ALTERED TAROT poems by r. tanksley & photography by k. hiatt

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The ALtered Tarot Deck & Guidebook

THE ALTERED TAROT DECK is a beautifully crafted tool. Every photograph, poem, and design was created with care and intention—entirely by humans, without the use of AI.

Embodying the archetypes of the Rider-Waite tradition, this deck follows the Fool’s Journey through the Major Arcana and delves into the everyday insights of the Minor Arcana. 

Each card captures the essence of its archetype with evocative, full-color photography, capturing light and shadow in stunning balance and paired with poetry, offering a richly layered and intuitive reading experience.

Printed with eco-friendly materials and packaged in a sturdy box, the deck includes:

  • 78 Full-Color Cards: Featuring rounded corners and a smooth, high-quality finish.
  • 188-Page Guidebook: Written by Tanksley, it includes an introduction, insights into the major and minor arcana, upright/reversed meanings, and poems for each card, along with full-color images of the cards.
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“r. tanksley has danced with the Devil and somehow managed to not only have survived it, but to have chronicled the odyssey in vivid, poetic detail… elegant poetry is paired beautifully with k. hiatt’s dreamily somber photography, together creating an experience that is chilling and transformational.” 
—ROBERT WYNIA, author of Night Walks: Poems and Lyrics

2022 | Altered Tarot: The End of Love asks readers to disentangle from the past and prepare for what is approaching.

r. tanksley’s deeply personal poems are set atop k. hiatt’s bold photography creating a work that exemplifies the duality inherently present in the world. This duality, an important aspect of tarot practice, manifests in the spaces between day and night, black and white, negative and positive—the spaces between raw emotion and spiritual familiarity.
 
Containing more than eighty affecting poems and photographs and organized into a 5-card tarot spread in four parts, this collection traverses the elements air, water, earth, and fire, and maps an unending journey of self-discovery. Present themes include loss, grief, heartache, trauma, womanhood, and finding power in actively healing.

We are humbled by the responses from readers. 
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2019 | r. tanksley and k. hiatt’s debut collection is a stunning synthesis of heart piercing poetry and captivating nature photography.

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