The Portland Tarot is a 23 card Major Arcana deck (the additional card is entitled the Weird, and has been redesigned from the version included in the original deck). Envisioned by Jamie Morris, co-writer of the LWB, the Weird represents the “space between spaces”, the moments when all has dissolved and has yet to re-gel and possibilities whip in the wind around you. In the version included in this second edition, we see deck creator Theresa Pridemore being led by an elephant, wearing a garland of roses (Portland is, after all, the City of Roses!), up the incline of the St. John’s Bridge. They are headed towards a mysterious door, through which exists all of the possibilities that Theresa can imagine … and, more importantly, those that she cannot! (From the LWB.) Note the symbolic messengers flying through the sky.
The three bridge cards that are included show the bridges on one side of the card, with focus words on the reverse side. The Fremont Bridge focuses on “Your Daily Commute”, the Vista Bridge on “Difficult Journeys”, and the St. John’s Bridge on “An Inspiring View”.