From Spotted in the Wild:

A Fool meets The Moon in this illustration from Puck, 1883.

We discuss the world of Tarot and other high weirdness in this rather extensive interview.

"Amma took a stack of what looked like tarot cards out of her purse, but the images on the cards weren't right. They weren't tarot cards—these were something else. She arranged them on the table carefully, re-creating a spread. ... Amma dropped the last card. 'There it is. ... The Angry Queen. The Unbalanced Scale. The Child of Darkness. The Storm. The Sacrifice. The Split Twins. The Bleeding Blade. The Fractured Soul." —Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Chaos (2011)

[See our daily Tarot posts at the Spotted in the Wild blog.]

A Hierophant from Punch, 1865.

See our regular postings of Tarot imagery in the wild here.

This Tarot Death card is actually a political cartoon from The Canadian Magazine, 1905. See a larger version of the image over at our Spotted in the Wild blog.

"The cards of Fate had been dealt and they were anchored to the bed like a Tarot spread before her."
—Gianna Perada, Blood Life (2012)

The soothsaying of old and the truth-telling of today aren't so very different:

"The accuracy of polygraph tests depends heavily on the examiner, who must be skilled in the art of interpretation — like a tarot card reader." —Timothy Dumas, Fight of the Century (2012)

For more Tarot cards we spot in the wild, see us over at Typepad:

http://mysteryarts.typepad.com/magicwords/

It depends on those who pass
whether I am tomb or treasure.
—Paul Valéry

Fortune telling into the afterlife? See our post over at Abecedarian:

http://oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=7588