I first learned about Year Cards while reading Mary K. Greer's Tarot for Your Self. A Year Card represents "the tests, lessons, and exeperiences youwill go thorugh this year" (p. 35). Greer's method for calculating a Year Card is to add birth month, birth day, and current year as follows: Birth Month 01 Birth Day … Continue reading Calculating Your Year Card →

I posted this spread on my Instagram account quite a while ago, but I wanted to share a bit about its creation. Sometimes I spend days creating a spread, but this happened at the spur of the moment while doing a client reading. The client asked for a general reading, but as often happens, specific … Continue reading You Can Control The Change: A Roadmap for Action →

Tarot clients often ask questions that involve a time element. I know of several methods to determine timing from the Tarot. Usually I can draw a card and read it intuitively. For example, a two card with a moon on it might mean two months, depending on the context of the question and the spread. … Continue reading First Throw Away The Book. Or Not. →

Not long after I acquired my copy of the Sabbath Tarot, Allan Spiers announced that he planned a Lenormad deck. Although I don't often use Lenormand cards, I had been very impressed by the Sabbath Tarot and the care and attention that had gone into its creation. I decided to support the development and production … Continue reading A Closer Look at The Sabbath Lenormand →

At the beginning of the year a friend of mine invited me to join a private Facebook group for cartomancers. There was a lot of buzz on the site about a new book coming out, Siren Hand’s The Woven Wisdom: Bibliomancy and Card Guide (2020, Siren & Samsara Publishing) and, by extension, the Woven Wisdom … Continue reading A Closer Look at The Woven Wisdom Oracle →

I followed St. Jinx on Tumblr and now follow him on Instagram, so I looked forward to the release of his first deck, the St. Jinx Arcana. It followed the Rider Waite Smith pattern and symbolism closely, and the art was great. The only issue I had with St. Jinx's choices for the deck was … Continue reading A Closer Look at The Updated St. Jinx Arcana →

Arwen Lynch’s Mapping the Hero’s Journey with Tarot: 33 days to Finish Your Book showed up in my mailbox unannounced. My mother sent it as a “just because” present—she knew I was putting together a workshop on Tarot and storytelling and thought this book might interest me. Telling stories; Hero’s Journey; what could be a … Continue reading A Review of “Mapping the Hero’s Journey with Tarot” →

Months ago I first started seeing pictures of Allan Spiers' The Sabbath Tarot pop up on Instagram accounts I follow. The masculinity and the play of light and dark in Spiers’ images intrigued me. I started following @thesabbathtarot on Instagram, and looked at Spiers’ The Sabbath Project website. I hesitated to purchase the deck because … Continue reading A Closer Look at The Sabbath Tarot →

On the left my first deck, The Tarot (AKA The Hoi Polloi Tarot (c) 1972, Hoi Polloi, Inc. On the right, The Rider Tarot Deck (AKA the Rider-Waite, the Rider-Waite-Smith, and the Waite-Smith Tarot) (c) 1971, U.S. Games Systems, Inc. When I was growing up our choices of Tarot decks were primarily limited to the … Continue reading Telling Our Stories with An Imperfect Tool →