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About Nellie's Deck
Imagine you've climbed the narrow stair of an abandoned lighthouse and found, tucked beneath a dust-sheeted trunk, a woman's journal and a deck of hand-inked cards. That's the premise of this deck: Nellie McNally, a lighthouse keeper alone on her island in 1861, braided three languages of fortune-telling into a single deck of playing cards — the meanings she learned at her father's table, a painted Lenormand symbol she set beside each one, and the Tarot key each card echoes.
Pull a card and you'll meet all three at once: the playing-card meaning, the Lenormand symbol, and the Tarot key. What you won't find here is Nellie's own diary — the day-by-day account of the summer she spent at her kitchen table building this deck, grieving what she'd lost and finding what she hadn't expected to. That belongs to the fuller journal, and it felt wrong to scatter its pages loose from the rest of her story.
Draw a card, or wander the deck, and let her voice do the rest.