Golden Moth Illumination Deck

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I’ve been a fan of Aijung Kim’s art­work for a few years now — since I first pur­chased a copy of her zine, We Carry Each Other (I later pur­chased another copy to gift to my mother — it affected me so pro­foundly). So I was thrilled when she sent a let­ter to her mail­ing list about a div­ina­tion deck that she had cre­ated and started a Kick­starter cam­paign for. I didn’t even hes­i­tate in sup­port­ing the project and a few weeks ago I received my backer’s award — a copy of the fin­ished deck. The deck is so spe­cial. You real­ize this as soon as you have the pack­age in your hands. Kim sent a copy of the cards in a sturdy tuck-box, the hand­book that accom­pa­nies the cards, a spread­sheet poster, a post­card of her work, a doo­dle and her busi­ness card to her back­ers. My copy is 83/300. Yes, there are only 300 copies of this. Go get one now. Kim illus­trated 68 cards, but includes seven blank cards (with encour­age­ment to draw your own sym­bols). The print­ing is two-color, blue and gold, and the illus­tra­tions are sim­ple line-style draw­ings. The cards are approx­i­mately bridge sized and the stock is a thick, uncoated card-stock. You could rif­fle shuf­fle, but I’m not

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