As I prepare for the MLK, Jr. weekend ahead, I decided to combine one of Dr. King’s speeches with a tarot card spread. The exercise helps me personalize his message, and find a call to action for this present moment. Here is how it goes… Listen to his words. Choose any material from MLK’s teachings ..read more

Tarot Workouts are short, real-life case studies to help you exercise your tarot-reading muscle. To do this workout, read the question, and then step away from the essay to formulate your own response. Read the end later to see how Yetta’s response compares to your own. Your Client Your client, Mei, has purchased a tarot reading as ..read more

Tarot Workouts are short, real-life case studies to help you exercise your tarot-reading muscle. To do this workout, read the question, and then step away from the essay to formulate your own response. Read the end later to see how my response compares to your own.  Your Client You are a tarot reader working a booth at a ..read more

Tarot Workouts are short, real-life case studies to help you exercise your tarot-reading muscle. To do this workout, read the question, and then step away from the essay to formulate your own response. Read the end later to see how my response compares to your own.  Your Client Jenny, a high school teacher, approaches you about a conflict ..read more

A good friend of mine was browsing through my tarot library. “Why on Earth do you have a copy of THIS on your bookshelf,” she asked: “PD Eastman’s, Are You My Mother?” I replied. “Why, this was my first tarot book ever!” Gather around, tarot friends. Let me tell you a story. “A mother bird ..read more

The heavy door slammed behind me, triggering the clang of a cowbell overhead. I had entered a tiny office at the corner of an auto shop. A mechanic came in from the garage wearing greasy coveralls, but otherwise appearing strangely out of place. He looked past me with wide eyes and an open mouth. He didn’t respond to my greeting, and though he clearly could hear me, I got the impression that he wasn’t able to speak.  It was as if he had walked straight out of a tarot deck. “This man is the Fool!” I thought to myself. But he wasn’t the pretty Fool from the Waite-Smith deck. He was more lik ..read more

When you work for a company, there are arrangements for passing feedback between boss and employee. The formal performance review is one. Employee of the Month awards are another. People get fired. Workers strike. Some file grievances with HR. Even something as obnoxious as talking trash behind a colleague’s back serves the purpose of assessing what works and what needs changing in the workplace. But what if you are in business for yourself? When you are your own boss, you are responsible for both sides of the employer-employee relationship. How many self-employed people are good bosses? How ..read more

Tarot Workouts are short, real-life case studies to help you exercise your tarot-reading muscle. To do this workout, read the question, and then step away from the essay to formulate your own response. Read the end later to see how my response compares to your own.  This sample reading uses the Mary-El Tarot deck painted by Marie White and published by REDFeather. The Mary-El is not a traditional Rider-Waite-Smith deck, so extra mental stretching is advised! Your Client Beth is a 24-year-old woman who has been waiting in line for a tarot reading at a private party. When her ..read more

Take some tips from eclipse-watchers to better appreciate tarot card #19. Every day, a powerful, life-giving orb parades gloriously overhead, and each of us, to a man, dutifully looks away. We are taught not to look at the sun from an early age. By adulthood, our muscles are trained and our curiosity is quieted. Similarly with tarot’s Sun Card, its natural radiance means it often goes under-examined. We appreciate its superficial meaning — good news!! — but rarely look beyond that first impression. How can tarot readers dive deeper into the brilliance of tarot’s Sun Card to find more subtlety ..read more

When Tyler Richards sees the Temperance card, he thinks of his Caribbean-born mother and aunts making hot cocoa for him as a child. In order to cool down the chocolate from the heat of the stove, they’d slowly pour the liquid back and forth between two cups. “It was like the act of manifestation,” he explains. “Our ideas in the 5th Dimension are too hot to handle. With Temperance, we figure out what is needed to bring the 5D dream into our 3D world.” Tyler, pictured here with his current go-to deck, the Crow Tarot, is a tarot friend and fellow professional — the owner of Reckless Abandon ..read more