Kat Black has produced a couple of truly beautiful tarot decks. Her latest, a musical deck, Tarot of the Troubador takes a creative and original approach by pairing each card with a song.
It’s a distinctive system, and one that invites a different kind of engagement with the cards. While the musical layer didn’t immediately resonate with me, I’m curious to spend more time with it, and I encourage you to explore her work directly. It’s a thoughtful and visually striking deck.
Here is how this spread reads when interpreted through the lens of the Eilat Tarot:
Living inside a change that has already occurred, while understanding catches up.
1. The Root: your past, foundation, or current subconscious energy.
Nun - Death (Scorpio) Smell
The Path Between Connection and Persistence
What passes through change. What remains.
2. The Path: your present challenge, action, or immediate focus.
Nine - Night of the Mind (Connection יְסוֹד)
Rest denied from within. Troubling thoughts brought honestly to prayer.
(Tribe of Zebulun, Gemini, month of Sivan)
3. The Destiny: Your outcome, future trajectory, or the lesson to learn.
Kaf - The Empress (Venus) Life and Death
The Path Between Persistence and Overflowing Love
Life in passing. What continues.
This is the kind of clarity the Eilat Tarot is designed to offer: reading not for prediction, but for the structure of experience.
Here is my original design for the Eilat Tarot, created with MSPaint and Google Docs:
This version carried the structure and ideas I wanted, but it was still a working draft, something built to think with rather than something ready to live in the world.
Here is the new version of the same card, redesigned by Amashé Etz Alon:
He has carefully reworked each element of the card, clarifying the structure, refining the typography, and bringing a sense of balance and visual presence that my original version didn’t yet have.
Seeing the two side by side, I’m struck by how much of the original vision remains, and how much more vivid it has become.
He’ll soon begin assembling the full deck and finalizing the card backs. I’m eager to see the entire set come together, and, at long last, to hold a finished deck in my hands!
I’m testing a new spread to see if the entire Eilat Tarot deck can be used to answer questions like these. The card images are from the Tarot of the Abyss by Ann Tourian. The card meanings are from the Eilat Tarot, The Little White Book.
I call this the Four Worlds Spread. This spread can be used to explore identity, direction, or a particular life question. I drew two cards for each of the Four Olomot: Aẓilut (Emanation), Beriah (Creation), Yeẓirah (Formation), and Asiyah (Action). The first card answers, “How are you present in this world?” The second card answers, “What is being asked of you in this world?"
Aẓilut - Emanation
Essence, orientation, the deepest level of identity
Who you are at your soul-root:
The Emperor - (Hei/Aries) Order and structure. Authority and boundaries that protect what may endure.
What you are called to embody or align with:
Mother of Cups - Sustaining and protecting life. Creating conditions where others can endure and grow.
Beriah - Creation
Inner life, values, and meaning
How you understand yourself inwardly:
Nine of Pentacles - Earned autonomy, self-worth, and quiet serenity.
What is being formed or invited within:
Ace of Pentacles - A gift of physical life. The seed of embodied blessing.
Yeẓirah - Formation
Energy, relationship, and becoming
How your life-force is taking shape:
Ace of Wands - A gift of vitality. Creative life-force waiting to be shaped.
What is being developed, built, or carried forward:
Ten of Pentacles - Stability and inheritance. What endures beyond a single life.
Asiyah - Action
Behavior, circumstance, and lived reality
How you are acting and responding in the world:
Seven of Swords - Strategy under pressure. Survival through concealment or risk.
What is required in concrete terms:
Mother of Swords - Mature discernment. Seeing clearly and choosing what must be spoken.
This is the heart of the reading:
I am someone who is organized and capable of holding a project. I have already built some independence and now I'm carrying a genuine creative beginning. My task is to proceed with care rather than structure alone, to receive new forms of material grounding and support, to shape this creative beginning into something that endures, and to move from guarded strategy into clear and inspired action.
