Peep Show Tarot

I began making artwork out of Peeps on Easter Day in 2012. Many peep themed projects followed, including those inspired by movies and crime scenes, holidays of the witch’s wheel (take a peek here: Peep Show), and this one inspired by The Rider Waite Coleman-Smith Tarot Deck.

In 2005, I received my first tarot deck - The Housewives Tarot - as a birthday present from my dear friend Julie. At the time, I didn’t know much about tarot except that it existed and I loved (and still love!) the imagery of The Housewives Tarot. I’d pull a card and then look up the meaning in the accompanying book and interpret it in the context of the question I asked of the tarot. When I tried to do tarot spreads, it just didn’t make sense to me. Even so, I accumulated several more tarot decks over the years: Zombie Tarot, The Rider Tarot Deck, Golden Dawn’s Magical Tarot, Thoth Tarot, Crow Tarot, Alleyman’s Tarot, and Vlad Dracula Tarot (I purchased this one in New Orleans - made sense to me!). Julie gifted me the delightful Cat Tarot in 2022. A little later, I added The Dark Wood Tarot to my collection. And yet, I still didn’t know much of anything about tarot. Until 2023.

Over the years, I purchased online courses to learn about the tarot but didn’t make it past any of the first lessons. In Winter and Spring 2023, while preparing for an immersive week-long, in-person Tarot Camp in New Orleans at Varlow Tarot Camp taught by Veronica Varlow and David Varlow (Veronica Varlow), I completed their online tarot course to help prepare myself for Tarot Camp using both The Rider Tarot Deck and The Wild Unknown Tarot. I felt inspired to create my very own Peep Show Tarot, partly to help with my learning process and partly because I love making art projects with these cute little marshmallowy, squishy, sticky Peeps bunnies.

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There are 78 cards in the tarot. Each card contains archetypes of either major life events (major arcana) or day-to-day life events (minor arcana).

Many interpretations exist for the meaning of each tarot card, so I don’t provide any here.

When learning the tarot, the place to start is simply to notice what comes up for you when you look at the imagery of a particular tarot card.

So let your imagination run wild!