Tarot of the Sidhe - The Tower

This week we're going to look at The Tower from the Tarot of the Sidhe.  It actually decided to pop out at me while I was shuffling and it did come up in this week's tarot reading so I figure it has something it really wants to say, so this is a good one to work with this week!

Tarot of the Sidhe - Dancer Eight

The card that I pulled for this Tarot of the Sidhe post is Dancer Eight.  In the deck the suits have different names than those that we are more traditionally familiar with from the RWS system.  Here the Dancers are representative of the element of water and can be equated to the Cups suit in more traditional decks.  Emily Carding talks about the need for a time of gestation once the Sidhe have given us inspiration and given us the gift of creativity.  We need to develop an emotional connection to this inspiration and give it time to grow within otherwise anything that comes from it can turn out to be superficial and lacking the true spirit and energy that it deserves.  She offers up the idea that dancing is one of the purest expressions of emotion and emotional connection since it is somewhat of a universal language that transcends words and the trappings of culture.  I think the Dancers are a wonderful representation of the Cups suit.

Tarot of the Sidhe - Disccusion Introduction

Welcome to the first Tarot of the Sidhe posting!  I'm so excited to start this series of posts and I hope to have some of you joining in, sharing your thoughts on the cards as we go along so that we can all share in learning about this amazing deck!  


In case you haven't noticed I have totally fallen in love with this deck.  It's a deck that I had been thinking of getting for some time but after reading a review of it on Bonnie Cehovet's blog I decided to finally order it.  What a brilliant deck!  As someone who works a great deal with the world of the Fay and who is mostly connected to working within the Celtic world, this deck spoke quite strongly to me on that level, but from a purely artistic standpoint it's colorful and vibrant and different.  Some of the visual interpretations that Emily Carding worked with for this deck are truly refreshing (particularly her Warrior Ten/Ten of Swords).  Truly a fabulous deck all around.