Boadicea's Tarot of Earthly Delights

Tarot as it might have been imagined by Hieronymus Bosch — if Bosch had also been a tarot scholar with a razor-sharp wit and a deep affection for cephalopods.

Boadicea's Tarot of Earthly Delights is one of the most genuinely original decks in contemporary tarot: 80 cards of collaged fine art drawn from Western antiquity through the Golden Age, assembled by Caroline Kenner and Paula Millet into an incandescent, mischievous, and profoundly insightful tarot system. The deck nods toward the Rider-Waite-Smith while utterly refusing to be contained by it, weaving together Renaissance portraiture, Flemish still life, Dutch Golden Age masters, and baroque natural history illustration into something that is simultaneously ancient and wildly alive.

The minor suits alone tell you everything you need to know about this deck: Combustion, Tentacles, Aether, and Fungi. Squid, octopi, mushrooms, nudibranch, and narwhals appear in starring roles. The deck includes two additional unique cards: the Perspicacious Platypus and Boadicea the Queen — bringing the total to 80 cards of glorious, erudite, beautiful chaos.

The comprehensive 216-page color guidebook is as distinctive as the deck — in-depth card meanings, expert insight on queries and spreads, and the kind of tarot scholarship that makes you want to sit with it for an afternoon.

What's Included:

• 80 art cards — RWS-inspired collage of fine art from antiquity through the Golden Age
• 216-page comprehensive full-color guidebook
• Suits: Combustion, Tentacles, Aether, and Fungi
• Bonus cards: Perspicacious Platypus + Boadicea the Queen
• Author: Caroline Kenner | Artist & Deck Creator: Paula Millet | Publisher: REDFeather | ISBN: 9780764369087

Why This Deck:

• Genuinely original — unlike anything else in contemporary tarot, in concept and execution
• Fine art collage technique — Western antiquity through Golden Age masters, assembled with wit and visual intelligence
• Razor-sharp wit meets deep tarot scholarship — the guidebook is a genuine pleasure
• Bosch-inspired surrealist energy — lush, strange, beautiful, and teeming with life
• RWS-grounded — accessible system beneath the glorious eccentricity
• 216-page full-color guidebook — one of the most comprehensive included with any deck

For lovers of fine art, natural history illustration, surrealism, Hieronymus Bosch, cephalopods, mushrooms, tarot scholars who want something genuinely new, and anyone who has ever felt that tarot needed more narwhals.