Meditations on The Unknown

Today’s draw was The Unknown. Haven’t heard of it? It’s unknown, ha ha! In all seriousness, The Unknown is one of the deck-specific cards that was in my new (I love it so much) 5-Cent Tarot.

I’ve known a lot of tarot readers, and I’ve known a lot of tarot collectors. That Venn diagram isn’t a perfect circle — many people collect decks and don’t read them, and many read from only one deck. I don’t fit in either of those categories. While I’ve had extremely long-standing relationships with decks, the sort of nomad lifestyle I’ve lived for my 45 years means that inevitably, decks have…