Fifth Spirit Tarot

Burgess, Charlie Claire.  Fifth Spirit Tarot: A 78-Card Deck and Guidebook. Carlsbad, California: Hay House, 2022.

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Expanding the traditional tarot archetypes beyond the gender binary, this deck re-imagines the cards from a queer and inclusive perspective.  The more we work with Tarot, the more we realize that binaries don't exist and everything is fluid-gender, including time.  We come to realize that we're all creatures made of earth and air, fire and water, all four elements bound together by the fifth element: spirit. 

Fifth Spirit Tarot goes beyond the gender binary, queering the archetypes with 78 beautifully illustrated and hand-lettered cards by queer and non-binary tarot reader, teacher, and writer Charlie Claire Burgess.

The artwork lovingly features folks of different races, body shapes, abilities, ages, and gender expressions. Instead of renaming the cards for gender-neutrality, Fifth Spirit seeks to challenge the gender binary and expand notions of gender through the juxtaposition of traditional title and queered imagery.  In Tarot as in life, a nonbinary femme can be King, a cisgender man can be Queen, and everyone in between can defy or expand or ecstatically embody any or no gender that they wish.

Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) is a queer and non-binary tarot reader, tarot teacher, deck creator, writer, artist, and witch.  They host The Word Witch podcast, which guides the listener through tarot from an inclusive perspective and features interviews with tarot readers, deck creators, witches, magicians, and healers who are creating magic from the margins.   

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