Tori

@toristevens.art

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Mixed Media Artist ✨️ Card Maker Exploring oracles, stars, myth & symbol Junk journal + art journal #tarot #tarotnews #decanwalk

Vintage tarot-inspired illustration titled The Fall and The Rise. The top half, labeled “The Fall,” shows a dark night scene at the White House where a fallen fighter lies in a cage surrounded by ten swords while a crowd watches from behind the fence. The bottom half, labeled “The Rise,” depicts a bright sunny day outside the Obama Presidential Center, where people of all ages work together by planting trees, sharing books, creating art, and helping one another. The image contrasts violence and spectatorship with community, cooperation, and hope.
Mock newspaper front page titled Tarot in the News, Vol. 1, No. 5, dated June 3, 2026. The layout resembles a vintage broadsheet with the tagline “Symbolic Journalism for Strange Times.” A composite image on the left stacks the Rider-Waite-Smith Devil card above the Hierophant card, visually contrasting the two tarot archetypes. The headline reads, “Humanity Contemplates Deal With the Devil.” The article discusses Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical Magnifica Humanitas through the symbolism of the Devil and Hierophant cards, exploring themes of power, authority, human dignity, technological inevitability, commodification, hidden labor, and ethical responsibility. A banner along the bottom directs readers to toristevens.substack.com.
Black-and-white photo of a large civil rights protest crowd holding signs and raising hands. Overlaid text reads: “The Five of Pentacles this Taurus Season: exclusion, institutional distrust, and the struggle to feel represented.” “Moonlit Musings” and toristevens.substack.com appear near the bottom.
"Garbage" That was Donald Trump’s description of the latest Iranian proposal toward ending the war, and the tarot card that comes to my mind for me is the Knight of Swords. Fast-moving rhetoric. Escalation over diplomacy. Absolute certainty. Strategy through pressure, accusation, and dominance. The Knight of Swords charges first and negotiates later. The deeper decan echoes are interesting too: Four of Pentacles (Capricorn III): protecting power, controlling narratives, preserving authority at all costs. Five of Swords (Aquarius I): conflict-driven engagement, ideological combat, victory that risks alienation and further division. Very air-and-steel energy. A world running on nervous-system speed! Image: RWS tarot circa 1930s via sacred-texts.com
Black-and-white photo of a large civil rights protest crowd holding signs and raising hands. Overlaid text reads: “The Five of Pentacles this Taurus Season: exclusion, institutional distrust, and the struggle to feel represented.” “Moonlit Musings” and toristevens.substack.com appear near the bottom.
Now that even MAGA has decided that Trump might be the antichrist, it seems like the perfect time to share the devil card from my Defiant Tarot. A demon signs myriad heinous executive orders as his robotic congress smiles and nods. A lone woman sits across from the gigantic table representing womankind under direct attack from the patriarchy and misogyny around her. She remains unintimidated as she observes the goons knowing that their reckoning is right around the corner. 👹 This card is from my printable Defiant Tarot. Enjoy lots o’ joyful crafty fun even during this madness, and physical decks coming soon!
Rider Waite Smith (RWS) 6 of pentacles card, circa 1930s, shows a man standing and holding scales while offering coins to two figures kneeling below. My full reading: Its interesting that I got Hierophant a couple days ago, and 6 pents today, both earth and Taurus cards, (season begins next week). The figures are similarly organized on both cards with Hierophant defining values and structure while the 6 pents guy looks at how values show up in real exchanges. 6 pents is a moon sign and the waning crescent is in Aquarius, a sign of innovation. Speaking of which, there's lots going on in my astrology today with Mars, Neptune, saturn, sun and Chiron all piled up in Aries: pushing action but not fully organized yet - between vision and embodiment. I think there's encouragement here to make my work materially sustainable and working on reciprocity today.
Vintage-style illustration of two soft gray squirrels sitting close together beneath a hollow tree, gently holding and eating nuts.
Vintage magazine-style illustration of a man sitting in an armchair, smoking a pipe and listening to an early radio cabinet showing a broadcaster inside. A standing lamp glows beside him. Overlaid text reads: “stop scrolling, go outside, and breathe.” Blue decorative border and artist handle at the bottom.
Aries season is represented by The Emperor tarot card, which is ruled by the planet Mars. Themes for The Emperor: personal power, stability, responsibility, structure, authority, fire, 4 Themes for Mars: ambition, drive, lust, aggression The Decans (10° segments) of Aries: Aries I — 2 of Wands (Mars in Aries) — March 21–30 Aries II — 3 of Wands (Sun in Aries) — March 31–April 9 Aries III — 4 of Wands (Venus in Aries) — April 10–19 The journey from Aries I through Aries III moves through a narrative arc: planning → acting → arriving