Independently
created
Please note the decks on this site are not mass-produced they are printed in small batches and take 2-3 weeks to ship. In addition to illustrating the decks and writing the guidebooks, I also print each bag the decks go in by hand and pack each order with care for shipping. No conveyor belts and robots here. It's just me, working out of my garage, with the occasional company of my kiddo, a couple dogs, a cat, some foxes, a handful of noisy ravens, and a wandering deer here and there. I like to think that with each order I take into town for shipping that I am sending along a little bit of what makes this place so magical.
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Symbolically Speaking was created as a language. Each card represents a piece of the human experience — action, emotion, instinct, memory, choice, loss, love, repair, and everything in between. When the cards are placed together, they form sentences. A story unfolds. Meaning emerges not from a single symbol, but from the relationship between them.
Hello from San Juan Island!
I am MJ. You may know me from one of my mass-produced decks such as The Crow Tarot or The Guardian of the Night Tarot.
This site is dedicated to my independently published work.
I create each illustration by hand on a Wacom tablet, layering my own photos, drawn elements, and digitally crafted pieces into a single image. Some cards include more than a hundred components! Every feather, shadow, shell, and scrap of texture; it all comes together to build the world that card needs.
My inspiration comes from where I live: a mountaintop on a small Pacific Northwest island, surrounded by trees, sea, foxes, ravens, and skies that shift through every mood imaginable. With whales offshore and eagles overhead, it is pretty easy to stay creatively charged.