The Cat Priestess

The Myth

Long before the first deck was printed, there was a woman who kept a temple no one could find on a map. Her only companion was a black cat with a gold crescent at its throat. Pilgrims came to her with questions, and she gave them all the same answer:

“You did not come here to learn something new. You came here to remember something old.”

The cat never spoke. It didn’t need to. Cats have never once asked for permission to be what they are — and that is the entire teaching.

The Cat Priestess is not a fortune teller. She does not predict. She reflects. Every card in this deck is a scene from her life — a pause, a release, an offering, a wild awakening — and every scene is a mirror. What you see in her is what already lives in you.

The Deck

The Cat Priestess Tarot is a deck of guidance cards drawn in ink and gold on old parchment, marked with the Eye of Horus and the ankh — the old signs for seeing and living. Each card carries a numeral, a name, and an affirmation written in the first person, because the deck’s whole philosophy fits in one line: the answers were never out there.

You will not find swords and pentacles here. You will find her — dancing on cliff edges, holding light in her open palm, sitting still while the world waits — and always, beside her, the cat: instinct, sovereignty, the part of you that never once doubted itself.

The Practice

Draw a card. Read the affirmation out loud, once. Notice what your body does before your mind decides anything.

Then write. The companion journal gives every card its own pages — a guided reflection and room for whatever else wants to be written. Read daily, read rarely; the deck doesn’t keep score. The cards you return to most are not a coincidence. They are a correspondence.

The Maker

The Cat Priestess Tarot is created by IVOSART — a Bulgarian artist and independent maker working between Sofia and Florida, building small mythologies in ink, gold, and parchment. Every card, page, and line of this project is made by one pair of hands, deliberately, in small editions.