Writings & Musings

  • Tarot Cards are Evil: Myth Busting No. 1

    Deck: Fifth Spirit Tarot by Charlie Claire Burgess Let’s face it when you say the word “tarot” people will commonly associate it as a demonic instrument or harbinger of evil. We can blame pop culture for its consistent exaggeration of the use of tarot readings (and anything “supernatural”) as an uninspired plot device and/or scare…

  • E-mail Tarot Readings

    3 Benefits of an E-mail Tarot Reading

    Featured Deck: CBD Tarot de Marseille by Yoav Ben-Dov Tarot readings have evolved so much through the decades. We are no longer just limited to getting readings through face-to-face interactions. Don’t get me wrong I appreciate and enjoy meeting people personally and having actual conversations with them. However, remote readings (specifically e-mail tarot readings) have…

  • 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…