Welcome to The Rebis
About us. The Rebis is a unique print publication dedicated to exploring the relationship between tarot and creativity through original art, essays, fiction, and poetry. Each issue brings an international group of artists and writers together to explore a single tarot card—the first issue covers the Wheel of Fortune and the second issue focuses on The Chariot. These are archival-quality anthologies exploring the psychology, mythology, spirituality, and artistic beauty of tarot.
We are grounded in anticapitalist principles of art-making during times of crisis and redistribute all profits to social justice orgs. To date we have donated over $4800. Our intention for The Rebis is to hold space for awe, beauty, joy, and creativity, while also being committed to collective liberation. Learn more here.
“The thing I find so enchanting about The Rebis is the way it functions like a kaleidoscope, refracting a card you thought you knew into dozens of different shapes and hues, so when you look at the card again it’s enlivened by all these diverse perspectives and possibilities. I think the creative angle is especially fruitful for deepening one’s relationship to a card, because instead of having a card’s ‘meaning’ explained to you, you get to experience it through art, or a poem, or a story. It takes tarot out of the prescriptive box of keywords and definitions and makes it experiential and embodied.”
—Charlie Claire Burgess, guest editor for The Star issue
About our name. The Rebis takes our name from the Latin res bina, meaning double matter. The Rebis is the result of the “great work” in alchemy: the pursuit of the philosopher’s stone.
Metaphorically, it represents a harmonious union of opposites—death and rebirth, body and soul, light and shadow. A fitting name for a publication devoted to tarot and creativity, to the pursuit of integrating the conscious with the unconscious and finding wholeness within.
A note about Substack. This space is a digital extension, where we’ll be sharing periodic magazine updates, tarot musings, and inspiration from artists and writers in our community.
