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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Spiritual Sovereignty: Liberation is a Spiritual Practice

Spiritual sovereignty helps us maintain purpose-driven autonomy despite colonizing forces that work to create god for us in their own image.

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Spectral Technologies 101

One thing my students in the newly renamed Intuitive Strategies Community know is that the best reader is a safe reader.

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Strength: Boundaries & Protection

Strength wants us to take responsibility for the cycles that keep us non-consensually bound.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Devil: The Expansionist

The Devil is an avatar for capitalism.

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Justice: “White Man’s Paperwork”

No one actually believes tarot's Justice card means real justice.

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Working for Liberation, Reading Tarot

You can't read tarot for the purpose of liberation without addressing tarot's relationship to power.

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The Hierophant: The Gatekeeper

Wisdom keepers are a through line between the past and the future.

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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.

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The Tower Comes to Destroy

A passive reading of The Tower reinforces the narrative that god loves some people more than others.

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The Right to Free Thought: Rereading Tarot's Swords

Swords can cut away what doesn't serve us.

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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.

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More than Money: Rereading Tarot's Pentacles

It's true that Pentacles are often where money resides in a quotidian way. Yet the Pentacles speak to more than money, and certainly more than wealth.