My resolutions, your resolutions 2015 (and a free tarot reading for you!)
January 8, 2015Is it too late to share these? What the heck. It’s taken me this long to figure out what mine actually are. Read more
I read ‘The 4-Hour Work Week’ so you don’t have to
July 19, 2015The main aim of this book is to show you how to adopt the smug, hyper-masculine, colonialist attitude of the obnoxious dudebro who wrote it. Read more
Planfest 2018: The anxious trap of time and planning
January 4, 2018Let’s talk about how we have the cultural agreement to wind ourselves up for New Years… Read more
My business is a garden, not a line
January 20, 2018I want Little Red Tarot to be an anticapitalist business and here are some of my initial ramblings about that. Read more
Shop Talk | Towards truly environmental packaging
January 13, 2018The Little Red Tarot Shop’s packaging policy and thoughs on environmental impact, and guidance for recycling/composting your packages! Read more
Just let’s not call these ‘productivity tips’
July 15, 2015But. As freelancers, activists, business owners, side-hustlers, volunteers and students sometimes we all need to stop procrastinating and do the thing. Read more
Not a full deck #1: Removing ‘scary’ cards from your tarot deck
April 6, 2015If you’re reading to entertain people – at a party, for example – should you remove the scary-looking cards from your tarot deck and keep things light? Read more
How I do email tarot readings
January 12, 2015I do most of my tarot readings by email – which surprises many people. Here’s how I do it. Read more
Identity politics in tarot: the tarot practitioner be mindful
February 5, 2015A guest post shared by Benebell Wen. Guest posts on Little Red Tarot are submitted by readers. The aim is to offer a wide range of voices, views on, feelings about and approaches to tarot (and related topics). As with all posts on this website, discussion is welcome in the comments! If you’d… Read more
Q&A: How to take your first steps into professional tarot
December 1, 2014So a whole bunch of you want to know how to ‘go pro’ And by this I’m thinking you’re not asking me how to build a magnificent tarot business empire (yet)…but more about how to take those first steps towards charging for readings and making money from your awesome tarot… Read more
Your to-do list – Eight of Wands
April 29, 2015Powerful, energetic, direct, and full-on. The Eight of Wands represents a bunch of different things to me, all of which feel really relevant today. NB – I’m excited to have drawn today’s card from The Fountain Tarot by Jonathan Saiz, Jason Gruhl and Andi Todaro – hot off the press, this stunning new… Read more
Cleaning Up Your ‘Money is Dirty’ Mind – by Theresa Reed
September 1, 2015[Guest post] Want to go pro? Already run a tarot business? Here are The Tarot Lady’s top tips for making peace with making money from your magical skills. Read more
How we approach email tarot readings
October 17, 2016Providing tarot readings is an honour and a joy. Here’s how to stop it turning from something you love into another way to be stressed, unhappy or burnt out. Read more
However I damn well please – Nine of Pentacles
October 1, 2015I’ve been making some changes to the way I work lately. After a strange summer of shifting emotions and a feeling that I’d lost myself somewhere along the way, and the unfamiliar experience of simply allowing those shifts to happen rather than leaping to articulate or capture them, September brought… Read more
Temperance be my guide
November 20, 2015Suddenly, as a person who’s life has become incredibly single tracked, and as someone who wants to bring variety, creativity and, yes, the elusive concept of balance back into her life, Temperance is looking pretty damn good. Read more
What does a feminist business look like? Exploring ‘abundance consciousness’
May 23, 2018Can abundance be its own economy? Read more
Earth, self-care and a studio
February 9, 2015Last week, I finally found a studio. You can probably hear my sigh of relief on the other side of the world. It was the gardeners’ storage room till Em and I cleared it last week. I love my tarot work, and I love that it’s portable, flexible, do-able from anywhere…including my… Read more
The Brady Tarot: Emi Brady on deep creative process & working with Rachel Pollack
March 7, 2018“This conversation made me realize that I will need to put a disclaimer in my introduction about this deck. This deck has teeth and is not for the faint of heart!” Read more
Navigating the road blocks to getting started with a tarot business
October 6, 2015Reader SJ on their experiences in ‘following their dreams’ whilst dealing with disability. Read more
LRT ending: Questions & answers
September 11, 2018Following my recent announcement that LRT is winding down on 31st October, I’ve received some questions and comments – here are my answers! Read more
Mental Illness & Entrepreneurship – Owning Nonstandard Narratives
November 16, 2015[Guest post] “Living with mental illness gives me an awareness of the separation between my beliefs and actual reality. I think this is an advantage.” Read more
Reading tarot on the road
March 27, 2015What do you actually need to do a tarot reading? A tarot deck, nothing more. Perhaps you’d also add a notebook, or laptop if you’re emailing readings or recording stuff digitally, a mobile if you’re giving phone readings. I have all of those things right here in my handbag, so it… Read more
Five business lessons I learned last year
January 5, 2015A few things I learned which have really helped me in being a self-employed, freelancing, project-juggling, home-working, entrepreneurial tarot reader and writer. Read more
Proactivity vs reactivity – a new year’s resolution
December 15, 2014Reactivity is letting others dictate your schedule. Proactivity is setting your own. Guess which one feels nicer? Read more
Follow Your Arrow: My new solopreneur series on Autostraddle!
July 2, 2015I’m so excited! Today, my new solopreneur series – Follow Your Arrow – started on Autostraddle! It’s a fortnightly celebration of LGBTQ solopreneurs, business-owners, side-hustlers and others who want to earn a living doing the things they love. The first post features an interview with yours truly, so you’ll get… Read more
How to be of service as a tarot reader
July 27, 2016Tarot reading advice that often goes unsaid or is merely implied in regards to being of service to others. Read more
The Garden | 103 ways to build a feminist online tarot shop
October 1, 2018What kinds of attitudes and practices can help us craft feminist, anticapitalist online businesses? 103 ideas. Read more
Selling your art, visibly, online
March 2, 2015First published in The Chapess #4 – an issue dedicated to the concept of taking up space as a woman and an artist. Read more
What if you don’t have ‘one true calling’?
May 27, 2015I watched this video this morning over my coffee and it made my heart sing. Lately, I’ve been having this same conversation with a lot of my 30-something friends. A conversation about ‘finding your thing’. About reining in your passions in order to find that one special thing that will be… Read more
Design tips for tarot bloggers
February 2, 2015Do you write a tarot blog (or actually, any kind of blog)? Want to make it prettier? One thing about which I get *a lot* of lovely feedback is the look and feel of Little Red Tarot. I’m glad, because I put a lot of love and energy into designing and building… Read more
What’s in my tarot bag? Things you might not think to bring to a client reading
March 16, 2018Wren is embracing Tarot as a lifestyle at this dark moon in Pisces. Read more
Checking in: Where I’m at and where I’m going
May 19, 2015It’s a month since my new moon ritual. At the last new moon, feeling strongly the urge to bring more earth into my life and to calm down the internal fire that makes me hyper, sparky, quick to decide/act and generally kinda intense, I gave thanks to the elements that had… Read more
How to protect your boundaries when reading tarot for your friends
January 29, 2015Reading tarot for your friends can be a complex thing, and it’s worth figuring out some boundaries and ground rules first. Read more
Tarot readers: it’s okay to take a break
July 18, 2016As tarot readers, it’s an honour to give our clients focused time and energy. But it’s okay, too, to take a break when you need to focus on yourself. Read more
2014: The year that…
December 30, 2014I don’t know where to begin processing the year that’s drawing to a close right now. I know, a list. Here’s what happened. Read more
I need a dose of reality
November 13, 2015In recent weeks, I’ve felt very quiet. Not in that good – though often destabilising – introspective way, where you purposefully take time out to sit with thoughts and feelings. More in a sad way. I’ve felt low, listless, unenthused. At moments I’ve wondered if I’m hovering on the edge… Read more
The Chariot – the heart and soul in your work
January 20, 2014Wondering whether to begin a new business venture recently, I drew The Chariot. I was at the stage of writing my proposal – up to this point, ideas had been swimming around in my head and I was yet to get things down in writing. I wasn’t sure if this… Read more
Want to read tarot at an event? Here’s my advice
April 3, 2017If you’re planning on reading tarot at an upcoming event or party, here are my tips to help things go smoothly. Read more
Solopreneurs explore mental/health barriers and positive ways forwards
November 30, 2015Mental health, illness and disability are rarely discussed in the clamour of entrepreneurship blogs. Enter you guys! Here are four entrepreneurial stories which dearly need telling. Read more
January is incubation time
January 8, 2018Listen to the seasons. They offer a pathway through the year from intention setting to realisation to integration. Read more
Flax & Gold Astrology is live and wonderful
November 2, 2015Corina Dross and I made a website and it’s gorgeous and will help you learn astrology. Read more
Tarot and the imposter complex: How to deal when you don’t believe in yourself
September 4, 2017Liz Worth explores how Imposter Complex can stop you from achieving the things you want, and finds advice in the Chariot card. Read more
INTERVIEW | Fonna Seidu on real representation in spirituality & wellbeing
April 18, 2018“I want to work myself out of a job.” Photographer Fonna Seidu is breaking barriers and changing the visual landscape of health and wellness online. Read more
The blogs I follow and love
November 9, 2015I consider it an essential part of my job to read a shedload of blogs. Here are my favourites! Read more
On writing retreats
August 3, 2015I’m a big fan of retreating. Of carving out a special, dedicated space for a specific task or focus. I’m not a natural multi-tasker, but by virtue of the fact that most of my work is online, every time I sit down at my desk to work, I’m faced with… Read more
Dark Days | A spell for the dark moon in Capricorn
January 16, 2018Wren McMurdo shares a step-by-step spell to encourage a feeling of accomplishment, replenish a sacred space, and fill your home with magical aromas while warming your soul and easing stress. Read more
10 ideas for your tarot blog or journal
February 20, 2017Hit a rut with your tarot blog? Nothing to write in your journal? Pick one of these prompts, and get scribbling! Read more
Lessons from my cards: What the Eight of Pentacles is teaching me about work
December 8, 2015Eight of Earth, from the Nomad Tarot Work has been a big theme for me lately. Redefining my own work, redesigning the way I structure my days, and most importantly, rethinking my relationship to my work are topics that have been on my mind and tongue more or less constantly.… Read more
You’re going to survive: An interview with Alexandra Franzen
November 22, 2017Did you know, the first ‘professional’ tarot reading Cassandra Snow ever did was for Alex Franzen? Here the two friends catch up about resilience in the face of rejection and setbacks (and tarot!) Read more
Diversity points: Ashley & I talk queerness and blackness in tarot
July 30, 2015A double-round of interviews for you! Here’s Ashley talking about her tarot business and how her Black heritage informs her tarot practice. Read more
The Garden | Social Capital & platform ownership
September 17, 2018Social Capital is an intangible economy of power and access that exists between community members. How can we be accountable to this as business owners who rely on social capital to make a living? Read more
Slowness as a Community Healing Practice
September 4, 2018When you take the time to respond from a place of groundedness, it ripples out and gives permission to others to do the same. While we can’t slow everything around us, we can model and cultivate slowness in our lives to the best of our abilities. Read more
What do tarot readers do all day?
December 29, 2014Oh you know, we sit in darkened rooms communing with the spirit world. Not really! Here’s a peek at a day in the life of a few professional tarot peeps…and their cats. Read more
The Numinous Future: New work & radical queer magic from Noel Heimpel
October 20, 2018What’s next for Noel and their radical queer magic? Read more
My favourite tarot spreads for client readings
September 30, 2016A few handy tarot spreads I find really useful for all kinds client readings. Read more
How Restorative Journaling Helped My Business to Flourish (Despite Chronic Illness)
November 17, 2015Writer Esme Wang on the challenges chronic illness can bring to running a business, and how she writes her way to empowerment and success. Read more
Are you a tarot reader? Looking for a website?
November 3, 2014I’m your gal. Four Elements Web Design is my other big passion besides tarot – this is the place where I get to geek out with creative women and work with them to create beautiful, brilliant online homes for their businesses. I even have a special package just for tarot readers. If… Read more
Write for Little Red Tarot
January 26, 2015I know what an interesting bunch you are because you’re always emailing and telling me! And I’m always secretly hoping that one day you’re going to simply offer me an article. Read more
Wicca, self-care, and the trap of rewriting history
January 24, 2018Faith is one of many forms of self-care, and respect for others is paramount in the quest to self-care. Read more
Over 40 exercises for tarot blog inspiration
January 4, 2015Do you write a tarot blog or journal? If so, the Alternative Tarot Course is just made for you – it’s packed with over 40 exercises and tarot spreads you can use to explore your cards. Read more
How to rock out your 2017 planfest
January 16, 2017“It’s an organizational orgy. A link roundup that threatens to exceed the bounds of usefulness. Enough to make my Capricorn-moon heart sing and test my already shaky nerves.” Read more
When you want to do All Of The Things…
May 17, 2016Tarot for projects and planning…plus LOADS of resources for people who refuse to choose one path in life. Read more
Shine (a reminder)
January 16, 2015Isn’t this poem perfectly The Fool? When I read it, I imagined myself on her cliff, about to step into some unknown abyss. All that’s needed is faith. Read more
I’m a 30-something writer, artist, tarot reader, and perpetual explorer of the space between thought, feeling, and action.
I believe that spirituality and ritual are for everybody. I’m about the journey, in all of its messy, non-linear, chaotic iterations. I am excited by anticapitalist business and living with my whole entire self present. I use tarot cards to bring forth hidden truth, and ritual to affirm my commitment, over and over, to my ever-shifting path.