This is a MUCH more exciting bit of news that price changes, in my opinion.
Let me start off with a wall of context! (The exposition is beefy in this, so if you want to just skip that and jump to the announcement proper, it’s under the next heading below)

Back in 2007 or so, I started my journey of Northern European Paganism after my religion being a giant question mark, where I was searching for the right one for me for around a decade.

Then, flash forward to 2009 and I had entered a lore program wth an organization (which I will not name here due to the fact that I left them over philosophical differences, as I couldn’t condone the types of groups they were associated with). I completed a lot of the lore program, however, and I was doing tons of at-home research on my own, absorbing sources and buying books and comparing translations. It was a massive amount of work that I put into it; And leaving the abovementioned organization made me feel a bit hollow, but I had all this knowledge, and I had been working towards a goal, and I didn’t just want that goal to die in the water just because the organization I had been a part of was dialectically opposed to me.

So I didn’t let it; I did more research and found a way to get ordained nondenominationally as a priest, and stepped back out into the world as a Vitki, or priest, of Loki, practicing a modernized revivalist form of the Northern European pagan religion in which I try to take their beliefs and codes and apply it to my life in the modern day and world; Honoring the gods but understanding times have moved on and the reasons and need for them will have changed, and attempting to teach people true paganism and help them step away from habits and cycles they’ve picked up from new-age religions which are full of cultural appropriation and disrespect to very real, and very living, cultures and religions.

Soon after getting to that point, however, I started to realize that half of the Northern European Pagan events I would go to were loaded with the same kinds of organizations or people who just blatantly refuse to accept Loki as a god in their own versions of Northern European Paganism.

I could go on a vitriolic rant here, but to simplify that, these events were full of neo nazis and anti-lokean hate, at every turn, and it killed my spirit. I had finally found and worked on a religion for myself for years, only to be faced with all of that when coming back out into the public;
But I wasn’t surprised, I had seen signs of it (which is why I didn’t get my priesthood through my original lore program). It wasn’t until I had recieved my priesthood though, that it all reached a head and I very quickly realized I could not be a part of those groups or organizations.

Now flash forward another few years to 2012; I had been a solitary practitioner for around 2 years by this point, and I was increasingly frustrated that I wasn’t doing anything with my priesthood, but I couldn’t figure out what I wanted to do, and then I had the idea to use my art as a form of my worship, like I was already doing with both my clowning and my fire performance; But the question became how do I do that? What kind of art should I make.

And soon the plans for a Lokean inspired tarot deck started to formulate.
However, nothing is quite so simple as that; I had a fairly rough run between 2012 and 2020, and my art just was never at a point where I would have been proud of a deck if I had started making it, and any number of other excuses I could make to prevent me from starting it.

It wouldn’t be until 2020, when the Pandemic hit, that I finally stepped away from all the things in my life that were preventing me from doing art, and started making art 100% of my focus that motion would start happening again.
And after mulling it over and runnig through ideas about what I would want the deck to include, what I would want to teach with it, and how I would want to present it, I finally decided to announce and start working on the art in January 2024.

But again, things seldom go that easy.

In January I pounded out the first three sketches for the cards.
Then in February I got to work on detailing those sketches into the final card designs.

But while I was doing that, things started to slow down a bit in my mind because I was also doing research the entire time about where and how to publish a tarot deck; Something that I had not REALLY looked into as heavily as I should have by that point, and it was incredibly disheartening.

The very few options for self publishing a deck that I could find were exorbitantly priced, far more expensive than I would be able to afford, and none of them had the options that I would have wanted for the decks. I couldn’t change the card backs, they didn’t allow me to add a booklet with the decks, and so forth.

So while I didn’t want to admit that the project was dead in the water, it FELT like it was. What was the point in continuing to do the art if I couldn’t publish the decks how I wanted them to in the end, and if I didn’t have the funding to do it?
Not to mention how much time and energy distribution and marketting would take on top of all of that.

And then we flash forward again to last month, September 2024, and a chance meeting that reinvigorated everything and finally gave me real direction and not just hope, but excitement, and set everything back on track, and made the insurmountable feel mountable.

I was approached by a woman who had seen some of my Lokean art and other works, and she decided she wanted to commission me for a fairly large Lokean project (I cannot speak as to the details of this project yet, under the terms of our contract, but I’m safe to say I’m doing something for them).

After reviewing the contracts and chatting with her a bit I realized: This might be the answer, let me bring up my Lokabrenna Tarot with her.

So I did, and before I realized it the contracts were already signed and motion was happening.
So what is the announcement?

Lokabreanna Tarot officially has a Publisher!

As of a couple weeks ago, Lokabrenna Tarot will officially be published by a new Mature publishing branch/subsidiary of the already established The Three Little Sisters, called The Dread Sisterhood.

What’s that? You see MY watermark right there under their logo?
That’s right! You do!
In the process of everything, it came to light that they had an issue with the original graphics they had been using for their logo (an AI prompter had scammed them), and so they commissioned me on the spot to swap out their previous logo with one that I drew for them.

But this is not all!
On top of the initial project they approached me for, this logo project, and my Lokabrenna Tarot project, we have also signed and confirmed that I will be publishing through them TWO MORE tarot decks that I have personally been planning quietly (these projects aren’t a secret, but the Lokabrenna tarot has been my primary focus, and they have not yet left the brainstorming phase; But this means both are officially green-lit. One will be Clown and Jester themed, and the other will be straight up Fetish themed).

So, I have a publisher; What does that mean?
Well, in short, all the not-art (and writing; I’m writing my own booklets for these decks) work that is needed for these decks will be handled by The Dread Sisterhood.

They will be handling the publishing, printing, selling, distribution, and much of the marketting for these decks. They already have the network, through their parent publisher The Three Little Sisters. This does mean that my payment from the decks will be largely based on royalties, however since these decks will be 100% my own creation, the royalties for them are fairly T H I C C.

But, I don’t believe that’s the limit of this partnership. I do believe I will be working hand in hand with The Dread Sisterhood with a LOT of projects moving forward, and I am so happy to have chanced a meeting with such a wonderful individual, that set me rocketing down this path!

And as a special addendup to this announcement, I want to go ahead and also give you all a quick behind-the-scenes glimpse at the already-in-motion Lokabrenna Tarot project!