Writings & Musings

  • I DON’T GET IT NO. 3: DISTANCE AND BREAKS

    So, you’ve used the visual cues in the card’s image and different correspondences from your repertoire. If nothing makes any sense then it might be best to… HOT TIP: TAKE A BREAK FROM THE READING AND MOVE AWAY We’ve all had those encounters where we walked out of a stressful or overwhelming situation so that…

  • I DON’T GET IT NO. 2: THINK ESOTERICALLY

    So you tried reading the cards narratively, and you saw the interactions in the characters, and related them to your question. You managed to scrape a few pieces of information that seem relevant to your question, but you aren’t confident with its clarity. OR it still doesn’t make any sense to you or your querent.…

  • I Don’t Get It No. 1: Advice for When Readings Don’t Resonate

    Note: This post originally came from my Instagram account (@arcanesenses). Have you ever experienced pulling cards and nothing seems to make any sense? I have (and still do sometimes) and that’s normal. Fundamentally, I know the card’s basic “traditional” meanings, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that it will always be a meaningful or useful interpretation.…

  • Always Be Curious: Why Read Tarot with Curiosity?

    At the start of my tarot journey, I always assumed that I can only be a proficient tarot reader once I memorised the keywords or phrases that were normally included in the little white book or LWB within a tarot pack. In my case, it was the LWB from the Halloween Tarot by Kipling West…

  • #ONLY10DECKS

    Despite its reputation for fortune-telling, a tarot deck can be considered as a work of art. It is a tool that can be used for aesthetic and practical purposes. That’s why I enjoy collecting decks and appreciating the different approaches artists make to the archetypes.

  • Don’t Let Anyone Touch Your Cards: Myth Busting No. 6

    Deck: The Quirky Creatives Tarot There’s this ongoing narrative that surrounds the tarot that makes it supernatural, as if the cards themselves contain magic that affects a person’s circumstance. In line with this way of thinking some people believe the reader is the only one that can touch their cards because the “magic” in the…