Writings & Musings

  • Smart Inquiry: 3 Tips in Asking the Tarot Questions

    Featured Deck: The Rider Waite Smith Tarot Deck Let’s face it, people are inclined to go to a divination practitioner (i.e. tarot reader) because they want to get some answers/information to certain questions on their minds. However, do we really think about the questions that we approach these tools with? It may sound a bit…

  • Flip It, Let’s Reverse It: How to Read Reversed Tarot Cards

    Let’s face it, trying to learn and memorize seventy-eight meanings for each tarot card is very intimidating on its own. Adding another layer when the cards are upside-down can make a newbie (or even a seasoned practitioner) question why they even bothered to read the cards at all. Trust me, I have been in that…

  • 3 Friendly Tips for the Tarot Curious

    Overwhelmed. A word that basically summed up what I felt when I decided to learn how to read the tarot. Frankly, it was a fair assessment given that I grew up in a small Filipino Catholic household and have no one to teach me firsthand. When I thought of memorizing seventy-eight card meanings and piecing…

  • Hail Mary Mother of All: Mother Mary Oracle by Alana Fairchild Deck Review

    Truthfully, despite my witchy and woo-woo beliefs, I am still a Catholic. Okay, hold your pre-conceived notions of organized religion before throwing it my way. I am a Catholic who loves Jesus and the Blessed Virgin Mary, but I am also super open-minded in the New Age/Esoteric movement. Yes, these two have contradicting values that…

  • Honoring Pixie’s Art & Life: Pamela Colman Smith Commemorative Set Deck Review

    Ever since I was a budding tarot enthusiast, I have always been enamored by the beauty of Pamela Colman Smith’s artistry over the popular Rider Waite Smith tarot deck. I have a Universal Waite and Rider-Waite Tarot Deck: Giant Size in my collection so you can probably tell that I have a soft spot for her artwork,…

  • Unleash Your Wild Soul: The Wild Unknown Deck Review

    This is going to be the very first tarot deck review I’m going to be doing, ever. I mainly blog about YA novels, so this is going to be totally different for me. Nonetheless, I am stoked to share my thoughts and feelings toward The Wild Unknown Tarot deck by Kim Krans and the edition I’m going…