Blessed Mabon to all of you Kittenz in the Northern Hemisphere! Happy Spring to all of you down South! If you’ve stumbled onto this page and don’t know what I’m talking about, Mabon is a holiday celebrated by many Pagans honoring the beginning of...
My most nerdy grammar friends argue about whether it’s spelled Judgment or JudgEment. Actually, they’re both true. Spell-check prefers Judgment, but the Tarot artists of the early 20th century seemed to prefer Judgement (with an “e”). Just like...
via GIPHY My autumn escalated quickly! I’m teaching in DC, MD, MI, MN, NJ, NYC, and online!!! If you’re anywhere in the NE area, please come and see me! We have so much Tarot to talk and Brigid to explore. Check it out and see if I’ll be where...
Now that the first draft of the novel is complete and I’m waiting on the imminent arrival of Tarot for One, I guess it’s time to get back to blogging! If I waited for inspiration to strike every single time I need to write about anything (blog or not),...
It’s necessary. Oh, and p.s.: guess who finished the first draft of her novel this morning????? I’ll give you three guesses. 92,000 words. Don’t worry–it will be quite some time before I inflict it on you. In the meantime, I’m happy to...
A glimpse of my next few months…. via GIPHY I’ve just added Crystal Fox in Laurel, MD and the Boston Tea Room in Detroit, MI to my workshop line-up! Stay tuned for dates and deets! And now, I’m off to Harvest Gathering in Orange, CT. If you’re...
When your book gets published, you give the editors your completed manuscript and wait-wait-wait for them to return it with their edits. When they do, you get to make all kinds of changes. For me, that process is like this: Then….the book goes back to your...
Hey!!!! Look!!!!! It’s Winona Ryder playing me in the new Netflix horror series: 3rd Round Of Edits On Courtney’s New Book. via GIPHY If writing is where you dig deep into the tombs of your creative potential, dig it all up, and throw it at the...
Six years ago, when I started working on Tarot of the Boroughs, I heard rumor of another Tarot project with a very similar principle: The Urban Tarot. I was immediately impressed with the artwork. My deck was tough enough to do with photography (and I wasn’t even the...
Ah…when the scrappy little up-starts get a mention by the big dudes! In 2010 the deck I produced and designed, Tarot of the Boroughs: a modern Tarot deck based in New York City featuring original photography by George Courtney, was released! Today, it received a...
