Tarot for Hip Witches

Antonella Platano, the artist this catalog credits on the milestone Gay Tarot, joins Laura Tuan for the Tarot for Hip Witches: contemporary witchery in the Italian register, Lo Scarabeo's house craft applied to the modern witch's actual world, fashionable, urban, practicing. The deck's era caught witchcraft's pop turn, the moment the craft became a lifestyle identity with aesthetics to match, and its hipness is thus documentary; this is what the newsstand witch looked like when it printed. Tuan's prolific esoteric authorship keeps the system beneath the style, and Platano's figures carry the same warm humanity her Gay Tarot made historic. Pop-witch decks age into period pieces faster than solemn ones, which is their charm; the catalog's witchcraft shelf runs from Hexen's theory to this deck's street level. It suits witches of the fashionable practice, Platano's admirers crossing over, Italian pop-esoterica collectors, and historians of the craft's image. The hip, as always, dates; the witches, as always, continue.