Emily Carding

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Emily Carding is a professional actor, writer and artist living by the sea in beautiful East Sussex. They are a solo parent to a teenage gothspring who was once an adorable faery child and possibly still is somewhere under all the hoodies and grunting. They are the creator of The Transparent Tarot, The Transparent Oracle, The Tarot of the Sidhe and The Simple Wisdom of the Household Dog for Schiffer Books and Faery Craft and So Potent Art: The Magic of Shakespeare for Llewellyn, with Seeking Faery due out from Llewellyn in 2022. They have also written a number of essays in esoteric anthologies on a variety of subjects for Avalonia Books. As an artist they also illustrated Gods of the Vikings for Avalonia Books, a number of book covers for the same publisher and the majors only deck Tarot of the Black Mountain. As an actor they are best known for their international tour of the award-winning Richard III (a one woman show) by Brite Theater and they make a brief appearance in the British horror movie Ghost Stories, where they play the ghost of Martin Freeman’s wife. They managed to not call him ‘Bilbo’ once whilst filming.

Emily holds a BA (hons) in Theatre Arts from Bretton Hall and an MFA in Staging Shakespeare from the University of Exeter. They are an initiate of the Alexandrian Wiccan tradition, a Keybearer for the Covenant of Hekate and have been working with Tarot for over twenty-five years.

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