The Pasta Tarot isn’t just a visual gag that replaces spiritual imagery with noodles — it aims to challenge mainstream assumptions about Italian-American culture, whether it’s gender roles or the Roman Catholic church
, it translates the four suits into four pasta shapes . The Magician becomes a Nonna in her kitchen. The Tower is the leaning Tower of Pisa. The Wheel of Fortune, a lazy suzan full of bowls of pasta-bilities.
Tarot is a bit of a spiritual practice for sure, but it’s way more practical, honestly. Then when I met Rob, and saw him doing the pasta-aura readings, I was just blown away by his instinctual knowledge of the spiritual properties of pasta shapes.
Jeff: For us, pasta is almost a universally loved dish, and it was important for us to match that up with something as universal as possible. We just love how the Rider-Waite-Smith deck has been so lively and so recognizable, and it’s such an accessible entry point for people who might not be familiar with tarot or tarot reading. We want you to pick up this deck and hopefully have it be an entrée into your own journey with tarot.
In the process of creating these images, did you learn something new about any of the cards and what it meant or represented? Rob: Also the Seven of Swords, which is typically a card about questioning whether you represent the trickster or the person that’s being tricked. We thought, what if we made it this dog who stole a bowl of bucatini from the table, making you have empathy towards this being that has committed this bad act. Because the dog just needed bucatini!You explicitly center queerness in this project, and you talk about what it means to be a queer Italian-American.
Jeff: I think one of the emblematic cards of the subversion that we’re going for is The Pope. The Hierophant used to be called The Pope before a lot of the occultists rehashed the tarot, so we actually went back to that. So how do we have a card about an institution that put down homosexuality, which is a core tenant of our value system, in this deck without it being contradictory?
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