How an ‘Ivy League Witch’ Brought Broadway to Tarot Cards

variety.com:

Gordon Cox Theater Editor Broadway fans often talk about theater as a spiritual experience — but most of them aren’t thinking of tarot cards when they say it.

That could change thanks to a new tarot deck that’s a surprising mashup of Broadway and theater, reimagining the traditional imagery of tarot with the artwork of the famous theater caricaturist Al Hirschfeld. Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below: The Hirschfeld Broadway Tarot is the brainchild of Emily McGill, a former Broadway publicist who worked with the Al Hirschfeld Foundation to create the new deck that’s set to be released Sept.

3. Calling herself an “Ivy League Witch” — she has a master of arts in spiritual psychology from Columbia University’s Spirituality Mind Body Institute — she described studies that point to tarot as “an effective tool for self-reflection” on the latest episode of “Stagecraft,” Variety’s theater podcast.

McGill said she focuses on the psychological and therapeutic benefits of tarot readings rather than using them to predict the future.