Commune, Communicate, Commemorate
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Joy Vernon
Joy Vernon is widely recognized as an expert tarot teacher and respected community leader. With over twenty-five years’ experience teaching energetic and esoteric modalities, Joy brings expertise and practiced familiarity to her specialty of esoteric tarot, which layers astrological and qabalistic symbolism onto the traditional tarot structure. Under her leadership, the Denver Tarot Meetup grew into one of the largest and most active tarot-specific meetups in the world. Now Joy runs the Greater Seattle Tarot Meetup. Joy works as a tarot reader, astrologer, and teacher in Burien, Washington. To learn more, please visit JoyVernon.com.
Q&A with Joy: Using the Hebrew Letters in Tarot Divination
A student of the Western Mystery Tradition contacted me asking how the Hebrew letters and their correspondence to the tarot Major Arcana can be used in doing readings. Greetings Joy, Do you use the Hebrew letters of the 22 Major…
Using Tarot to Create a Money Chant
Last night at the Denver Tarot Meetup, DTM Co-Organizer and Tarot Social South Host Linda Bean led us in a wonderful exploration of Paul Foster Case’s correspondences of the musical scale to the tarot cards. After several enlightening exercises, Linda…
Top Ten Places to Find a Lost Tarot Card
There’s nothing like that feeling–both urgent and sinking at the same time–when you flip through a tarot deck trying to locate a particular card and it’s not there. You go through again; you probably just missed it. Not there. Third…
TBH Maninni Deck
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Enterprising Insights: Testimonials
I’ve been working long hours the past couple of weeks developing a new website. My current one was developed in 2009 using FrontPage, an old MS Office program that is no longer supported. And even though my site looks great on…
Golden Dawn Cheat-Sheet Tarot Decks
One of the classes I teach is Esoteric Tarot–reading tarot based on the astrological and qabalistic correspondences as systematized in Book T by Samuel MacGregor Mathers. Each year we are on a mission to find the perfect “cheat-sheet” deck–a deck…
How to Retire a Tarot Deck
Worn. Warped. Dog-eared. Sticky. After heavy use, a deck eventually succumbs to age and grows too damaged to read with. But an elder deck sometimes seems too wise with too many years of experience to just toss aside for a…
Sol in the Small Cards
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The Hopscotch Spread
The Hopscotch Spread is a fun, qabalistically based tarot spread that can provide insight and guidance in working towards a particular goal. Hopscotch Spread Instructions Focus on a question or issue. Shuffle and lay out 10 cards face down according to the pattern…
Ten Steps that Will Guarantee a Great Tarot Reading, Part 2
6. Be open and curious. Don’t close yourself down energetically or physically. Turning away from your reader, crossing your arms and legs, or looking down or away are all common ways people close themselves off from their reader using their physical…
The Hierophant
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Joy’s Lecture on Insurance for Tarot Readers and Reiki Practitioners
If you have questions about insurance for tarot and Reiki, here are some recommendations and resources. I also share which company I currently use! I updated this article in July 2023, editing for clarity, optimizing for Google search, modernizing, and…
Ten Steps that Will Guarantee a Great Tarot Reading, Part 1
1. Take it seriously. Tarot readings really aren’t for entertainment only. In some states, it’s legally required that tarot readers use the disclaimer “For entertainment purposes only.” Even readers who are located where such disclaimers are not compulsory often put…
Q&A with Joy: The Questionless Querent
A colleague of mine who is a tarot reader emailed me with a couple questions recently. “What do you do about a client who just asks a general ‘what do I need to know?’” “What about someone you read for but…
Dealing the Distasteful
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The Top Five Reasons TarotCon Denver is Going to be Awesome!
5. A Gorgeous Spiritual Center, not a Fluorescent Convention Center. TarotCon Denver will be held at the Althea Center for Engaged Spirituality. This amazing historic building was built in 1898 as a church of Divine Science, one of the denominations…
Is Tarot Ancient?
I presented this paper to the Denver Tarot Meetup a couple years ago. I started thinking about it yesterday, and even though it’s not my best scholarly work, and the topic could be expanded considerably, I think it’s interesting and…
Riker’s Journey: A Story of Change and Transformation
Riker Saw Himself as if Dead Guinan was wrong. After making extensive repairs, the Enterprise headed towards Wolf 359 to re-engage the Borg after it had assimilated Captain Picard. While they raced to the battle, Guinan confronted Riker in the…
Q&A with Joy: Reading About Other People
The following is a transcript, edited for clarity, of a discussion we had in my Magician’s Tools Intermediate Tarot Class this week. One class participant asked about reading about other people. Here’s her question and the discussion that followed: Class Participant: Can you do a tarot…