Star Spinner
Comic-artist creation blending fairytales, myths, and children's stories into sweet tarot.
by Trung Le Nguyen · 2020
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The record
The Star Spinner Tarot is an attractive, one would almost say pretty tarot from comic artist Trungle. Using elements from children's stories and picture books, fairytales, myths and legends the Star Spinner Tarot is a sweet, optimistic deck which will appeal to both the young and the young at heart. One of the driving concepts behind this deck is the removal of Orientalist symbolism from tarot imagery. Western occult traditions have borrowed, some might even say misappropriated, symbolism and imagery from Oriental and Middle Eastern art, philosophy, and wisdom. The overall effect was to exoticise Eastern culture without understanding its history and context, and to plunder what is perceived as mysterious elements without care for the societies and cultures from which they came. In other words cultural imperialism crept into tarot imagery. Artist Trungle has replaced Orientalist details with images drawn from a more European historical and cultural background. This is a fully illustrated 81 card tarot It has 25 Major Arcana and 56 Minor Arcana cards. Two cards in the major Arcana have been renamed, although the concept behind them remains the same Strength is retitled Fortitude,
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