Tarot of the Trunk

You find an old, battered steamer trunk.

It’s full of a dizzying array of objects: drawings and paintings, but also posters and postcards and books and tapestries and old advertisements. There’s a wooden boat, a pair of barbershop poles, a cup, a torn valentine, a suit of armor. A cloud.

An insight settles over you: these are not arbitrary objects. Each has a correspondence. You can read them.

This is a tarot deck.

Tarot of the Trunk is a mismatched tarot deck designed as a starting point for those interested in magpie tarot (mismatched tarot decks), but is also a great addition to any tarot collection. It can be read as a standard 78-card tarot deck, but since each card back is unique, you can swap in cards from other tarot or oracle decks to customize your trunk collection.

The deck comes in a sturdy cardboard trunk that can hold approximately 130 cards, so there’s plenty of room to expand.

Which you might need to do, because there are three expansions for Tarot of the Trunk: The Gooseberry Set, Suited Deaths and Other Oddities, and The Hidden Pocket.

What will you put in your trunk?