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Crow Tarot ready to take flight
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SEATTLE — Marguerite Jones knows the real-life, headline-making story of the little crow girl in Seattle. “Every day the crows would leave her trinkets, and her mom has lost something out of her wallet and the crows brought it back to their house,” said Jones, a Seattle resident who’s also a crow aficionado herself, and has been ever since feeling a mystical connection to the birds while growing up south of Boston. After enduring the “worst month of my entire life” in July 2017, including the possibility of becoming homeless, Jones said, she discovered the crows had left her a trinket of sorts: the inspiration to create a tarot deck based on the birds. An artist who had studied at Parsons School of Design in Manhattan, Jones planned only to “take all the art to Kinko’s and print off a deck for myself.” Then things happened quickly for the self-described “accidental solitary witch.” The result: her Crow Tarot is pre-selling like gangbusters on the Indiegogo page she created, and the deck should be in the hands of her patrons by October. Meanwhile, U.S. Games Systems, one the world’s premier publishers of tarot and oracle cards, is scheduled to issue the deck in January.