I’m so relieved and grateful to have consistent work and income, but it’s definitely been a struggle to make time for my personal work,” she admits.

The cards also contain planetary and zodiac symbols as well as those of the four elements, useful for discovering astrological answers. Milo Manara is an Italian artist and is considered one of the top artists working in European comics. Its imagery does contain images of the human form, similar to the Casanova Tarot, but it doesn't go to extremes.

I felt incredibly lucky, obviously, but it did get overwhelming with my day job as an in-house illustrator at a marketing agency,” Sofie explains. I found that because so many companies were unable to schedule photoshoots, they were reaching out to illustrators instead and my workload more than doubled almost overnight. The timeless landscape of the Sage Woman crosses the span of energy and time, and the forgotten Woman Sage is still quietly waiting within all women. It is an interesting solution to the usual 3 male/1 female court card display, or the 2 female/2 male solution.

If some readers do not like nudity in their decks, I fully respect that, but it may be advisable to skip this thread. Vulnerability, when expressed in a safe relationship or relationships, allows us to show up as purely ourselves. The grounded confidence of The Empress represents a deep-seated undertsanding of one's body as the root of their sexuality. I just got the Tarot Erotica and noticed some of the cards in that deck are very similar to the few cards I've managed to find online of the Amerigo deck.

It's also important to acknowledge that tarot, especially the Rider-Waite-Smith system that I'll be working with in this post, has a visually white and heteronormative focus. As for this year, Sofie’s listed off clients such as Nike, Adidas, Apple, Royal Mail, Facebook, and The New York Times, as well as building her own room at the interactive art experience Meow Wolf Denver. Even the former might have redeeming features - someone may resonate with the images so much that they give good readings with it.

The Minor Arcana suits are named according to the element associated with each suit: fire, water, air, and earth. To me it's just a bunch of prettiness and gorgeousness and a handful of explicitly erotic offerings. So at first I was a little worried about the potential limitations of that, but when that option is taken out you have to really focus on creating eroticism with gesture and expression, which can be so much more evocative. Looking at the cards as archetypal energies and not literal or limiting representations of human expression is helpful in navigating these shortcomings.

The imagery across the cards is also deliberately repetitive, so that the subtle cues of posture and body language of the couple are more obvious. For example, the phallic symbolism on the Ace of Wands doesn't exclusively apply to phallus-havers or lovers. The illustrations are very graphic; viewing of the samples is restricted to persons 18 years of age and above.