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Witch Hunt: Shrines, Altars and Samhain
Get all your witchy links, your shrine and altar info, what Samhain is all about, an update on the webseries MisSpelled and much, much more right here!
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Fool’s Journey: Eight Queer Tarot Decks to Ogle, Support or Buy!
Finding a tarot deck that completely sings to you can be hard. Finding one that sings to you and is queer at heart is even harder. To help with that, I made you this wee roundup of queer-friendly tarot decks on my radar.
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Fool’s Journey: Those Hard, Sharp Swords are Symbols of Your Courage and Strength
Nope, the swords are not often gentle, or particularly kind. But those mind-related cards have plenty to teach, starting with encouragement to take an honest look at ourselves and the way our thinking is affecting our behaviour. Here are a few ways you might interpret some of the trickier swords cards so that they can provide you with genuinely useful advice…as long as you’re prepared to hear it.
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Fool’s Journey: Getting By With a Little Help from Your (Tarot) Friends
Some tarot resources and communities for discussion, support and making friends!
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Fool’s Journey: The Two-Card Cross is the Most Useful Tarot Spread of All
It’s a quick, dirty, two-card spread that takes just a minute or two to do, and provides loads of insight and clarity.
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Fool’s Journey: Eight Tarot Cards That Want You to Care for Yourself
“Self-care is often the very last thing we think about when we’re reading our cards, as so often we’re focused on bigger goals. But if we want to build lives we love, or have healthier relationships, or create careers that really give us what we need, or whatever… we have to start right at the beginning with number one.”
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Why We Are Witches: An A-Camp Roundtable
“Witchiness is in my family: my people are the original hilljacks. I grew up with stories about my great-grandma Fern who traveled around Appalachia holding seances where she raised spirits and tables.”
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Fool’s Journey: 8 Tarot Apps to Turn Your Phone Into Your Pocket Mystic
When I need a tarot-y kinda message, I can just reach into my bag and grab a card, or find a quiet spot for a reading. Why would I also need an app? Let’s find out!
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Fool’s Journey: Slow Holler’s Queer/Southern Artists Tell Their Stories Through Tarot
We tell stories to stay awake. We tell stories to communicate. It is how we come to know each other. It is a part of our culture. We may be black, brown, white, queer, undocumented. We come from swamps, foothills, and sandy pines. We have different histories and experiences, but we came from this place and we shape this place.
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Fool’s Journey: Moving On – Tarot Cards for Changes, Endings and Fresh New Starts
These cards seem to me to carry advice around ways or reasons to ‘move on’ — whether that’s making a change, embracing life’s flux, or simply walking away.
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The Top 15 Witches According to My Bruja Heart
I’m pretty sure most of us who were weird kids grew up wanting to be witches, I know I did.So let’s celebrate that fact!
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Fool’s Journey: Reading Tarot for Your Friends – Boundaries, Ethics, Responsibilities
On the one hand, you have this awesome skill you really want to offer/share/show off. The people around you think it’s cool, they think you can help them, and they want to open up to you. But it’s not always that simple.
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Fool’s Journey: A Thanksgiving Tarot Spread To Help You Survive Family Gatherings
Shocker: not everyone loves traditional family gatherings. You wanted a tarot spread which would help you navigate Thanksgiving, so here’s one to look at the energies around your dinner table and deal with whatever is getting you down.
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Fool’s Journey: 12 Fun Tarot Activities to Keep You and Your Cards Busy Over the Festive Period
Here’s a whole big bunch of my favourite ‘tarot things to do’ so you can keep yourself busy with your cards over the holiday period!
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Fool’s Journey: What Do Tarot Readers Do All Day?
Oh 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.
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Fool’s Journey: Find Your Tarot Birth Card!
Let’s all sum ourselves up as cards from the tarot and find out what that says about us.
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Fool’s Journey: Understanding the Tarot Court Cards
These sixteen court cards are notoriously tricky to interpret, with beginners and seasoned readers alike often struggling to understand their meaning in tarot readings.
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Fool’s Journey: I Can’t Find The Words
“My writing lets me vent everything I have pent up and my poems allow people to comprehend what I’m thinking. But when words are meant to come from my mouth, they’re all zig zagging in my head, I tend to over-think on what to say.”
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Fool’s Journey: I Feel Like Being in Love is Not Something I’m Meant For
I’m gonna take a punt before I’ve even shuffled my cards and tell you that no – you’re not unlovable. No way. I think we can all agree, I don’t need a deck of cards to tell you that. You are 100% lovable, just like ALL Autostraddle readers.
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Fool’s Journey: Create Your Own Tarot Spread
Crafting spreads builds confidence and helps you to remember that you’re learning tarot your way, nobody else’s. Plus it means you can always come up with your own special approach to all those crazy-ass questions your friends bring you.