Be Sure to Leave Room in Your Luggage for Tarot Decks! “How many decks should I take with me?” A year or two ago, I was reading for a client who was preparing for a retreat that would last several…
Create an Equinox Password and Create Your Bountiful Harvest Our theme for the fall equinox Tarot Blog Hop is Bountiful Harvest. Raine of Tarot of Change suggested it and Jay of Jay’s Mystic Blog is hosting the master list. So,…
“Tarot and Astrology Chat” Links and References I had a great time talking with Chris Brennan of The Astrology Podcast while I was in Denver last month. We explored a wide-ranging variety of topics centering around and launching from a…
Transform Third-class Trash Into First-Rate Tarot Art Today’s assignment for the Tarot Blog Hop is to create a tarot card or two or three from your junk mail! As the wrangler, my suggestion was to stick to what comes through…
I love staring at tarot cards. I can gaze at a card a million times and still find something new in it. Last night, I was looking at cards with friends. As I contemplated the Ten of Wands, I saw…
Tarot Blog Hop, or To Be Honest For this unofficial Tarot Blog Hop, our beloved wrangler Jay Cassels proposed we explore our groups’s acronym, TBH. Most people recognize the letters TBH as the idiom, “To Be Honest.” Jay invited us…
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…
The Stories we Know Bring Our Tarot Readings to Life Wrangler Jay Cassels of Jay’s Mystic Blog invited us to explore the interesting topic of “unseen traditions.” I wasn’t sure where to take the topic, but a three-card spread gave…
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…
Astrological Correspondences of the Tarot Pages I was having lunch with a friend the other day and he asked me about the Pages in the tarot. He wanted to know if they had an astrological correspondence. Our discussion led to…
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…
Spring 2022 Tarot Card Astrology: Seven Of Pentacles Saturn won’t be in Taurus until 2028, and won’t enter the third decan of that sign until June 2029. A retrograde will keep it in roughly that area of the zodiac for…
Make Decisions with the Tarot’s Lovers and Devil Cards Decisions are the worst. Most people start with a pro and con list, but seriously, if it were that easy you would have already made the decision. You know what’s smart.…
Spring 2022 Tarot Card Astrology: Six Of Pentacles There’s a new moon in Taurus on April 30, at 1:28 p.m. This lunation occurs in the second decan of that sign, the face ruled by the Moon. The Moon will pass…
Spring 2022 Tarot Card Astrology: Five of Pentacles Mercury zips through the first decan of Taurus between April 11 and 16. The Five of Pentacles is an interesting illustration of the contrary energies of the fleet-footed god and the heavy,…
Drowned in Sleep: Tarot Spreads for Exploring the Unconscious Side of Creativity Tomorrow, April 12, 2022, the Jupiter-Neptune conjunction goes exact in the sign of Pisces. This past Saturday, in the “Drowned in Sleep” presentation for the Greater Seattle Tarot…
Hear the Voice of Silence The Cube of Space is a three-dimensional tarot tableau, a specific arrangement of the cards. Contemplation of this model reveals great insight into the tarot. But more than that, the Cube of Space is a…
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…
Spring 2022 Tarot Card Astrology: Nine Of Cups Jupiter entered the middle decan of Pisces on February 12, and voyages through that section of the zodiac for six weeks. The tarot’s Nine of Cups captures this celestial energy. In this…
Tarot Blog Hop: Short Form Tarot Interpretations As the wrangler of today’s hop, I proposed the topic: Short Form Tarot Interpretations. The idea is to find the essence, the kernel, the seed of meaning for a tarot card, while expressing…
