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Ever have a day where you just can't contain yourself?
You can't focus on a simple task, but would rather be wild, dance around, laugh your belly off? Go for a walk through the woods?
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Moose, Yaks, Bighorn Sheep, and Deer, and a variety of Exotic Goats from all over:
All 78 card designs began as original pencil drawings, created ambidextrously by artist Cary Gray as part of his 365-day drawing challenge. Watch the video for that madness:
Prompts begin with an action prompt. Something to DO.
Second half includes a short poem, quote, or spoken prompt. Something to SPEAK.
This deck concept emerged from years of work by artist Cary Gray to integrate his wild side with his more civilized, communal side. (Hence, harnessing the wild power of two hands to create one drawing!!) It's not so simple to figure out what it means to live as an adult in this human world, while still honoring the inner child and inner wild!
In working for this vision, he hopes this deck will encourage you all to
Because what does inner peace and stability matter without a little colorful chaos? And how much fun is chaos if you can't ground into it and make it a deeply meditative experience?
Four kinds of wildlife were chosen for....well, duh, they're wild. But also, these animals are all horned animals! Mammalian herbivores to be exact, but let's move one. Horns on animals give one the idea of attacking, but often these are simply genetic displays of competence. In growing a nice rack (hehe) these animals show that they have been able to feed themselves and thus have the competence to feed potential offspring. Nice potential mate over there. Wonder if he wants to mate?
SO what does that mean??
Horns symbolize the chaos and wildness and protection one grows for themselves, which they harness for themselves and not AGAINST anyone unless strictly necessary.
The Back Story:
Artist and midwestern boy Cary Gray grew up distracted and wild. His backyard offered him the escape of the woods, of projects he could build with his hands, of adventure and solitude. As he raced into adulthood, he found it harder and harder to sit still.
ADHD and a head full of demons do not add up to a conventional life in the world.
So, after years of beating himself up for not "measuring up" to the standards of this highly organizes 9 to 5 world around him, he decided he would blaze his own trail through the human wild.
He took what he learned living in community – mutual respect, connection, communication, and combined it with his stories of adventure travel accrued from almost the entire decade of his 20s (Oh, how GOOD it felt to be lost in the world!) and threw in his lifelong tornado of internal emotional chaos, and sat down AS AN ARTIST and began creating.
In early 2021, he created Heart Forward, a double-sided Divination Deck with prompts to get you moving, thinking, and transforming. (This is available as an add-on for this campaign.) In this process, he lifted himself out of a post-break-up depression and a 10-year-long creative logjam. This project changed his life forever, and often changes those people who dive into the deck and its 200-page poetic guidebook full of resources.
In late 2021, he created, in collaboration with Cat Rose, PussyCat Tarot. He created the concept and design, and Cat contributed her short poems to the backs of the cards. A theme of double-sided decks was emerging! This time, the deck contained an all-ages matching game on reverse, so that "cool tarot-moms" can play with their kids!
All in all, these double-sided decks are meant to be an entry point for anyone, regardless of knowledge of the tarot. Pick up a card, flip it over, read it, grow. No need to do a whole spread. Equally so, a seasoned reader can create a spread and only afterwards, add in the "magical flip" to reveal what the reverse sides offer! Find your personal depth!
Card Size: Tarot Size 2.75" x 4.75" (70mm x 121mm)
