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Getting Ready to Read Tarot: Three Things to Consider

Most of tarot advice focuses on card meanings. And, like, duh! Card meanings are important!

Yet in my 24 years of reading, and 14 years of professional practice, I have not found card meanings to be the deciding factor in a safe and accurate reading.

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"What Tarot Card Represents Me?" is Only the First Question

Fascism has risen. War is here. Cost of living is through the roof and we own nothing.

Like, at this point, why the fuck are we still using tarot like an individualist consumer product?

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Understanding Tarot’s Acolyte Cards

At base, the acolyte cards demystify a power struggle.

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The Joker and The Dogs

The Joker is a trickster, neither good nor evil. The Joker is the chaotic beauty and terror of living on earth. Of living on earth in a body.

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TL;DR Tarot Card Meanings (Yes, All 78)

The Modern Phrasal approach is a novel method of learning tarot. It queers older card meanings by applying them to a wider context of human life. Each phrase is built for modern concerns, attention spans, and situations.

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How to Get Started with a New Deck of Tarot Cards

So you've brought home your first deck of tarot cards. Congratulations!

Now what?

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How (and Why) to Read Reversed Tarot Cards

Consider this your (short!) introduction to reading the upside-downies, or reversals, whatever. Regardless of what you call them, here's some strategies for making sense of them.

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Tarot for Writers

Creativity is an intuitive process. Creativity is a spiritual process.

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Working Playing Cards: Clubs & Spades

Just try to remember the spiritual aspects of endings and choices, and you’ll make peace with the Spades.

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Working Playing Cards: Hearts & Diamonds

There are important differences between the suits in tarot and those in playing cards. Those differences are essential to understanding these tools.

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Working Playing Cards to Get What You Want

Playing cards can be used as petitions or as an energy enhancer under a candle, but there are so many other ways to use tarot and playing cards in conjure and spellwork. Here’s a couple things you should know before getting started that can make your work more efficient and powerful