“Think of a question, but don’t tell me what it is,” Pamela Love instructs me via Zoom. She’s in Los Angeles, while I’m in New York, and the intention is that we are going to meet on some astral plane as she reads my Tarot—to tap, as Love puts it, “into your energy and work it into the cards.” We’re doing a three-card pull using The Infinite Door, a new Tarot deck of Love’s own design in collaboration with the artist Krys Manieki. From her earliest days, Love’s jewelry—talismanic, spiritual, mystical—was inspired by her belief that it would hold some deeper connection with its wearer beyond mere embellishment, and having her own Tarot deck is similarly attuned to that notion.
Love reads her own cards regularly, stressing that the exercise is not and has never been about, she says, “fortun