Writings & Musings

  • It’s Okay to be Guided: 3 Tarot Guidebooks Recommendation

    Cartomancy is an intuitive art form. A typical tarot reader intuits the meanings of the cards in a myriad of ways but it is often chucked to psychic knowledge. It is fair to say that you can read the cards using purely your intuition, however, it is more common for people to learn the “meanings”…

  • Tarot for Self-Expression & Personal Articulation: How to Use the Cards to Say What Needs to be Said

    Have you ever experienced that moment where you don’t even know what you’re feeling? Let the tarot help you spell it out! When we think about the tarot, we normally associate it with fortune-telling or divination that aims to answer specific questions about an external situation, such as “Will he/she get back together?” or “How…

  • 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…