as both a public post and in the mail as a zine.

Briefly explore a philosophy of divining about endings, through the lenses of Tarot, Lenormand, and Nature:

Starting from a place of death instead of a place of transformation does not need to fundamentally change the interpretive outcome of the card, but the acknowledgement of death can provide more divinatory clarity to what comes after it. What is dying? Why? What did it feed on to live? What is going to eat it now?

Read the essay in full on Eight of Pentacles, and order yourself a wee copy from my Ko-fi shop. The physical version unfolds to reveal a zine-exclusive spread to assist you in interpreting the Death card in any Tarot reading.

Happy June, my friends! I’m coming to you from a thunderstorm-soaked Merrimack Valley.

It’s been a long time! I have recently moved my Substack subscribers to my new email provider, Buttondown. I’d love to have you stick along for the ride.

Today I am relaunching eightofpentacles.com, and with it, a project that has been near and dear to my heart for many months: Eight of Pentacles Press. With more details to come soon, my availability will open in mid-July to create beautiful work for lovers, artists, mystics, and makers. In addition to branding and communication design, I have some new divination-related work, fresh from the Press, that I can’t wait to share with you later this month.

My three favorite essays from my former website and Substack blog are available for you in the meantime: