What Does The Deck Say? May 19, 2025

The Hoodoo Tarot: Dr. Buzzard, Daughter of Sticks, Nine of Knives. © Tayannah Lee McQuilar

Today’s cards: Dr. Buzzard, Daughter of Sticks, Nine of Knives.

If you wait for someone else to recognize the trouble you’re in, you’re going to remain in that trouble for far longer than you will be comfortable doing. The only one that is going to save you is yourself, but be just as diligent about how you work your way out as your are determined to work your way out. The last thing you need to is to dig a deeper hole for yourself than you started out in. This isn’t a question about whether what you did was right or wrong, this is a question about what are you willing to live with yourself after.


Tayannah Lee McQuillar’s Hoodoo Tarot celebrates the complex American Rootwork tradition by integrating esoteric and botanical knowledge from Hoodoo with the divination system of the tarot. Structured like a traditional tarot deck, each of the 78 cards features full-color paintings by magical-realist artist Katelan Foisy and elegantly interprets the classical tarot imagery through depiction of legendary rootworkers past and present as well as important Hoodoo symbolism. The Hoodoo Tarot is © Tayannah Lee McQuillar and Katelan Foisy.

What Does The Deck Say” is a weekday series of 3 card pulls from a cartomancy deck. No context or query is given to frame what the cards say as the posts are reading samples and not personal instruction. The result is sometimes humorous, sometimes serious, and usually surprising. All readers are invited to leave a comment about what they perceive in the random spread as each person will interact with the cards in their own way.

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