Magic is an essential tool for healing and social change within our communities. Liberation Tarot is a collection of 79 tarot cards and accompanying guidebook, created over the course of four years by more than thirty artists and writers living in the US, Canada, France, Brazil, Palestine, and Mexico. The booklet includes an introduction from deck organizer Elicia Epstein, insightful essays by adrienne maree brown and lawrence barriner II, and beautifully crafted card descriptions from poet emet ezell. Following in the lineage of projects like Slow Holler, The Collective Tarot, and Next World Tarot, Liberation Tarot seeks to serve as a tool for those inspired towards revolution in the face of the able-centered, capitalist, heterocis-normative, white-supremacist patriarchy. Tarot helps us re-write the vocabulary of power, and with it, to strengthen our muscles of radical, revolutionary, and abolitionist dreaming. The deck eschews conventional tarot cards like the Emperor or Knight in favor of non-hierarchical cards honoring revolutionary concepts and figures such as the Crone, the Healer, and the Rebel, among others. Figures in the deck have bodies of all shapes and sizes, colors, genders, ages, and abilities—together, elaborating a vision of collective liberation and co-resistance. Featuring artwork by INVASORIX, Eva Wǒ, Elicia Epstein, Cole James, Danielle Wright, As They Lay (Karryl Eugene and Abdu Ali), Charmaine Bee, Petra Floyd and Cyree Jarelle Johnson, Katie Kaplan, Cassie Thornton, J. Wu, Anne Horel, Kinoko, Malaya Tuyay, Scarlet Tunkl, Amina Ross, Nissa Gustafson, Malak Mattar, Edgar Fabián Frías, Amir Khadar, Mark Allen, Syan Rose, Aparna Sarkar, Shoog McDaniel, nkiruka oparah, Nathaniel Russell, Jennifer Moon, and Jarret Hood. Elicia Epstein is a semi-nomadic multimedia artist and organizer, currently getting their Master’s in Fine Arts from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture. Elicia’s creative inquiries manifest conceptually and promiscuously across a broad range of media including sculpture, installation, photo, video, performance, publication, printmaking, collage, and cross-media collaboration. Her work has been shown in several places in and outside of the US, most recently at the Oakland Museum of California’s Hella Feminist exhibit. The Tarot Teaches Us to Trust My name is adrienne maree brown, and I am a writer (author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds ) and baby tarot oracle. In 2012, after powerful tarot readings from Shira Hassan and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha, I got my first tarot deck and learned to play and read the cards as I went on a six-country journey that put me in scholarship of the cycles of the planet. Now I have upwards of forty decks, have cocreated a Black artist tarot deck (the Octavia E. Butler Tarot Deck , from AK Press) and, in this Liberation Tarot deck, I experience a tarot first—I am part of the art! Here I am the Healer of Vessels as envisioned by Eva Wu, which I feel deeply honors my commitment to rooting my work and world in love. Tarot is simultaneously a visual game, a set of timeless archetypal stories, and a way to be in relationship with our intuition. I believe intuition is one of the ways we most clearly feel our nature, our embodied wisdom, our primal knowing. My relationship to tarot is concurrent with my relationship to the framework of emergent strategy, which is a way of understanding humans as part of the natural world, pointing to how we can get in right relationship with change. As I introduce the Liberation Tarot deck to you here, please know that I believe the intuitive gifts of tarot are woven together with emergent strategy and collective practice. The Liberation Tarot deck feels like it is sourced from all the aliveness of earth. The cards are vibrant and suggest a worldview that decenters humanity while giving up nothing of our miraculous nature. The cards are reimagined to fit a worldview that is beyond gender, disrupts assumptions of violence as power, and centers interdependence in a process of life moving towards life. We look together through many imaginations to see the wisdom of this tarot deck, the octopus imagination of our ancestors, the verdant queer imagination of our courage, the sharp and muted internal imagination of our interior realm. Particularly moving is the way this deck holds the traditionally more frightening cards of the deck—death and the tower—both are opportunities to be with what is, face the possibility even inside moments we fear, such as Chaos. I am excited to shuffle this deck. I am excited for how it will dance with my intuition. I have always had a strong intuition, but struggled to trust it. For years, I would notice after something had gone awry that I knew it was going to happen, that I had imagined it going that way, or I had thought of a big question (Was that milk sour? Is this the right set of keys?) which would have illuminated a different path had I an