The golden shadow

The golden shadow

I just finished reading Tarot Celebrations by Geraldine Amaral & Nancy Brady Cunningham, which caught my eye because it approaches tarot with a Jungian perspective. It’s a decent intro to psychoanalyst Carl Jung and how his ideas can apply to a tarot practice. I...
dark, light, gift: a winter solstice spread

dark, light, gift: a winter solstice spread

The framework for a simple tarot spread came to me in the shower today (as interesting ideas often do). It’s a day late but this is somewhat solstice themed, and also more broadly winter themed. In the past I’ve been known to take on longer, more complex spreads...

Gratitarot: an old concept & a new spread

Many moons ago (probably like 2015?) I hosted a community event on Instagram based on a concept I came up with called Gratitarot. The idea is very simple. Gratitude + tarot = gratitarot. In its purest form, to practice gratitarot you simply draw one card and use it as...
Tarot, take me home

Tarot, take me home

The Forest of Souls by Rachel Pollack immediately became one of my favorite tarot books when I read it earlier this year. There are so many wonderful gems, my copy is adorned with underlines and notes. Lately I keep thinking about a passage where Rachel describes...
An unnerving storm

An unnerving storm

Sharing directly from your heart isn’t always calm, clear and articulate. I want it to be. But sometimes sharing directly from your heart is an unnerving storm. Mary K Greer has this simple but wonderful method for writing from the heart with tarot. I’ve done it...