Tarot for Beginners: Spreads, Suits and How to Read
A tarot deck holds 78 cards: 22 Major Arcana for the large turning points, 56 Minor Arcana in four suits for daily life. Start with one card a...
Tarot Spreads: Which One to Use, and What Waite Actually Wrote
Most guides to tarot spreads hand you a diagram and a list of position names, as if those names were settled. They are not. The Celtic Cross alone...
Lenormand Cards: The 36 Cards Explained
All 36 Lenormand cards, the grammar of reading in pairs, three spreads from the pair to the Grand Tableau - and the surprising truth about the woman the...
Who Drew the Rider-Waite Tarot? Pamela Colman Smith and the Public Domain
The most reproduced tarot images in the world were drawn by a woman whose name is missing from the deck most people call by two other names. This...
Flying With Ritual Tools: TSA Rules for Crystals, Tarot and Candles
Crystals and tarot cards fly without trouble. Blades never fly in a carry-on. Matches are the item almost everyone gets backwards. And once you land, the real constraint...
How to Read Oracle Cards: A Beginner's Guide
How oracle decks differ from tarot, what to check in a deck before buying it, how to ask a question that produces something usable, a first pull step...
How to Dispose of Old Tarot Cards — Retiring a Deck the Honest Way
Burn it, bury it, recycle it or pass it on? What a tarot deck is actually made of, which endings the material survives, and why no tradition requires...
Best First Tarot Deck: Rider-Waite vs Thoth vs Golden Dawn
The three deck families compared on the one thing that decides whether a beginner can read at all: whether the numbered cards are illustrated scenes or bare suit...
Tarot vs Oracle Cards: What the Difference Is
The structural difference between tarot and oracle decks, the history that contradicts the usual story, which to start with, and what is actually happening in a reading.
Bri Luna and The Hoodwitch: The Witch Who Made the Aesthetic Part of the Practice
A sourced profile of The Hoodwitch founder: how the site started, her book, glamour magic, and what her work changed in the modern witchcraft scene.
What to Do When Two Tarot Readings Contradict Each Other
Why re-asking almost always produces a contradiction, the four kinds of conflict between readings and how to tell them apart, the one-week rule, and how to decide which...
How to Prepare for a Tarot Reading: Question, Space, and State of Mind
Write the question down before you touch the deck, and settle for five minutes first. Most unreliable readings are unreliable because of what happened before the shuffle.