The Ace of Wands Is Here: A New Chapter for Organic Tarot

There is something especially fitting about sharing the Ace of Wands with you as the next update in the making of Organic Tarot. This card is about beginnings that arrive with a spark. An idea. An impulse. That little internal voice that says, What if I tried this? What if I made it? What if I actually followed this thing all the way through? In so many ways, that is exactly how Organic Tarot came into being.

As I continue building this deck card by card, I am realizing that I don’t want to rush past the physical process of making it. Every piece is being constructed slowly through photography, collage, cutting, arranging, rearranging, removing, and allowing myself to respond to what appears in front of me. The Ace of Wands became this overflowing garden where the “wand” isn’t necessarily something we hold in our hand. Instead, it is life itself pushing forward. Flowers emerge from flowers, trees stretch beyond their boundaries, colors collide, and even the frame can’t quite contain what is growing inside of it.

I love that the composition refuses to stay neatly within its borders. There are places where the landscape breaks away, flowers spill outward, and the traditional rectangular frame becomes interrupted. That feels important to me. The Ace of Wands represents the moment when something inside of us becomes too alive to remain contained by the structure that existed before it. Sometimes growth looks exactly like that. It isn’t tidy. It doesn’t wait for permission. It simply begins reaching toward whatever light it can find.

The flowers themselves feel almost bodily in this piece and lush, saturated, sensual, tender, strange, and alive. The enormous central bloom becomes almost like a flame surrounded by this explosion of botanical energy. I wanted the card to feel abundant without becoming precious. Nature doesn’t worry about perfection. A tree doesn’t apologize for growing crooked. A flower doesn’t compare itself to the flower blooming beside it. There is something incredibly freeing about thinking of creativity this way: make the thing because something inside you wants to grow.

And perhaps that is becoming one of the deeper lessons Organic Tarot is teaching me while I create it. I don’t have to know what all 78 cards will ultimately look like before I make them. I don’t have to force every answer before the question has finished forming. I can trust the process enough to follow one image into the next, one photograph into another, one card into another, and allow the deck to reveal itself along the way.

For those of you who have pre-ordered Organic Tarot and believed in this project while it is still becoming, I want you to know how meaningful that support is. You aren’t simply waiting for a finished deck to arrive. You are part of its beginning. Your early support gave this idea somewhere to land and helped turn something that existed in my imagination into something tangible that I can hold in my hands.

So this Ace of Wands feels like it belongs to you, too.

It is the spark.

It is the first yes.

It is the seed before anyone knows what the garden will become.

And the garden is growing.

Thank you for being here while it does.