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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.

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Capitalism, Scarcity, and Tarot Love Readings

In leftist communities, the phrase "scarcity is a myth" is practically an article of faith.

One part self-help, two parts flat out lie, the belief that scarcity doesn't exist gets smeared across a range of scenarios.

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7 Ways to Work with Tarot to Find (and Keep) Your Next Job

Is your job search leaving you asleep on your keyboard? Do you spend meetings sneaky scrollin the Girlboss newsletter's help wanted ads? Have you given up on finding a job that doesn't suck, or at least suck less?

Hold on there, queermo. Have you consulted your deck?

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Queering Tarot's Queens: Reclaiming Our Labor

Tarot's Queens are an uncomfortable reminder of how far we haven't come. It's a discomfort that will exist until patriarchy is only a memory.

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Building Responsive Power: Queering Tarot's Kings

Tarot's Kings are the public face of power. But does that mean they're qualified to lead?

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Queering Tarot's Knights: Becoming Ourselves

The Knights are often where understanding of tarot's court cards break down.

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Make Yr Life: Queering Tarot's Pages

Do you remember the first time you went to a gay bar? Whether you knew it or not, you were having a page moment.

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Intuition for Queer Empaths

Queer empaths are everywhere: becoming overwhelmed by emotions that no one shared, bursting into tears, being suckered into complex emotional ordeals.

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Archetypal Reduction: The Empress, Beyoncé, and Capitalism

Archetypal reduction is when people and events get pigeonholed into a single archetype. This isn't ideal, because almost all of us embody more than one archetype.

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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.

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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.

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Queering Tarot, Finding Ourselves

Tarot is canonically queer, but that doesn't mean such influences aren't controversial.

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5 Pillars of Tarot for Liberation

Tarot for liberation is a call to integrate and respect the role of intuition in movements for justice.

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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.