Creative tarot

Cover artwork for <n>Diego Krause</n>'s <n>Narrative EP</n>, released on the <n>FORAX</n> label.

<n>The Colony: Mushroom - Cogumelos</n> by photographer <n>Beto Frota</n>.

A still from <n>Ingmar Bergman</n>'s 1966 film <n>Persona</n>, featuring <n>Bibi Andersson</n> and <n>Liv Ullmann</n>.

<n>Strength Tarot Card</n>, a collage by <n>Heather Heininge</n> using <n>Briton Rivière</n>'s 1880 painting <n>Una and the Lion</n>.

A card from the <n>Etteilla Tarot</n> deck, designed by French occultist <n>Etteilla</n>.

Things get more refined as you make mistakes. I’ve had a chance to make a lot of mistakes. Your aesthetics get better as you make mistakes. But the real big thing is: if you’re going to make something, it doesn’t take any more energy—and rarely does it take more money—to make it really great. All it takes is a little more time. And a willingness to do so, a willingness to persevere until it’s really great.

– Steve Jobs

Illustration by <n>Ramon Gonzalez Teja</n>, ca. 1980s.

A vintage illustration of <n>Three Skeleton Keys</n>.

Fungitures, a furniture concept by artist <n>PAUL OCTAVIOUS</n>.

<n>Rise and Shine</n>, an <n>abstract</n> light photograph by <n>David Garland</n>.

A depiction of <n>The Magician Tarot Card</n> by <n>runa</n>.

## Energy is motion. Motion is time. Time is life. Life is energy.

Cycles are the answer to everything. If the universe were static, meaning all mass was suspended in position, there would be no life, time, or stars. Just dead rocks stuck indefinitely.

The heat from the stars created time. It set the planets in motion creating life and death as we know it. A planet dies much like we do: when its orbital trajectory flies too close to the sun. As cycles pass the planet ages and its orbital track becomes less viable until it gets eaten by its creator; becoming fertilizer. The same happens to us on the micro-scale. Our molecules eventually stop orbiting efficiently and the earth reclaims us.

What is this strange almost goo-like muck of a force we call gravity that gives us a window of healthy cycles before the system reaches its limit? And where did all the initial energy come from?

The <n>Pangaia</n> font, designed by <n>Sam Salminen</n> for <n>Pangram Pangram Foundry</n>.

A collection of painted cards by artist <n>Robert Coutelas</n> from 1976-1979.

An <n>Art Deco</n> style illustration, <n>The Lovers Card</n>, by <n>Mike Willcox</n>.

<n>Oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus)</n> growing in <n>Mount Rainier National Park</n>.

<n>Hollow Earth Transmission, Issue One</n> by visual artist <n>Niall Greaves</n> for <n>Carhartt WIP</n> magazine.

A depiction of Libra from the <n>Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry</n>, created between 1412–1416.

<n>Tarot Card Matchbox</n> by <n>shopwickedgarden</n>.

<n>Another Diamond Day</n> by photographer <n>David Garland</n>.

Digital artwork by <n>Elizabeth Wall</n>, 2010.

<n>Death, Key 13</n> from the <n>Builders of the Adytum Tarot Deck</n>, illustrated by <n>Jessie Burns Parke</n>.

Artwork by <n>Arnau Pi</n> for <n>Mioclono</n>'s debut album <n>Cluster I</n> (2023).

A close-up of <n>White Oyster Mushroom</n> gills.

Your mind is your only prison. You are free by choice and captive by belief. It's all decision. Unlearn what you've been taught.

\- Malanda

Add through subtraction.

Burnout often manifests itself as stagnancy. When you do too much you kneecap your mental and creative capacity.

Audit your commitments and aggressively cut out the things from your life that are siphoning your energy.

"New goals don't deliver new results. New lifestyles do. And a lifestyle is a process, not an outcome. For this reason, all of your energy should go into building better habits, not chasing better results."

Illustration by <n>Javier Jaén</n> for <n>The New York Times Magazine</n>.