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Alchemical Alliance
A gathering of collaborators and creative allies who transform mystery into meaning drawing light from darkness through shared exploration.
What you encounter here is the result of creative alchemy.
These partnerships are born where imagination meets inquiry, where fear gives way to fascination, and where creation begins in shadow. Every contribution leaves a trace an echo of something once hidden, now revealed just enough to be felt.
They are not simply guests, they are all fellow seekers, makers, and keepers of the unknown.
Each collaborator who enters this space brings their own craft stories, research, sound, art, insight shaped in solitude and curiosity. Coming from the shadowed questions and half‑seen truths, they create works that challenge, illuminate, and linger. Like the alchemists, they labor in the dark so that something meaningful may emerge into the light.
They arrive from different paths, yet share the same impulse, to explore what lies beneath the surface and give form to the unseen.
This space exists to honor those who walk beside us those willing to descend, to question, to create, and to return with something worth sharing.
Not answers but illumination.
Anastasia Kashian
Anastasia Kashian is an artist focused on storytelling and symbolic language, with her work featured in public and private collections worldwide, particularly in the UK and Spain. She holds a degree in anthropology from University College London and an MA in Word and Visual Imagination from the University of Wales.Her passion for tarot began at age 13, leading to a lifelong engagement with cartomantic imagery. Her publications include Dinosaures de Marseille Tarot (2021) and Baba Yaga’s Little Book of Hut Maintenance, or Chicken Legs for the Soul (2025), inspired by Slavic folklore and heritage.Based primarily in West Wales, Anastasia maintains strong ties to Spain, where she lived for over a decade, blending cultural influences into her creative work.
Andrea Aste
Andrea Aste is an award-winning, multimedia visionary artist, animator, published author, and illustrator. Known as "The Artist Philosopher", Aste holds a master’s degree in philosophy, which heavily influences his parallel fictional worlds, blending deep contemplative themes with artistic expression.His works have been exhibited globally in prestigious museums, such as the Musée Grévin in Paris, Montreal and Geneva, and the Natural Science Museum in Turin. He has been featured in galleries like the Guildhall Gallery in London and at major events such as the Venice Biennale (2015).Aste is widely recognised in the world of Tarot and graphic novels for his innovative decks and hybrid novels, including The Ghastly Lenormand (2024), The Book of Shadows: An Alchemist’s Story (2023), The Tarot of Light and Shadow (2020), and The Lost Code of Tarot (2017). His illustrated and authored work, Oracolarium (2020), introduced the world’s first augmented reality oracle deck, where the cards come animated when viewed through a mobile app. The Book of Shadows: An Alchemist’s Story was shortlisted at the TABI Carta Award for Best Tarot Deck, Best Book Accompanying a Deck, and Outstanding Artistic Achievement.His most recent children's book, Mind The Kraken and Other Curious Creatures (2024), was winner of the Outstanding Children's Middle Grade Category in the prestigious 2024 IAN Book of the Year Awards. Aste’s stage credits include collaborations with international performer Arturo Brachetti. His acted as artistic director and on stage animator for the production of the horror showof Shiver (2021), performed at the Grant Museum of Zoology, London, and the stage performance of Hide (2023), presented at London's Vault Festival. He continues developing his unique techniques for live on-stage illustration and animations.
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Caitlín Matthews
Caitlín Matthews is a renowned writer, singer, and teacher known for her work on Celtic wisdom, Western Mysteries, and European ancestral traditions. She has authored over 80 books, including Sophia Goddess of Wisdom and The Lost Book of the Grail, co-created with John Matthews and Gareth KnightTrained in esoteric traditions linked to Dion Fortune and Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki she blends scholarship with lived spiritual practice. Her work focuses on ancestral wisdom, spirit communication, and voice-based healing.A performer as well as a teacher, she has contributed to film and media, including King Arthur. She co-founded the Foundation for Inspirational and Oracular Studies and runs a shamanic practice in Oxford, helping others reconnect with purpose and ancestral roots.
Camelia Elias
Camelia Elias is a retired university professor. Currently she pursues her interests in teaching and writing on the philosophy and practice of reading cards. She works with contemplative arts, oracular language, and martial arts cartomancy and Zen at her own school, Aradia Academy. Half of the 42 books she has written to date are dedicated to cartomancy. Her motivation to continue writing on this topic is sparked by the superlative comments she gets from students all over the world, who consistently declare that her work genuinely changes their lives. Her latest contribution to cartomancy is the title ‘Scent and Divination’ available from EyeCorner Press. For more on her other interests, including composing natural perfumery, crafting porcelain vessels, and making calligraphy scrolls, visit her work at her website below
Denis Poisson
Denis Poisson is the host of the Foolish Fish Youtube channel. The majority of his content revolves around reviews and previews of books for the modern, practicing esotericist and occultist, and introducing his viewers to new ideas, and maps of the spiritual experience, scouting the edges of commonly accepted tropes and dogma to work out what’s really going on out there. His core passion is helping others see past the maps and the words and rules and the prescriptions and apprehend firsthand the divine ground of which we are both a part and the whole. The Foolish Fish Discord chat server, which he maintains along with a group of dedicated, passionate admins, has also been an enormous success, growing to encompass most aspects of Magic and Esotericism that might be relevant to any explorer.
- Book a personal consultation:https://foolishfish.simplybook.it/- Support me on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/foolishfish- Folk and Fairy Tale Cards of Fate and Fortune:https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/foolish-fish-s-folk-fairy-tale-cards-of-fate-fortune
Jen Sankey
Jen Sankey is an author, deck creator, tarot reader, professional witch, and speaker. She blends tarot, lunar magic, and spiritual guidance to create transformative tools. Her works include the award-winning Stardust Wanderer Tarot (Self-Published) Mass Market coming July 2026, Enchanted Forest Felines Tarot (Llewellyn), Manifesting with the Moon: A Lunar Guide to Magic (Llewellyn), Feb 2026 Goblin Whispers Tarot (2028, Llewellyn). Jen shares her knowledge through workshops, events, and online platforms, inspiring others to embrace their intuition and magical potential. Follow her here
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Donnaleigh de LaRose
Donnaleigh has been reading Tarot for over 20 years, Lenormand for over 14 years and now teaches both systems.Donnaleigh loves helping people find their divinatory wings! Her educational podcast, "Tarot Tribe: Beyond Worlds" won Best Educational Cartomancy Podcast for several years in a row. She has hundreds of video tutorials on YouTube, featuring free classes on Tarot, Lenormand, Runes and more. You'll find her writings in several published decks' Little White Books, and she has been a consultant for several deck creators on how to make their decks more readable. She also loves reading crystals, bones, shells, runes, charms, and helping others to tap into their intuitive sides. You can learn more about Donnaleigh at her website, Donnaleigh.com, all of her social media accounts are linked, and she is available for personal reading consultations.
Ethony Dawn
I’ve been reading the Tarot for over 22 years for clients all over the world. My book, “Your Tarot Court” was published with Llewellyn in 2019. I have also created 4 Tarot decks and 3 Oracle decks. I’m headmistress of the Tarot Readers Academy which has over 10,000 students, and I’ve been teaching people to read the Tarot for over 15 years.It’s my calling to help Awakened Souls around the world with the Tarot, Oracle cards, magic, and spiritual tools. I have been captivated by the world of Tarot for most of my life and I am blessed to work with amazing clients to help them find clarity, illumination, and personal epiphanies. I believe that magic is everywhere and that our lives can be truly enchanted if we are open and awakened. I was born in Canada and raised in Australia and now call Vancouver, BC, home. I am a Tarot reader and author who loves to create more than sleep.
Maria Alviz Hernando
María (The Sibyl's Tarot) began her tarot journey around 2006 secretly purchasing her first deck one she has never put down. What started as a curiosity evolved into a fulltime profession and in 2017 she founded The Sibyl’s Tarot. Today, she is a multisystem reader teacher international speaker, and author of Tarot Tableau RevolutionHer signature method, Tarot Tableau, blends traditional tarot with European cartomancy to deliver clear, practical, and actionable readings. She combines prediction with analysis, offering clients a well-rounded perspective and grounded guidanceAlongside tarot she works with systems like Lenormand, Oracle Belline creating decks including The Oracle Belline Reimagined and The Thinning Veil Oracle. Contributed to The Voice & Vision Tarot by Ciro MarchettiShe promotes accessible divination education through classes mentoring and global conferences. Based in Madrid she shares her home with her husband and five mischievous cats
Mary K Greer
Mary K. Greer is an independent scholar, writer, teacher, and professional tarot consultant, known for her innovative teaching techniques. With over 56 years tarot experience, she is the author of 12 books on tarot and on magic, has a master’s degree in English literature, and taught tarot in colleges and universities for 12 years. Her 1984 book Tarot for Your Self revolutionized the practice of tarot, being the first book to both describe how to read for oneself, and use tarot as a self-help, personal development, and creativity tool. As an author and teacher she emphasizes breaking all the rules regarding methods of learning and using the tarot to find what truly works for you. As a tarot reader, she thinks of herself as a ‘midwife of the soul,’ favoring techniques that are interactive, transformational and empowering.
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Paul H Richard
Paul humbly stands in the grace-filled ancient heritage of his Elders from Indigenous America and Celtic Ireland. Immersed in their spiritual teachings, values, and traditions, Paul strives to bring their healing wisdom to his own life and to the lives of others.Paul is a sought after Evolutionary Astrologer, counselor, teacher, workshop presenter, and cartomancer, with more than 40 years experience. He has deep roots in Native American, Celtic spiritualities; mythology; archetypal psychology; art; ritual and symbol; shamanistic tradition; and dream work. Using the ancient arts of his ancestors, and the “modern” arts of Evolutionary Astrology, Tarot de Marseille, Lenormand, and other oracles, Paul seeks to enhance a person’s awareness of the sacred tools and abilities they have been given; so that they can create a life of passion, purpose, empowerment, and meaning.
Rana George
Rana George, a renowned author and divination expert, has written the best-selling and highly acclaimed “The Essential Lenormand: Your Guide to Precise & Practical Fortunetelling.” Additionally, Rana is the creator of the award-winning Lenormand deck, “Rana George Lenormand.” A respected figure in the modern divination community, Rana has been featured in Forbes magazine.Throughout 40 years, Rana has dedicated herself to being a psychic, counselor, mentor, teacher, and medium. Most importantly an avid lifelong learner. Rana actively teaches in regular workshops, study groups, lectures, and intensive courses at conferences worldwide.https://www.facebook.com/share/173upKAfgi/
Rebecca Birrell
Rebecca Birrell is an Artist, Designer, Professional Cartomancer and Teacher of Tarot and the Magickal Arts, Founder and Creator of My Inner Witch. She has been reading Tarot for 30 years and is also a professional Lenormand reader and Astrologer. Magick, mysticism, the occult and the esoteric are an integral part of her lifestyle, she is passionate about reclaiming the word witch to denote wisdom, empowerment and connection.Rebecca is a regular speaker at international divination conferences and co-author of the Original Petit Etteilla- a Cartomancers Guide to Divination with Caitlin Matthews. She is a content creator for The Tarot Association of British and International Members and the Tarot Guild of Australia. She offers courses, workshops and professional reading sessions. She also creates decks, divination tools and wearable art.
Sasha Graham
Sasha Graham is a world-renowned tarot expert, bestselling author, award winning tarot deck creator, actor and educator who teaches and lectures around the globe. Her work has been translated into more than 10 languages and she is the author of 12 books including Tarot Diva, 365 Tarot Spreads, 365 Tarot Spells, Llewellyn’s Complete Book of the Rider Waite Smith Tarot, The Magic of Tarot and the forthcoming Artist's Guide to Tarot (2025). She served as editor and writer of Lo Scarabeo’s Tarot Fundamentals, Tarot Experience, and Tarot Compendium, Dark Side of Tarot & Tarot Original 1909 series. Graham is a contributing author of Llewellyn’s Magical Almanac, 2020, 2022, 2024, Witches’ Datebook 2022, 2024 and Llewellyn’s Witches’ Calendar, 2021, 2023. Her tarot decks include Tarot of Haunted House, Dark Wood Tarot, Tarot of the Witch's Garden and the forthcoming Gothic Glamour Oracle (2026) and Vampire Tarot (2026). Graham is an indie horror actress and host/creator of a monthly, live, crowd-sourced creepy story share and podcast called Sasha Graham's Ghost Stories by the Fire.Sasha’s evolving story - you might call it a fairy tale - just goes to show what happens when you persevere, follow your instincts, and believe in magic.
Preorder: The Vampire's Tale Tarot
Sasha Graham's Ghost Stories & Tarot Premieres at Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Toni Savory
I am Toni, aka The Card Geek, the visionary behind World Divination. With a passion for uncovering the secrets of traditional divination, I spent the last decade continuing to study Lenormand, Kipper, Gypsy Cards For 15 years, I lived just steps from Munich birthplace of the original Kipper Deck and near Nuremberg, where the Game of Hope took root. Now settled in the heart of Northern Ireland with my two boys and partner Jane Matthews. Author of many books including; The Card Geek’s Guide to Kipper, Rainbow Kipper, Lustrous Lenormand, I also created decks and courses that inspire students worldwide.
Mastering the Table Tableau Revisiting predictive Accuracy with Tarot https://a.co/d/7BJlCMOThe four selves oracle https://a.co/d/9unRiFDhttps://www.facebook.com/share/1CmEVVxJaa/