Court cards are killer, there’s no way around it. Every tarot reader hates court cards because they’re nearly impossible to read. If you pull one or two, you can find a way to make them make sense, but when you pull five in a single reading (as I have done many, many times) you can’t help but wonder what the hell to do with them.
The language of the tarot and the language of dreams are one and the same. I once had a dream that I was in a quiet apartment in Paris, looking through its tiny window at the Eiffel Tower glittering against the black night. There was nothing else happening in the dream, no rustling around for a lost earring or a stranger knocking at the door.
Now, more than ever, self-care is essential. When we think of self-care we still think of massages, yoga classes, and margaritas after work, but the true meaning self-care is in its name: it is the care-taking of the self—spiritually, emotionally, and somatically, in whatever way you need. Maybe right now self-care looks like calling your doctor, or having an uncomfortable conversation with your partner, or
Corona is the Latin word for crown. When I first learned this I could feel my scorpio senses tingling, confirming my suspicion that the coronavirus pandemic had several spiritual lessons to teach. Later that day I attended a yoga class—the last before the studio decided to shut down—and the teacher announced that the focus would be on the crown chakra, the gateway of higher consciousness
I first met the Divine Feminine in a book. It was Goethe’s Faust, and after hundreds of pages of dense, bewildering story about the quest for power and knowledge, I had little hope for a good ending. But then I read its final two lines, and they changed my life: “The Eternal Feminine draws us onward.” I know some people insist that the Divine Feminine
When you pose a question for the tarot, have you ever wondered who you’re asking? Yes, it’s the reader who’s spreading out the cards, or a friend, or yourself, but who is it that’s offering an answer? Maybe you believe it’s your “spirit guides”, the unknowable, undefinable energetic emissaries that funnel messages to us from the Universe. Or perhaps you assume it’s the wisdom of
The number one request I get from tarot newbies is (surprisingly!) not for a free card pull, but a recommended reading list. And somehow, each time I’m asked for it I get a little flustered, a little rambly, because I’ve never formally compiled said list. In fact, I barely remember what I read all those years ago. So I’ve finally done the work, rehashed my
So you’ve prepared for your reading like a pro, found the right reader, and had a great reading—but the work’s not done just yet. One of the most common oversights of tarot querents is to leave the sacred space of a reading and jump immediately back into the routine of their lives. They make lots of internal room for revelations during the reading itself, but
When you book a tarot reading you likely get that thrill of magic, eagerness for the luxurious specialness that awaits you in that room (or Skype chat or phone call), when all the tingly mysteries of the universe will spill themselves into the cards that the reader will perfectly pull, all for you and you’re precious life. But as beautiful as that feeling is, getting
When I tell new people that I’m a tarot reader, typically their eyes light up, a smile jumps onto their faces, and they say something along the lines of, “I’ve always wanted to get a reading!” The next thing they say is that they probably never will, though. They’re too frightened of bad news, or feel weird about telling a stranger their secrets, or nervous