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Annual #tarot literary anthology. Each print issue explores a tarot card through art & creative writing.

The Devil issue shipping now ❤️‍🔥

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Los Angeles! Join us Sat. 11/15 at 4pm at Philosophical Research Society for an intimate conversation about The Devil w/ @the-red-read.bsky.social. @beescolnick.bsky.social @feminnis.bsky.social @hannaheve.com

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November 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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A Dead Kennedys inspired #tarot spread for these times.⁠
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Featured in our latest issue and created by @megjoneswall.bsky.social.

Pull one card for each position anytime you need to embrace rebellion, think for yourself, or fight a Nazi.

Stay safe out there + raise some hell.
A magazine spread from The Rebis displays a tarot spread titled "NAZI PUNKS FUCK OFF!", with two card pulls being "PUNK MEANS THINKING FOR YOURSELF" and "WE AIN'T TRYING TO BE POLICE".
October 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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#LosAngeles friends! Join us 11/15 at 4pm at Philosophical Research Society for an intimate conversation about The Devil w/ @the-red-read.bsky.social. @beescolnick.bsky.social @feminnis.bsky.social @hannaheve.com

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Promo for an event on the Devil Major Arcana card at Philosophical Research Society with The Rebis, Christopher Marmolejo, Maria Minnis, and Rebecca Scolnick, moderated by Hannah Levy.
October 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Witches have #NoKings ❤️‍🔥

Come out today to Sunshine Prophecy in #Oakland ~ community & art making & witchy wares. We'll be here till 5pm.

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October 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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In her essay for The Devil, Laetitia Barbier challenges our notions on certainty & makes a case for a David Lynchian approach to #tarot reading.

Read the full essay in The Devil, our fourth anthology. 120 pages of writing + art devoted to this archetype. Shipping now!

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"Tarot lives in liminality, not rigidity. Meaning isn't locked into symbols or the dot-connecting, it's made in the space betwixt and between, the dreamy Lynchian space. If your system can't survive a color shift, it's not divination-it might be the chains of The Devil."
October 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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The Devil never looked this good... 🌹🐍

In our fourth print anthology, we ask: What happens when we make art not only ~in~ the shadows, but ~with~ them? Can we allow beauty to emerge from the grotesque?⁠
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Check out this issue here: therebis.com/products/devil

Art by @xavieralopez.bsky.social
Illustration of a large red rose against a black circle with a gradient background. A blue snake coils around the rose stem, adding a mystical feel.
October 15, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Reviews are rolling in! ❤️‍🔥

We've loved seeing where The Devil ends up and we're so grateful to our readers for supporting this project.
Pink silhouette of a human figure with abstract elements on a grey background, featuring a quote praising "The Rebis" magazine for its artistic and spiritual content, attributed to reader Lesley F.
October 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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#Oakland #BayArea folks - join us at A Magical Marketplace on Saturday, Oct 18th from 11-5 at The Sunshine Prophecy. We'll be there cheering on folks protesting in the No Kings March, come after to hang!

Come get witchy, celebrate local artists, and connect with intuitive guidance.
October 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Meet Aliya Bree Hall, a lesbian author, freelance journalist, and founder of Sapphic Stories Book Club: Queer & Feminist Tales.

Her essay in our Devil issue is an intimate exploration of memory, shame, and trauma—and how she is learning to court pleasure.

Out now! www.therebis.com/products/devil
A person with long curly hair, wearing a green sweater, smiles brightly while holding up a tarot card. The card depicts The Devil, illustrated as a woman in a red polka-dotted dress sitting on a mushroom, with a spiderweb in the background. quote card with a cream background and a gold decorative flourish at the top. The text reads: “I've only pulled The Devil card twice. The first was days before I embarked on a painful but necessary journey through my memory, and the second was in its reversal form at the end of that lunar year. It's a deeply personal card to me, and with it showing up in my life when and how it did, it's hard not to interpret the card as an embodiment of trauma. But I think, more than that, The Devil is a reminder of the pattern of shame and guilt that I have punished myself with, and shows me I'm capable of moving through that.” –Aliya Bree Hall
September 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Stephanie Adams-Santos & Anna Barouh Davis return as Rebis contributors! They created a ritual guide for our Devil anthology—one that will take you on a journey of initiation and transformation, where we shed old skin, and embrace what is emergent: our dreaming, our becoming.
A person with curly dark hair, a septum piercing, and a patterned shirt covered in strawberry shapes holds up a tarot card, The Devil (XV). The card shows a horned, goat-like figure with one knee raised, surrounded by abstract shapes. A mounted animal head is visible on the wall behind them. The image is in black and white. A person with brown hair in a braid and bangs, wearing a patterned cardigan and white top, smiles while holding up a tarot card called 'The Devil.' Behind them are artworks on the wall, including a large blue abstract figure, a framed photograph, and a pencil drawing of a person wearing sunglasses and a sports bra.
September 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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The Devil anthology is now available for preorder!

120 pages, 38 writers + artists exploring power, rebellion, desire, shadow work & more.

Ships in early Oct.

Profits support social justice orgs.

Get your copy: www.therebis.com/products/devil
A person holds a magazine titled “The Rebis” with a bold red cover. The artwork features a surreal illustration of a human figure entwined with a goat, dragon wings, and botanical elements like grapes and leaves. At the bottom, the words “Tarot Creative Writing Art” are printed. The magazine rests on a light gray surface with crystals and a smoky quartz obelisk in the background.
September 5, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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COVER REVEAL!

Designed and illustrated by @xavieralopez.bsky.social, the cover for our fourth anthology is inspired by Devil themes: Jungian ideas of duality and the Shadow, eroticism, alchemical transformation, underworld mythologies, and gods + goddesses from religious and pagan traditions.
September 3, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Are you ready to meet The Devil? Preorders open soon!

120 pages of writing + art from 38 contributors. This isn't your average #litmag. It's a ritual object... & we can't wait to share it with you.

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Inside cover art by @xavieralopez.bsky.social
A bold red silhouette against a black background, depicting a surreal fusion of forms: the head of a horned goat, abstract branching shapes with circular ends, floral and plant-like tendrils, and animal limbs. The overlapping shapes create a dense, mysterious, otherworldly mass.
September 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Meet @larisanjou.bsky.social, a multidisciplinary artist based in Anjou, France. A daughter of the Puerto Rican diaspora, her work explores histories through a vibrant visual language that she calls Domestic Psychedelia. For The Rebis, she created a beautiful linoprint illustration of The Devil.
A person with long brown hair lies on the ground, gazing upward with a playful expression. Resting in their hair is the tarot card Le Diable (The Devil) from the Marseille deck, showing a horned figure with two smaller chained figures. The person wears red lipstick and a gold septum ring. A cream-colored background with a decorative golden flourish at the top and a black-and-gold logo at the bottom. Centered text reads: “I think The Devil gets a bum rap because of its sinister iconography, and its association with the ‘unhealthy’: vices and addictions, shadowy secrets, the taboo, and even ways of thinking that no longer serve us. One might feel beholden to, or even enslaved by, unhealthy attachments and base instincts. However, the chains are not unbreakable: The Devil reminds me that liberation is within arm’s reach.” –Lari Burgos
September 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Meet @beescolnick.bsky.social, who wrote a delicious essay for The Rebis about The Devil through the lens of reality dating show "Love Island"—exploring what keeps us chained to cultural myths of love/relationships/dating & what it means to watch and empower others behaving in monstrous ways 👀
a person wearing sunglasses and a beige hat that says “FRIEND OF DEATH” holds up a tarot card, The Devil (XV). They are making a playful grimace, sticking their tongue out slightly. The card illustration shows two puppet-like figures controlled by large hands above them, with a red pentagram at the center. A text graphic with a decorative gold flourish at the top and bottom reads: “‘The Devil shows us where we feel trapped. It especially reveals situations where our feelings might not match the facts. But there’s such humanity in this experience; such an innocent desire to break free, to be happy, to be loved. And The Devil sure is a character we love. For better, and for worse. Our beloved tricksters and trappers encourage us to stray from the light. They invite us to be bad; to have fun, maybe, but also to be damned.’ –Rebecca ‘Bee’ Scolnick.”
August 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Welcoming back @thewordwitch.bsky.social to the Rebis as a contributor! They wrote an incredible essay about The Devil & transgender liberation that we can't wait for you to read. Here they share thoughts about their experience starting testosterone and how the Devil has supported their journey. 🤍
Person with short blonde hair and glasses holding a Tarot card labeled "The Devil." They wear a black shirt and have tattoos. Bright, indoor setting. Inspirational quote on embracing liberation and personal exploration from The Devil card, emphasizing courage in overcoming societal norms.
August 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Meet you at the place where light & shadow intersect 🕯️

quote by Rebis contributor and tarot scholar Laetitia Barbier
A quote from Laetitia Barbier on The Devil archetype
August 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Meet @sheainthecatskills.com, a queer artist, tarotist, intuition facilitator, organizer and contemplative. We are so excited to be publishing their work. For The Devil issue, shea wrote a personal essay titled "On Liberating My Wild Devotion" about their relationship to eroticism & the male gaze ❤️‍🔥
A person with short dark hair, wearing teal sunglasses, a black face mask, and a red-and-black checkered flannel shirt, stands against a red wooden wall. They are holding up a tarot card with the illustration of "XV The Devil," showing a horned figure with wings and two smaller figures. The person wears layered necklaces and a chunky silver ring. A cream-colored background with a gold decorative flourish at the top and a thin gold border. The text reads: "So much of my suffering in this life has stemmed from shame, from wanting to be a good person, as opposed to a true person, or a whole person. My process of liberating my vitality and power in this life has meant being willing to acknowledge my real feelings, desires, needs and limits. To divest from the ways I’ve betrayed myself in order to be seen as good or right or correct. To be willing to be a monster in someone else’s story.” –shea in the catskills At the bottom center is a small black-and-gold logo with interlocking shapes.
August 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Welcoming @thelexhesperus.bsky.social back as a contributor! Lex is a queer witch, mystic, writer & devotee of the sensual, radical, & erotic. His gorgeous poem for The Devil, "For An Ancestor & A Comrade," closes out this issue. Can't wait for you to experience it. Coming soon this fall!
Person lying on a quilted blanket with tousled hair, glasses, and a necklace with a blue pendant. A tarot card, The Devil, rests beside them. Quote on a cream background with a gold border. It discusses the power of sacrilege and The Devil card as a protective reclamation. The quote is attributed to Lex Hesperus.
August 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Today we're featuring return Rebis contributor @tehlorkay.bsky.social, the award-winning transgender author. Tehlor wrote an erotic short story titled "In Chains," which thrusts us into a scene exploring dominance and the freedom of pain. Can't wait for y'all to read it. 🥵 ⛓️ ❤️‍🔥
Person in a gray shirt holds up a tarot card featuring a basket of strawberries against a wooden background. A quote by Tehlor Mejia discusses power, pleasure, consent, and the balance between hedonism and oppression, set on a white background with gold accents and decorative lines.
August 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Today we're featuring artist Shannon Brigid, a photographer who's currently working on a photobook that captures a series of experiences along her sun line in astrocartography. Her Polaroids will appear in the upcoming issue of The Rebis.
Person outdoors holding up the Devil tarot card (XV) from Nicoletta Ceccoli’s deck, with sunlight streaming through trees in the background. Quote card with text by Shannon Brigid about the Devil tarot card, describing how it became a teacher and companion through shadow work.
August 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Excited to introduce Duna Haller (from Madrid, Spain!) to our readers.

For The Devil, Duna wrote an article titled "Punk, Saturn, Drugs, + Shouting in the Face of Power," an exploration of punk music, addiction, Saturn returns & how rebellion, like healing, only matters in relation to others.⁠
A person with shoulder-length dark hair, red and silver eyeshadow, and red lipstick gazes downward while holding two tarot cards. The card in front is “XV. The Devil,” illustrated in pink, red, and yellow tones, showing a central figure with a goat head and smaller figures bound below. Behind it is “VI. The Lovers,” featuring two figures in profile surrounded by flowers and a glowing sun. The person wears a black textured top and is posed against a neutral background. A graphic with a centered quote framed by a thin gold border and decorative gold flourishes at the top and bottom. The quote reads: “I've always had The Devil appear to me as a deeply relational card—even when the relationship is with ourselves. The addictions that keep us within earthly desires also make us aware of our soil, our bonds, and the ways we avoid or embrace presence. It's for that reason that the numerology, astrological, and symbolic relationship between The Devil and The Lovers fascinates me.” –Duna Haller. At the bottom is a stylized black-and-gold “R” logo.
August 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Contributor spotlight: @kjnaum.bsky.social is a returning writer for The Rebis: The Devil! They wrote a non-fiction piece titled "Light-Bringers," which discusses knowledge, truth, fascism, liberation, and the ways we occupy two contradictory states at the same time. Can't wait for y'all to read it!
A person with short curly hair smiles while holding a tarot card in a sunny park. They're wearing a yellow crocheted top, surrounded by lush green trees. Text excerpt on a textured white background with a thin gold border. The quote, attributed to KJ Naum, explores interpretations of "The Devil" and challenges definitions of good and evil. An ornate gold emblem decorates the top, and a stylized "R" logo is at the bottom. Tone: reflective and provocative.
August 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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"The Devil is that which binds us to each other. It is the pain we feel with one another, the pain we bestow on one another. But that pain—that suffering—is also proof that we are responsible to one another. That we are alive with each other.

-Sean Koa Seu, upcoming Rebis contributor
A person stands outside holding up a Tarot card—Le Diable (The Devil)—from the Marseille deck, partially covering their face. The card shows a horned, winged devil figure with two smaller chained figures below. A quote by Sean Koa Seu in black serif font on a light background with a gold border and decorative quotation mark. The text explores The Devil card as a symbol of shared pain and responsibility, linking global and local injustices, and ends with “Free Palestine.”
August 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Our contributor series continues with @jmwaggoner.bsky.social —author, Pagan priestess & cofounder of Way of the Weaver. For The Rebis: The Devil, she offers “Praying the Devil’s Rosary,” an essay reclaiming the hidden & repressed through ritual.
Jamie Waggoner smiles while holding up The Devil tarot card. She wears a “Spooky Library” shirt and stands in front of a portrait of a bearded man, representing Hades. A quote by Jamie Waggoner on a cream background with a gold border and embellishment. She describes being a practicing witch for 25+ years, a priestess of Hades, and reflects on the misunderstood overlap between Hades and the Devil, emphasizing their shared chthonic wisdom and embodiment.
August 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM