The Kitchen Witches Tarot

Does one exist? I'm sure there's one out there somewhere. There's a housewife-themed Tarot deck that I fell in love with when it first came out and I WILL own it one day! It's just not available where I currently reside.

Back to a kitchen witch Tarot. I'm sure there's something like that already on the market,and if not, there should be! Now I'm most definitely NOT an artist. Any of my students can tell you that. Whenever I try to draw something on the board to illustrate a point, my efforts are met with much giggling. So, even though I would love to see a kitchen witch Tarot deck and in fact have some ideas for one, I would need to get in touch with an actual artist. You're about to see why.

What would such a deck include, you ask? The thing is, I'm not completely sure yet. I haven't decided what all to include. The elemental representations are fairly simple. Cups would be cups (how novel!). For wands, I have sketched out wooden spoons. Swords would be kitchen knives, of course. As for coins, the element that represents earth, I am thinking about plates. I'm still kind of stuck, but if the goal is to show representations of prosperity, abundance, and the material aspect of life, I think a plate brimming with fruits, bread, cheese, and maybe some meat would be a nifty representation. I'm open to suggestions, but I can easily visualize, for example, the Seven of Plates as one plate full of tasty things, surrounded by the other six plates that are rimmed with gold or decorated with little pentacles and other earthy symbols. Leaves, perhaps.

As for the Major Arcana, I've been toying around with a few ideas there as well. One of the first thoughts I had was to use a mixture of photos and pictures to make a prototype and to have someone like Martha Stewart as the High Priestess. Then I figured someone would throw something at me. *L* I'm still working on it. But maybe The Tower could be represented by a souffle. The Hermit could be a cook buried behind a stack of cookbooks, or a lonely baker who begins work at 2 or 3 am. Again, I'm open to suggestions and would love some feedback if you have any.

Now we come to the portion of the blog entry in which I torture your eyeballs with my "artwork". The quality of the photo isn't very good but neither is the quality of the drawing, so it all works out. I think. Anyway, I drew a representation of Justice. You cannot see her hands very well, but she is holding a cookie in each hand.