I do most of my tarot readings by email - which surprises many people. Here's how I do it.
How I do email tarot readings
Category: Tarot readings
Using oracle decks in tarot readings
As a rule, I'm not a fan of oracle decks - I love the system of tarot too much. But I do have a couple, and here's how I use them in my tarot readings.
Interviewing the Collective Tarot
We finally meet. After years of ogling others’ Collective Tarot decks, I’m so happy I now have my own. I’m gonna sit here, on this gorgeously bright Wednesday morning, with a bowl of porridge and a good strong coffee, and ask these cards all about how we’re going to get along…. 1. Tell me about yourself. …
All change
September, my personal 'new year' month, has been a real ride. So much has happened in the past four weeks and today, finally, I have a day to myself to gently think it all over and reflect on the changes within me.
It's time to do some tarot.
The Frau Grand Duchess Tarot is kinky and I like it
One of the most beautiful things about sharing my tarot journal online is the sense of community that builds up around it. People reach out to me to share their own ideas or ask questions in emails, comment on posts or connect on Twitter. At first I found this totally bizarre – when I started …
Gift tarot readings! Back by popular demand
Back by popular demand, I’m offering gift tarot readings via my online shop – hurrah! View in the shop You can now share the tarot love with your nearest and dearest by buying them a gift tarot reading – a thoughtful and unusual gift with a really special touch. I’ll write them a personal letter which explains …
A holiday tarot reading
A couple of weeks ago, exasperated by the rain and needing to Go Somewhere, anywhere hot, I booked a trip to Spain. Camping on the coast and a city break at the end. Em texted and said she’d come too. Perfect! The night before, after packing our small bags, Em and I drew cards for …
A full moon tarot reading
There’s a bunch of interesting stuff going on at the moment, so I’m going to check in with myself using my full moon tarot spread. Cards are from the Wild Unknown Tarot, by Kim Krans Waning moon 1. Things to let go of: Son of Cups Out with the young, brash romantic. Those dreaming, rather …
A spring cleaning tarot reading
Is that spring-like sunshine which through yonder window breaks? OMG it is. At last. And I’ve realised just how dirty yonder windows are. Time for a spring clean! If you’re anything like me, you’ll find that as the days grow longer and the sun grows shinier, you’re emerging, blinking, from a wintery hibernation and starting …
Making sense of the ‘Mars Effect’
My 2014 ‘year ahead’ astrological reading by the brilliant Eric Francis has been a fascinating read. I won’t quote my reading or go on about it too much here – if you want one, you’ll need to go to Planet Waves and order your own! But there is plenty of thought-provoking, relevant stuff I just want to get my …
The Chariot
This week, I’ve been offered the opportunity to submit a business proposal for a new project. The work is not something I’ve considered before… well, that’s a lie. I have considered this line of work before, but laughed it off thinking it ‘just wasn’t me’. Now I’m thinking differently. It’s a new year, and I’ve been actively …
Post-holiday blues reading
Okay, so it might seem a little odd to write about self-care just a few days after coming back from a (first ever!) beach holiday in Ibiza…but hey. Maybe I’ve got the post-holiday blues. Thinking about self-employment and how to get by in the big wide world right up until the moment of departure, then …
Spring cleaning tarot spread
I wanted to create a tarot spread that would serve as a spring clean for my life - addressing the junk I've got kicking around my flat and clearing it out, and redecorating with shiny new ideas to brighten things up.
Birthday reading with Mary-el
*Long post warning...* I've been needing a self-reading since new year's eve, so, with my 31st birthday tomorrow I've snuggled down with a brew to find out what the Mary-el Tarot has to say about my life at this time. The snow is thick outside - I...
Tuning in – interviewing the Wild Unknown Tarot
My Christmas present to myself was the Wild Unknown Tarot - a newly-published deck by Kim Krans, an artist and musician based in Philadelphia, USA (I think...or maybe she's in New York?). Anyway, you can find out more about Kim and her collaborati...
Don’t get me wrong
So. Yeah. What's happening? Strength The High Priestess An interesting reading. A major reading, small though it was. Four out of five? Whooosh. So I'm composed? Thank you, dear cards, for the reassurance. The beast sits calmly, knowing stillness ...
Elemental truths – interviewing the Mary-el Tarot
The Mary-el Tarot, by Marie White, is a mammoth of a deck - stuffed full of mythology, ancient symbols, graphic realisations of life and death, creation, birth and destruction. I'm falling for it big-style, but it's gonna take me a very, very long...
The gate, the key, the passage – the Gateway tarot spread
As well as being an awesome tarotist, Moti is the treasurer of TABI and an all-round lovely egg. Reading her blog lately, I came across a really brilliant, simple three card spread. It's called the Gateway spread and it looks like this: 1. The loc...
Tarot against the cuts
So, I've started a little fundraiser for UK Uncut. A UK-wide organisation, they (along with other groups such as Occupy and Queer Resistance) are leading the direct-action fight against our government's policy of cutting public services to pay for...
Equinox/Ostara reading
20th March 2012 So. Spring is finally here. The bitter chill hasn't quite left the air but everywhere blossom and shoots are brightening the greys and browns of this rough Pennine town and the cold wind is filled with promises of warmer, brighter,...
Get to know your strengths as a tarot reader: The reader’s tarot reading
Here's a simple six-card tarot spread that's all about you/me as a reader and your/my special skills.
Cheesecake and Cherry B – meeting the Steampunk Tarot
It's always exciting times when a new deck of cards is acquired, isn't it? I'm not someone who has to buy/own every deck she fancies and actually I only have a few, but every so often, one catches my eye and my heart so completely that I get all c...
New year in the Magical Forest
I lay in bed this morning, reading yesterday's paper. As there are none on new year's day, I'd bought Saturday's and saved it. But reading it felt kinda wrong. The news was all round-ups of 2011. The magazine was filled with fashion ideas for 'ton...
Waxing and waning – a full moon tarot spread
This isn’t about being super proactive – the full moon is a time for reflection, rather than starting new things.
Getting shit done – trying out the Procrastination Conversation spread
In which I'm gonna test-drive two spreads I've recently been working on. They both need a more work, but in the spirit of moving the darn things forwards (and putting a couple of little ticks on my list!!) I'm gonna post this now. It gives me a wa...
You are precisely my cup of tea – meeting the Anna K tarot
My friend and I bought each other a Tarot deck - the same one. It was the Anna K Tarot, and mine came today. Hurrah! I've spent many hours virually thumbing through the deck on Anna's website, loving so many little details and overarching features...
Say goodbye
I wanted to say goodbye to some old feelings. A couple of weeks ago, I underwent a series of realisations - and since then I've been finally able to let go of those emotions, needs and that person that were holding me like hot tarmac to the ground...
Moving on, moving home
I had a question for the cards - a small question for a big situation. My partner and I are about to return to the place we used to live, but left because of an emotional situation which just wasn't healthy. Two years have passed, feelings have ch...
Building blocks – a three-tier tarot reading
I drew three cards to understand just where I'm at right now. There are many things swimming in my head - a hangover from hard times several years ago. I need to sort the wheat from the chaff. Six of Cups - a sense of nostalgia, harking back to in...
The integrity of self-reading
7th May 2011 Dunragit, Galloway, Scotland. Midnight. Emily lays curled into her tail, her small furry body rising quickly and falling with fast little breaths, the occasional cat-snore or dreamy moan. In the bedroom, my love lies sleeping deep. Th...