There are decks that are made and then there are decks that are remembered into being. Rae's belong to the second kind.
Rae Serafina Barker makes every card herself in hand-layered digital mixed media collage, with no artificial intelligence anywhere in the process. Her tarot, Rooted Remembrance, adds photography to the layers and renames the four suits Roots, Light, Shadow and Dreams, so it asks you to read it on its own terms rather than the tradition's. Her two oracles come at the same deep territory from different depths. The Deep Place speaks to grief, truth telling and creativity across its realms of The Above, The Below and The Liminal. The Stone + Shadow turns to the steadier work of transformation, with its own Book of Mysteries alongside.
She describes herself as a maker and the decks carry that. Each is printed on heavy 400gsm card with gold edging and comes in a rigid two-part box with its guidebook. The oracles are self-published and independently distributed. Rooted Remembrance was created during a transformative period of her life and carries her own invitation at its heart: remember all the way down to the roots.
Rae has no established UK retail presence, so we source directly from her and hold these three decks here in the UK, sent from our shelves rather than from overseas. The Rae Trio exists for anyone who would rather bring all three home at once.
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