Anyway, Barbara is a mucky muck at Llewellyn. She's THE gatekeeper if you want a tarot product published by Llewellyn. If she doesn't think an idea has legs, it doesn't go up to the Powers That Be for approval. She would never tell you this, but she's a goddess in the tarot world. She's also a fashion maven, quite beautiful and admirably slim despite her love of buttered popcorn and cupcakes. AND she likes my deck!!! Enough that she blogs about it!!!
Now a skeptic would say "of course she blogs about it, doofus. She's paid to. She HAS to promote your product and act excited about it." But that's not the way it works at Llewellyn. Certainly she would never deride anything she brought to the market. But she only has to use it and like it if she uses it and likes it. And when I thanked her for using my deck in her blog, she said, "Tierney, I'm going to be using it a lot. Because it's awesome and I can use it with any deck."
So she's a fan. And she's already contributed content to this site in the form of spreads and tips. And here's one more spread she created. You can read all about it in her blog. Basically she asked why she was being so stubborn about changes happening in her life. She chose three cards at random from her Deck of 1000 Spreads and got this spread (that's her Steampunk Tarot she's using):
I know it seems like an odd trio of spread positions to answer that question, but if you read her blog, you'll see it did that and more. She felt it brought up a lot of personal stuff and was proof that, "tarot rocks and the Deck of 1000 Spreads rocks right along with it. It helps me ask the questions that need to be asked, even if I don't consciously know what they are...until the cards are revealed." (I expanded on this thought a little here.)
Barbara has featured the Deck of 1000 Spreads a few times in her blog. You can see three other posts here, here and here.
