Okay - over on the lovely lovely TABI forum* is a new study group dedicated to the amazing new Wildwood Tarot - there are a few of us over there having a little love affair and learning together as we discuss different cards. As well as individual...
An evening to myself, and a full moon? I couldn't resist seeking out a suitable spread, and came across this lovely one by Chanel Bayless. It's called 'What's Howlin'?', and it's based on figuring out the message you are communicating to the world...
Firstly - a big credit for this spread, which I found via Melia Suez's wonderful blog. Thank you Melia! xx Secondly - what and when is the 'dark moon' time? Also known as the "dead" Moon, this is the time when there is no solar reflection, leaving...
After much pondering about two-card readings, I treated myself last week to a new book - The Heart of the Tarot by Thompson, Mueller and Echolls. It's based around one two-card spread - the 'challenge' spread - as the very heart of the Celtic cros...
Lucky me - I got to do a reading for a friend last night! When you've got used to chuntering along in your own mind, interpreting the cards whichever way you damn well please, it's a totally different thing interpreting a set of cards for someone ...
A friend in a far-off land asked me for a reading. He texted me the question and the deck I should use. The question was: What does the coming year hold for me? Sheesh. I've never done one this big-feeling for someone else (and none at all for som...
Okay - so I wanted to test-drive the spread I came up on Sunday, with which is centred around understanding a situation in order to move it forward. I'm trying to get to know the Shadowscapes deck better so I used this. The reading was one of the ...
Cards can be paired in all sorts of ways - things in common, opposing ideas or forces, complementary ideas or forces, two neccessary characteristics in one situation... is interpreting two cards as a pair necessarily a two-card reading? I think so...
I found this spread in the companion book for the Shadowscapes Tarot - it's designed to help look at the different things you're balancing - whether they are creative projects, work, commitments, emotional things... and identify the different fact...