Results for: tarot
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Fool’s Journey: Oracle Cards as an Alternative or Addition to Tarot
Oracle decks are an accessible alternative to tarot. Here are some of my favourites, plus ideas for how you could use them!
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Fool’s Journey: Wands Show Us That Actions Speak Louder Than Words
These are the fiery cards of activism, of turning words into actions, of living your dreams…and of burnout.
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Fool’s Journey: Ways to Make Tarot Part of Your Daily Routine in 2016
If you’ve resolved to do more with your tarot cards in the new year, a daily draw is a really simple way to work with your cards on the regular. Here are some ideas to inspire you!
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Fool’s Journey: Tarot Gift Ideas for the Cardslingers in Your Life
Want to spread some tarot love this holiday season? Treat your friends (or yourself) to some handmade woo with these self-published tarot decks and handcrafted accessories!
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Fool’s Journey: Manifest Your Own New Year With This Creativity and Courage Tarot Spread
Let’s not wait for the New Year to take charge of our own transformations. Sometimes you just know that a turning point is upon you and it’s time to make a change.
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Where To Start If You’re A Tarot Newbie
Getting into tarot can be totally intimidating. Where do you start with learning the meanings of all of those cards? And how do you actually do a reading, anyway? And so forth! Here are some tips for getting started.
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Fool’s Journey: Not Looking To Predict “Outcomes” In Tarot? Try These Ideas Instead
If you don’t feel that tarot cards can predict the future, how do you approach the ‘outcome’ position in many tarot spreads? Here are some ideas!
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Fool’s Journey: Cristy C Road’s Next World Tarot is the Deck of your Queer Punk Dreams
“Aside from bringing another deck to the world, I’m excited to create a deck that illustrates a blend of mind and body outcasts. The deck originated as a ‘queer deck’ but its definitely grown since that. I want to focus on people’s cultural and subcultural backgrounds, I want to blur fundamentalist spirituality, but maintain a lot of the traditional concepts behind the images.”
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Fool’s Journey: Barbara Moore Talks LGBTQ Tarot and What It’s Like to do Tarot Full-Time
“Barbara tells us about how she got started with tarot (pre-internet, y’all), how tarot informed her thinking about psychology and gender, and her upcoming course and retreat.”
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Fool’s Journey: Simple Ways to Bring a Little Astrology into your Tarot Readings
Where tarot tells us about what’s going on in our lives in this specific moment, astrology shows us patterns established the moment we were born, and that ring out throughout every day of our lives. An understanding of one necessarily enhances our understanding of the other — so here are some ways to pair ’em up.
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Fool’s Journey: “She Is Sitting in the Night” is the Queer Tarot Book You’ve Been Waiting For
It’s a queer tarot guidebook and a celebration of an 80s feminist tarot deck rolled into one; a book of beautiful and radical tarot card meanings, and a conversation across generations of feminism and LGBTQ politics.
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Fool’s Journey: So Many Feelings — Exploring The Suit of Cups
There are cards here for falling in love, re/discovering our spirituality, friendship, fulfillment, compassion and soulful creativity. It’s in the suit of cups that we find our roots and identify — if possible — what makes us truly happy.
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Fool’s Journey: Where is My Path Leading?
“I’m entirely lost. Which direction should I be heading in right now? Where is my path leading? What should I be putting most of my energy into to one day become an independent and successful person with a flourishing career?” A tarot reading to explore possibilities.
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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: Poet Leah Horlick Explores Trauma, Healing and Transformation Through Tarot Symbolism
Poet Leah Horlick’s book of poems For Your Own Good uses the symbolic language of the tarot as a vehicle to express some of the most traumatic experiences of her life. These poems tell the story of an abusive relationship and its aftermath, using tarot cards and tarot symbolism to do so.
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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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3 Tarot Spreads for Checking in with Your Relationships
This week, I want to share a few tarot spreads with you, which you can use to look at what’s going on with your relationships. Firstly with your one-to-one relationships, secondly a spread for polyamorous folks, and lastly a little spread that’s just for loving your wonderful self.
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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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Fool’s Journey: I Feel Anxious and Stuck and I Don’t Know Why
“You are rich (as you know) but in your anxiety, you give away so much of your strength. Right now, it’s okay to hold close to you what you value and what makes you feel strong.”