Celeste Mott
Celeste Mott has built a career reading tarot cards, and the classic Rider-Waite deck of 1909 remains her favorite set. The Tower card of the Major Arcana, depicting a spire set ablaze by a bolt of lightning, is perhaps too apt for 2020. W.B. Yeats makes an appearance, as well—few realize the Irish poet’s penchant for the occult. This year’s “Myths and Legends” issue is full of such surprises. Read on for stories about an ex-vegetarian living at a hunting camp, a West African Prince enslaved in Natchez, and Edwin Edwards’ likeness living atop a rural Louisiana nightclub. Faith finds foundation in Louisiana’s murky waters, and High Vodou Priests are much more like the rest of us than you think. And Mott, an accomplished New Orleans tarot reader, has found a way to read your cards, even without your presence. Contradictions, mystery, history, and lore abound in the way that only thrives when one asks the right questions, and stops to listen for an infinity of answers. Read the entire issue here.
