In the winter of 2011, however, something unexpected happened that changed everything. Taking a break from writing, I was sitting on the sofa in my living room and just staring out the window at the trees and bushes beyond when I felt a presence in the room behind me. Turning around, I saw in my mind’s eye a swirling, shifting, radiant mist in the air near the fireplace. At the same time I felt another mind in touch with my own and heard it say, “I am one of the Sidhe, and I’ve come to help you with the card deck.” This being no sooner said this than there flashed into my mind a complete picture of what a Sidhe card deck would look like when laid out and the major components of what such a deck should contain. There were few details—they came later—but the basic pattern was very clear.
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