Christina Ricci's Cat Full of Spiders

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Christina Ricci is an American actress who sprang to fame as Wednesday Addams in the 1990s Addams Family movies. Since then she has moved beyond child stardom into success in both movies and television. She is known for playing dark and edgy roles, often in independent productions. Ricci discovered tarot at the relatively early age of 14 and became mesmerised by both the images and meanings of the cards. The Cat Full of Spiders Tarot is an amalgam of her fascination with tarot combined with her own unique vision of its potential. This deck is an imaginative mash up of many of the roles she has played – thus it becomes another by turns theatrical, nightmarish, literary, and fantastic. Ricci in one identity or another, her image carefully tailored to the meaning of the card, appears in every illustration. Over the years there have been several tarot decks that are the product of an artist or writer’s imaginary world – notably the Tarot of the Cat People, set in a sci-fi – fantasy world created and illustrated by Karen Kuykendall. The Cat Full of Spiders Tarot takes place in a rather Goth-type world with several locations that play a large part in both the suits of the Minor Arcana an

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