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A sample of
Tarot Cards
written in ASL in SignWriting

by
Charles Butler & Michelle Owings-Christian

Charles Butler
chazzer3@erols.com

Posted
May 24, 1999

The Tarot is an ancient system of divination, used to read the current
patterns in your life, like a good doctor reading symptoms and proposing
a solution. They are not "predictive" but "prescriptive". Humans think
in patterns and having "key words", "pictures", or "themes" helps us to
sort out what is going in our life.

The Sign Tarot has five suits. Feelings, Thoughts, Dreams, Foundations,
and Spirit. The suit pictured below is Thoughts. There are 20 cards,
each with a different action, emotion, or person associated with
"thought". Use them as key words to tell yourself a story and see what
you come up with. This deck is in ASL, and would have to be adjusted
for any other Signed Language.

We compare them to the Navajo "talking blankets" and so call them the
Sign Tarot, a deck of Talking Cards.

For more information, and the rest of the deck, contact:

Charles Butler
chazzer3@erols.com

 

Copyright © 1999 by Charles Butler & Michelle Owings-Christian

For further information
about these Tarot Cards, contact:

Charles Butler
chazzer3@erols.com

Other literature written in SignWriting
by Charles Butler


Clythe

A story written in American Sign Language


Deep Peace, An Irish Blessing
A story written in American Sign Language



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