Trickster’s Journey is a tarot deck which draws from the 16th century Chinese novel Journey to the West, Chinese mythology, and Buddhist iconography, in order to reimagine the story of enlightenment symbolized in tarot.

The journeys represented in both Journey to the West and the structure of the tarot closely mirror each other: the respective protagonist figures of the Fool and the Monkey undergo a rich sequence of experiences, struggle, ego death, wanderings and wonderings that lead them to revelation and completion. Trickster’s Journey engages in a series of translations based on these parallel arcs.