New Woman

Nicole Onslow's New Woman Tarot enters the record as twenty-two majors of contemporary feminist reframing: the trumps reread through modern feminine perspective and power, the New Woman of the title claiming tarot's offices for herself. The record is thin, but the format fits the project; revisionist decks concentrate on the majors because that is where the tradition keeps its thrones, and reassigning them is the fastest structural argument available. The deck belongs to the women-centered lineage this catalog tracks from the eighties round decks through the Crone's authority to the Fifth Spirit's degendered courts, one of the current's many small independent statements, most under-documented, together constituting the movement's actual breadth beyond its famous landmarks. It suits collectors of feminist tarot's fuller archive, majors-only readers, students of the revision tradition's grassroots layer, and anyone who understands that movements are mostly made of entries like this one. The landmarks have their own well-lit notes; the archive honors the ranks.