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A tarot reading: Fumbling towards leadership
Category: The Wild Unknown Tarot
Strength and Death
New moon reading
I recently shared a spread that I’d created for the last new moon. I needed something to help me get a grip on the changes I was feeling inside me, and manifest my own turning point. It turns out lots of you needed the very same thing. I’ve been overwhelmed by the response, in blog …
The Wild Unknown Tarot 2nd edition: What’s the difference?
Unless you've already grabbed yourself a copy, you're probably wondering what's changed in the new edition of Kim Krans' much-loved tarot deck. Here's a peek!
However I damn well please – Nine of Pentacles
I’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 clarity, and a climax. In …
Your top ten tarot decks
In my 2015 survey I asked readers for their favourite tarot decks. 150 decks were mentioned, and here are the top ten, voted by you!
Soul work: Knight/Son of Pentacles
Here’s one of the hardest-working cards in the tarot deck. The Knight of Pentacles – like the other knights – is obsessive about their suit. Where the Knight of Swords could be fixated on a grudge and the Knight of Cups is a dreaming romantic, the Knight of Pentacles has signed up for some seriously …
Hold fast – The Star
What’s your North Star? By this I mean, what one thing would you know you could hold onto when everything else was falling apart? Not a partner, a lover, a friend, a pet – I’m talking about something deep inside you. An unchanging, untouchable essence of your self. The light of truth you carry within you. For …
Truth or fantasy? Two sides of The Moon
Everything looks different in the moonlight: details you’d never seen before, faces, voices, symbols that are invisible in the daylight. This is one spooky card.
The Wild Unknown: help provide healthcare resources in Camaroon
Q&A: “It’s barely a tarot deck”
Last week, I received this question from a reader: I’ve had my deck of tarot cards for only a month, but I saw the Wild Unknown deck on tumblr and fell in love with it and ordered it as a “help get through the semester” sort of thing. The owner of the local small Wicca shop, when …
You bring out The Devil in me
The Devil isn't always doom, gloom and terror - in fact sometimes, a dose of this wicked energy might be just what you need.
Let it be – Nine of Cups
On holiday last week, the Nine of Cups surprised me by turning up in a reading as the ‘souvenir’ I would be taking home (you can read the full reading here) but, as sun-blasted Catalan days crept by its meaning has gradually emerged. I was using the Wild Unknown Tarot – this Nine of Cups shows a simple …
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 …
The ‘Go Get Her’ tarot spread
Here’s a li’l spread I made up for fun the other day while writing a ‘create your own tarot spread’ exercise for Autostraddle’s Tarot School… I’ve called it the ‘Go Get Her’ spread and it is designed to help you work out how to shoot stingingly-sexy arrows of love and lust into any desired heart. …
The Wild Unknown Tarot is now in stock!
Hurrah! The beautiful, insightful Wild Unknown Tarot is finally in stock. To everyone on my mailing list who has waited patiently for a deck for two good months now, I’m so happy to let you know it’s here! Little Red Tarot is 100% proud and excited to be the first and only UK stockist of this stunning little …
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 …
Let the soft animal of your body love what it loves
Browsing around on Autostraddle this morning I came across this poem, left by a commenter. Clearly it’s a famous one, but I had never seen it before. It brought me to tears. Wild Geese You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the …
Community building – Three of Pentacles
Three is the magic number, right? With the Three of Pentacles, we can see why. Whilst the Three of Cups gives us community relationships, and Wands shows us the moment everything comes together ready to begin something, the Three of Pentacles is all about teamwork. Yesterday, I drew the Six of Pentacles. It brought up questions …
Self-care and healing – Fives of Cups and Pentacles
We were niggly, restless. I was cross because I couldn’t hear properly because some woman had a really piercing voice in there, and because I had PMT and a headache, and because of the weather, and because I was just in a grump this week. She wasn’t herself either. We drew cards. Ah. Let’s all …
Give and take – Six of Pentacles
It’s my birthday. I didn’t have time for a full reading (…and truth be told, I didn’t want one.) A simple, single card to offer advice for the year ahead. The Six of Pentacles. Six delicate plums glow like lanterns on the silhouette of a branch. The description in my brief guide say prosperity and growth. There …
The Chariot – the heart and soul in your work
Wondering 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 idea was really me, or …
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 …
A return
I’m not really sure where I’ve been. But I haven’t been *here* for nine months. What happened? Cards from the Tarot of the Wild Unknown, by Kim Krans Past: Seven of Swords Losing trust – in myself? I felt it gradually wearing away over the final months of this year – felt my grip loosening, …
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...
Magic wands
So! 2013. A year I've decided will be characterised by hard work, being even more broke and still having a lot of fun. Awesome. Without wanting to go into detail here and now, there's a big project brewing - perhaps not huge by other peoples' stan...
Roots / memories – Six of Cups
It's 1.30 am, winter solstice, 21st December. I'm snuggled on sofa cushions on the floor of a dear friend's house and I suddenly can't sleep. A card is what I need. The Six of Cups. Here it is, drawn from the Wild Unknown Tarot, by Kim Krans: I us...
Can’t see the wood for the wands
Burnout - we've all been there. Saying yes to every exciting opportunity that comes along, feeling busy and excited and stimulated and yes, a bit important, a bit needed...and then, boom. Suddenly it's all too much,...