Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Josephine Winter, author of the new Fire Magic.
My first deck of tarot cards was a gift from a friend when I was a mouthy teenage mall-goth with a cheap pentacle necklace and a thirst for Occult Secrets™. It was Juliet Shaman-Burke's Mythic Tarot, which uses symbolism from ancient Greek myths such as Jason and the Argonauts, Persephone in the underworld, and others; the first edition images, not the too-bright cartoony ones that came out with later editions. It's still among my favourite decks today.
The suit of wands in the tarot is usually associated with the element of fire, as it represents primal forces,