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New Moon Tarot Ritual
Keeping track of lunar cycles gives us the opportunity to look back over the previous month, take stock and have a think about what we’ve been up to. This past month, what have you enjoyed? What do...
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Preparing to Give a Reading.
Tarot reading is a deeply personal experience, which can make reading for others incredibly daunting! I’ve found, through trial and error, some actions I can do before a reading that help me to relax...
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Deck Review – The Wild Unknown Tarot
Wheel of Fortune – Wild Unknown Tarot I first read about this deck in a blog post a couple of months ago (and have since seen it starring in a lot of edgy-teenager instagram galleries – but don’t let...
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Finding Your Animal Guide With Tarot
Working in a spiritual shop, I hear quite a lot about power animals – in fact, we even sell various tools to help customers find their own animal guides. Yet somehow I’ve always felt removed from...
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Interpreting Dreams With Tarot
Botticelli Tarot – The World More often than not, dreams are pretty banal: I can’t tell you how many times I’ve dreamt about being late for work, doing the dishes, or travelling on a train through a...
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New Moon – Assessing Goals and Recognising Opportunities.
The Moon – Archeon Tarot This month’s new moon is on Saturday the 8th of June, 2013 The new moon is an ideal time to set new goals or to start afresh; in this post, however, I want to talk a little...
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Getting to the Heart of a Card
It happens to all of us: the reading is going so well until suddenly you stumble over one card that just… shouldn’t be there. Except that, y’know, it should because there are no accidents in Tarot....
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Telling Tales with Tarot – Here Comes the Sun
The Sun – Lo Scarabeo Tarot Associating a story (whether myth, fairy tale or personal experience) with each Tarot card is a wonderful way to both remember the meaning of the card and also to add depth...
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Celebrating Litha
Ophelia by Waterhouse “And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees… I had the familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” ~ F. Scott...
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Suit of the Season: Wands at the Summer Solstice
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – 1935 I love celebrating festivals of nature: I have a deep adoration for the world we live in and it was a longing for a deeper connection to nature’s rhythms that first...
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East of the Sun, West of the Moon
In Petticoats and Crinolines by Kay Nielsen There are two things you need to know about this month’s full moon: firstly, it’s tonight (June 23rd, 2013), and secondly: it is what is known as a...
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Three Tips for Reading for Yourself
Being a card reader for others can be tricky, but reading for yourself can be even more of a challenge! It’s so difficult to be objective about ourselves and to know which nuance of meaning each card...
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The Art of Asking the Right Question
In my previous post I very briefly touched upon how to ask a question of Tarot cards and I realised after I had written it that I’d only explained one aspect of how to construct the ideal question,...
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Invoking a Card for Personal Empowerment
Do you have a bit of a daunting day ahead of you? Perhaps you’re feeling a little anxious, blue or insecure when you would much rather be a sparkling and charismatic force of nature. I bet you have...
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Developing your Talent for Tarot – Sound and Vision
Here’s a fun and simple exercise for improving your Tarot skills that doesn’t even require you to pick up your deck! Just grab some popcorn and follow me… Lights, Camera, Action! What’s your...
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Wind Chimes and Tarot Charms.
ukiyo-e Tarot The Japanese have a type of wind chime called a furin – ‘wind bell’ – which traditionally consists of a glass bell (hence the name) and a weight to catch the wind that is made from a...
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A Game of Two Halves: Major vs Minor Arcana
When I’m writing posts for this blog, I often try to think of the information I needed when I was just starting out: what do I wish someone had explained to me right from the get-go? Today I’m going...
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Telling Tales with Tarot: Finding Strength in Beauty and the Beast
Associating a story (whether myth, fairy tale or personal experience) with each Tarot card is a wonderful way to both remember the meaning of the card and also to add depth to your readings. A week or...
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The Path the Moon Makes on Water: A Full Moon Tarot Spread
The Moon – Dave McKean Tarot This month’s full moon is Monday 22nd July, 2013 We all of us have goals, dreams and ambitions – or even just an aspect of our lives we want to change. If you’ve been...
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Releasing the Ties that Bind
The Rabbit Returns! Deepest apologies to my readers for my absence; as you know I was going through the bittersweet transition of having my significant other move in with me. The ‘sweet’ part is...
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