Housewives
Retro-styled novelty deck with 1950s domestic imagery in recipe box packaging.
by Paul Kepple · Quirk Books Deck Type: Tarot Deck Cards: 78 Major Arcana: 22 Minor Arcana: 56 The Fool is 0 Strength is 8 Justice is 11 Rating: stars out of five Where to · 2004
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The Housewives Tarot comes in as a mock recipe box, with 78 cards. It's a domestic divination deck, a light hearted gift set for the Tarot beginner or a novelty deck for the experienced. The art work is from the fifties style, and makes it a must for the collector. According to the booklet, the Housewives Tarot was introduced by Marlene Louise Wetherbee in the early 1950s. She was a happy little homemaker who had a devoted husband, obedient children and a spotless home. She was always in fashion, made the best recipes, and had a fare of womens intuition. (I suspect she also had a strand of real pearls.) One day while playing bridge with some of the neighborhood gals, Marlene decided it was the right time to reveal the secrets of her success. She removed a mysterious Tarot deck from her fashionable pocketbook. Oh my every one was appalled that Marlene would dare bring such an item to a bridge party. But she knew that this kind of resistance was to be expected. As stories go, Marlene laughed and asked. Hasn't anyone wondered how I can keep my kitchen spotless? Or how I make a perfect cake every time? Marlene supposedly became known as the mystical Madame Marlena and word spread far a
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