Finding myself.
Creating room for you.

Crowned & Guided grew from a journey of becoming my own.

I’m Paris, and this brand began as I explored my spiritual journey, my sense of self, and the voice within me that I was learning to trust. Finding myself meant making room for questions: Who am I when I let myself be fully seen? What do I value? What helps me feel connected to my own light?

Tarot gave those questions a language of images, symbols, and reflection. It offered a place to slow down, notice what I was carrying, and consider the choices in front of me. That experience inspired me to create a deck that could feel personal and welcoming to someone beginning their own journey.

The vision became Crowned & Guided: beauty with meaning, reflection with room to breathe, and a reminder that you can be a work in progress while still being worthy of care. Every crown, star, and moment of light belongs to a world where becoming yourself is something to celebrate.

This is the beginning of something I want to grow with intention. The deck comes first, and the heart behind it will carry through every chapter: helping people feel seen, curious, and a little more connected to themselves.

You deserve to recognize yourself in the beauty.

I wanted to create a spiritual space where people of color, LGBTQIA+ people, and anyone exploring their identity could feel welcome. Black beauty is at the heart of the imagery, with room for different complexions, bodies, ages, hairstyles, and expressions of gender.

Sexuality, culture, and self-expression deserve to be met with respect. Masculinity can hold softness. Femininity can hold strength. A person’s worth does not depend on fitting one familiar picture of who they are supposed to be.

Crowned & Guided is being built with that freedom in mind. Whether tarot is part of your spiritual practice or simply a way to reflect, there is room for your background, your questions, your relationships, and your own way of making meaning.

The world I want to build welcomes people across races, cultures, ages, body types, abilities, sexualities, and expressions of gender. Queer, trans, nonbinary, questioning, or simply finding your own language for yourself: you should not have to explain away a part of who you are to belong.

You may be beginning a spiritual journey, returning to one, following a faith, or approaching tarot through art and curiosity. You may feel certain of yourself or be working out what comes next. There is room for that, too. You do not need to become someone else before you begin.

My hope is that you see more than a beautiful card. I hope you feel an invitation to show up as yourself, with your own voice, your own story, and your own way of finding light.

Before there was a deck, there was a question: what would it feel like to trust the person I was becoming?

I created Crowned & Guided while learning to hear myself more clearly. My spiritual journey has been a process of paying attention: to the questions I kept returning to, the parts of myself asking for room, and the difference between the life I could perform and the life I could actually feel connected to.

Finding myself has meant allowing more than one truth to exist at once. I can be strong and still need tenderness. I can have a vision and still be learning the way forward. I can love beauty and want something meaningful beneath it. I wanted this collection to hold that same depth: something you can admire, then sit with.

As an Aquarius and a Life Path 7, I connect with curiosity, originality, and the desire to look beneath the surface. Those are symbolic parts of how I understand myself. They remind me to ask another question, follow an unfamiliar idea, and leave space for discovery.

Representation lives inside that vision. I want Black beauty and people of color to be seen with richness and possibility. I want LGBTQIA+ people, different sexualities, gender expressions, bodies, and backgrounds to feel welcome without needing to make themselves smaller. There is room for softness, power, confidence, mystery, and all the ways a person can become.

That is why the details matter to me. The gaze of a figure, the crown in a reflection, an animal at someone’s side, the light beyond a doorway: I want the imagery to give you something to notice before you ever reach for a definition. The companion book will help you go deeper, gently, one card at a time.

My hope is that you leave this space a little more curious about your own voice. That you let yourself begin before you feel perfectly ready. That you remember you can carry a crown without carrying everything alone.

Thank you for meeting me at the beginning. I am putting care into this world because I believe the people who enter it deserve to feel that care.

With love and intention,
Paris