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Surviving Capitalism with the Ace of Pentacles
Here's how to activate the Ace of Pentacles to find some stability in a soul sucking world.
Six of Cups: A Stateless World is Probable
There's nothing wrong with spiritual strategies for self-improvement. But when it stops there, it might as well be playing sports, or doing skincare, or a Shein haul.
A commodity is a commodity. If it makes you feel superior to others instead of in service to your community, then it's bullshit.
The Ace of Hearts :: The Light
Like a kiss, the Ace of Hearts is a catalyst.
It's among the most blessed cards in cartomancy.
Hearts are the suit of the priest class and human desires. Hearts emphasize the turns of fate around our emotional lives.
Cartomancy as Ancestral Citation
The truth is I've always been able to read without them. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.
Its a mark of the lineage. A long conversation between the dead and the living. To work the cards is to remember those who worked the cards.
When you can’t fight back, your body keeps on fighting
Lenormand’s Whip and a spiritual theory on two decades of autoimmunity.
Tarot’s The World and Kamala Harris
Tarot's World card bring us success, true success, far more lasting than the wins of The Chariot.
Yet they never feel as sweet as The Chariot in the moment, because The World requires you to keep your head down a long time.
Temperance: Spiritual Ableism, Healing, and Wholeness
The way we talk about healing in spiritual spaces can be fucked up! At best, it's vague and sprawling. At worst, its just straight up ableism.
Spectral Technologies 101
One thing my students in the newly renamed Intuitive Strategies Community know is that the best reader is a safe reader.
Strength: Boundaries & Protection
Strength wants us to take responsibility for the cycles that keep us non-consensually bound.
The Moon: Anxiety, Intuition, Tarot, and Ableism
"How do I tell the difference between anxiety and intuition" is the question I'm asked most as a tarot teacher.
It's an important one, and can often trace its roots back to a societal trauma: the conflation of spiritual gifts and madness.
The Moon is a manifestation of that conflation.
The Sun: Painful, Perfect Clarity
Have you ever been so depressed, hungover, or deep in grief that you’ve been like “fuck the sun?” Yeah, same.
How to Move as Tarot’s Emperor
Those who live under the Emperor's boot have every right to hate this archetype. Hating tarot's Emperor makes sense.
Intuitive Strategies for Feeling Free
The opposite of feeling used up, drained, and burnt out is feeling free. There is nothing more intuitive than feeling free.
Embodying Tarot's Queen of Cups (Without Becoming a Total Doormat)
Over time, living beings can come to rely on the Queen of Cups' giving nature. This doesn't always mean they value it, or reciprocate.
The Devil: The Expansionist
The Devil is an avatar for capitalism.
Justice: “White Man’s Paperwork”
No one actually believes tarot's Justice card means real justice.
Working for Liberation, Reading Tarot
You can't read tarot for the purpose of liberation without addressing tarot's relationship to power.
The Hierophant: The Gatekeeper
Wisdom keepers are a through line between the past and the future.
Judgement: Do You Want A Revolution?
Judgement asks us to make a choice that will change our lives. Judgement asks us to take our fate in our own hands, then live with the consequences.
The Tower Comes to Destroy
A passive reading of The Tower reinforces the narrative that god loves some people more than others.