If you haven’t heard already, Light Grey Art Lab is at it again with their new exhibition Tarot, Mystics, and The Occult. The show opens this Friday, Oct. 26th (just in time for Halloween fun).

78 artists have joined forces to create an original tarot deck based off of the classic Rider-Waite tarot deck. If it wasn’t cool enough, each artist had their tarot card drawn at random – a small pre-show fortune perhaps?

The card that was chosen for me was the Nine of Swords. Although not a very positive card, it’s one that is really relatable for us worry-wart artist types. Check out my rendition below. You can also purchase the full deck from the LGAL shop.

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The Nine of Swords:

This card has a lot to do with someone’s mind and their doubts and pain. The card shows a person, most often a woman, lying down or sitting up but they are/ were sleeping. When this card is reversed it can be about real or imagined doubts or pain, just as dreams can be about real or imagined parts of our life. Most often the person on the card is on a bridge symbolizing a person between the worlds of dreaming and reality or also the worlds of life and death.

Above the person is their fears, hanging above them in an airy or dreamy way, this can be represented through demons, devils or even a heavily agitated night sky. Often there are sharp objects such as swords or knives, representing that a persons fears may pierce or stab through them. The swords could also mean that they are there to help the person cut through their own difficulties.