Q&A with Joy: Yes or No Tarot Questions
Someone who’s been following my blog for awhile contacted me with a question about yes or no tarot questions. In this Q&A with Joy, I share the pros and cons of yes or no tarot questions and provide a few…
Category Best Practices for Accurate Tarot Readings
Q&A with Joy: Rephrasing Questions on Health and Other People
The Tarot Taboos: Reading on Health and Other People Reading on health and other people are two very common questions. And every reader’s Statement of Ethics says they will not read on these topics. But reading for clients includes looking…
Do Your First Tarot Reading
Are You Ready to Do Your First Tarot Reading? it’s Easy with My Quick Start Tarot Guide! After teaching tarot for twenty-eight years, I asked myself, “What is the one thing I would say to a brand-new tarot reader?” If…
How To Shuffle Tarot Cards
Before performing a tarot reading, it’s important to randomize the cards. The standard practice for randomizing a deck is shuffling the cards. But with tarot cards, shuffling can be awkward when the deck’s too big. Fortunately, there are a variety…
Be the Best Reader for You: Tips for Reading Tarot for Yourself
Be The only reader You’ll ever need Follow these tips for reading tarot for yourself, work through your own reading using the free downloadable workbook, and discover that you’re the best reader for you! I first presented this for the…
Tarot Easter Egg Hunt
The Vernal Equinox Tarot Blog Hop For this Tarot Blog Hop, Bonnie of Quiet Bonnie asked us, “What eggs are you called to develop and place for others to find?” Tarot readings can be Easter egg hunts. As we look…
When Tarot Readings Are Wrong
Eleven Reasons Tarot Readings Go Wrong And How To Get Them Right According to the cards, you should have gotten that job, he would have called, and that obnoxious coworker kept her mouth shut. Well, that turned out wrong. Why…
Keeping It Real: Getting Practical Answers from the Tarot
Do your tarot readings always tell you you’re in a period of transformation? That you need to seek balance? Do they inspire you to embrace your truth and reveal your higher self in an ongoing unfolding evolution? Sheesh. Some questions…
Q&A with Joy: Is Tarot Always Right?
Finding a tarot reader who is accurate makes life easier. But every once in a while even the best reader misses something. Maybe they’re having a bad day. But also consider what you are bringing to the table. Is tarot…
Cha-ching! Money in the Cards
What Cards in the Tarot Represent Money? Rolling in the dough! Today’s post explores themes of wealth, abundance, and money in the cards. To that end, let’s consider cards that tarot readers love to see turn up when asking about…
Good and Bad in Tarot
Good and Bad in Tarot Imagine asking the tarot to advise you on staying in your cushy but unappreciated corporate job or leaving to run your own business. Leave? Five of Coins: A disheveled woman wrapped in a ragged blanket…
Good Cards for Something Bad
Good Cards for Something Bad About five years ago I did a reading for a woman who asked about starting a business. She told me she had just found the perfect storefront to lease. It was in the fall, maybe…
The Two Most Important Words in a Tarot Reading
A young couple came in for a reading on a big upcoming change. The first three cards that turned up were Death, the Ten of Swords, and the Nine of Swords. Although I didn’t see it immediately, these difficult cards…
Best Practices for Accurate Tarot Readings: Read the Cards as They Fall
In my beginning tarot class we did a sample reading for a young adult who asked what action to take to bring in a romantic relationship. We used a simple three card spread with the following positions: Where you are…
Love in the Cards #3: Marriage
To celebrate Valentine’s Day this month, I’ll be writing on themes of love, passion, and marriage in the cards. For each weekly post, I’ve chosen some of my favorite cards that speak to each topic. Love: The Lovers, 2 of Cups,…
Love in the Cards #2: Passion
To celebrate Valentine’s Day this month, I’ll be writing on themes of love, passion, and marriage in the cards. For each weekly post, I’ve chosen some of my favorite cards that speak to each topic. Love: The Lovers, 2 of…
Love in the Cards
What cards in the tarot represent love? To celebrate Valentine’s Day this month, I’ll be writing on themes of love, passion, and marriage in the cards. For each weekly post, I’ve chosen some of my favorite cards that speak to each…
Overcoming Five Common Tarot Reading Frustrations #5: Spreads
Welcome to the fifth and final installment of my weekly series on overcoming common tarot frustrations, problems that the members of a meetup group I visited had expressed to me. The participants described their tarot holdups as: Reading clearly for…
Symbolism in the Tarot
Often tarot teaching focuses on specific symbols in the cards and what they mean. Certainly, the particulars of historical usage of a common symbol in religious iconography, alchemical woodcuts, Renaissance art, or other divination symbol systems can enlighten us to…
Using Tarot for Better Relationships
Welcome to the Tarot Professionals Blog Hop! Their intention is to host a monthly blog hop that is an exclusive forum for their members to share their tarot and cartomantic blogs and build community through writing on a common theme or…