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Living in Our Feelings: Rereading Tarot's Cups
To embrace tarot's Cups, we must embrace our emotions and their wisdom.
Queering Tarot’s Court Cards
Some modern decks have addressed this by creating new, genderless terms for them. Names like "The Mentor" and "The Apprentice" pervade.
While I admire the creativity of such decks, the historical and social context of gender are hard to erase. Names change, but archetypes are what define tarot and those remain.
The Minor Arcana: Radicalizing Daily Life
The way to harness the power of the Minor Arcana is to stay present with the boring parts of our existence. This is because the evaluation of daily life helps us find opportunities to live freer.
Queering Tarot, Finding Ourselves
Tarot is canonically queer, but that doesn't mean such influences aren't controversial.
5 Pillars of Tarot for Liberation
Tarot for liberation is a call to integrate and respect the role of intuition in movements for justice.
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.
How to Read Tarot for Yourself
Reading tarot for yourself brings up issues of self-trust. This is even more stressful when we're trying to build our intuition.
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.
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.