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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.
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.
The Right to Free Thought: Rereading Tarot's Swords
Swords can cut away what doesn't serve us.
Living in Our Feelings: Rereading Tarot's Cups
To embrace tarot's Cups, we must embrace our emotions and their wisdom.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
Queering Tarot's Knights: Becoming Ourselves
The Knights are often where understanding of tarot's court cards break down.
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.
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.
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.