two black people, one in bell bottom jeans, and other in striped floral pants having a great time on an orange and blue gradient background. We must be critical of new age practices even as we work with them.  New age spirituality easily slides towards the right because it easily slides.  It's malleable. It's individual.  That individualism leaves new age practices without an inherent values system.  They can be picked up by anyone. They can be used in any way.  Some of the practices that fall under "new age" were once part of much older systems of belief. Stripping s ..read more

Psst! This Tuesday, September 26th, I’m opening the doors to Tarot in Community, an online space for queers, feminists, and leftists to learn tarot, and merge it with their work in the world. Sign up for the waitlist here! image: a person with blond, short cropped hair and painted nails kisses someone with a beard on the cheek over an orange and green background. “It’s just a feeling. It’s just a feeling. It’s like how do you tell somebody how it feels to be in love? How are you going to tell anybody who hasn’t been in love how it feels to be in love? You cannot do it to save your life. You c ..read more

? Looks like you’re interested in learning tarot. Have you checked out Tarot in Community, my online space for queers, feminists, and leftists to learn tarot and merge it with their work in the world? The waitlist is open! ? Need help making tarot stick in your brain? Grab this freebie Image Description: A bunch of tarot cards splattered about The Modern Phrasal approach is a novel method of learning tarot. It queers older card meanings by applying them to a wider context of human life. Each phrase is built for modern concerns, attention spans, and situations.  I developed the Modern Ph ..read more

Psst! At the end of this month, I’m launching a Tarot in Community, an online space for queers, feminists, and leftists to learn tarot, and merge it with their work in the world. Sign up for the waitlist here! a light skinned black person with a warm brown afro looking toward the sun. They are wearing glasses, a leather motorcycle jacket, red lipstick, and a red floral shirt with buttons. the background is blue with a wavy texture. On the first day of 2020, I drew the Ace of Spades and The Big Joker. I knew my grandmother was going to die. There would be other signs to come. It felt obvious ..read more

a person in a gold dress standing in in sunglasses and braids in front of a daisy backgrounds flanked by two black and white flowers.   The Seven of Pentacles is the best representative of its suit.  This is a card of hard work. It's a card of reliability, of patience, of focus. We find ourselves in the Seven of Pentacles when we're elbow deep in a new hobby, or getting to know a new love.  The Seven of Pentacles asks us to work regardless of our feelings. It wants us to achieve regardless of the odds, and despite our circumstances.  It's the midpoint of the fourteen card ..read more

two black folks with locs in black and white on a distorted floral background. In leftist communities, the phrase "scarcity is a myth" is practically an article of faith. One part self-help, two parts flat out lie, the belief that scarcity doesn't exist gets smeared across a range of scenarios. Got a friend who hasn't been fucked in five years? That's their problem, scarcity is a myth. Your boss laid you off and replaced you with the AI you programmed? Quit your bellyachin' and log on to LinkedIn because scarcity is a myth. Your sister says she can't get a date when her cane is visible in her ..read more

Conflict occurs in all relationships. It can agitate our fears of abandonment. It can reactivate our trauma. It may even cause us to act our instinctive urge to self-sabotage, our death drive. Conflict can bring out the worst in us. When we're in conflict, our first stance is often to defend ourselves. Defensiveness is the enemy of intuition. That's because when we are rushing to our own defense, we aren't listening to the other person. We may not even be listening to ourselves. In the throws of conflict we may lash out. We may act up. We may sow the seeds of our own embarrassment. The Seven ..read more

image description: hands with vitiligo typing on a rose gold laptop. the background has daisies on it. Is your job search leaving you asleep on your keyboard? Do you spend meetings sneaky scrollin the Girlboss newsletter's help wanted ads? Have you given up on finding a job that doesn't suck, or at least suck less? Hold on there, queermo. Have you consulted your deck? That's right. In addition to the million and one other ways to work with tarot, you can make some questions to find a great job. One that leaves your hair follicles intact. (Get it, because you'll stop tearing it out in rage!) I ..read more

A key on a light blue background Tarot and other intuitive work can help you find (and keep) a job! I know because it's how I find and keep jobs. And anybody who knows me knows I stay with a job. He's booked and busy, baby! Sometimes too much even! (We all have our faults. My work boundaries are something I'm, well, working on.) There is no spiritual work that I have done fore myself that has been more impactful than my work around jobs. Ain't no shame in my game when I lay down some work to make my work life easier, more efficient, or even plain better! This country hates employing trans peo ..read more

Part four of four in the Queering Tarot’s Court Cards series. Check out part one, Queering Tarot’s Pages, here. Read part two, Queering Tarot’s Knights, here. Read part three, Queering Tarot’s Kings, here. A black and white hand holding a scroll with a flower on a purple and pink grainy background. When tarot lovers attempt to contextualize tarot's Queens, they often point to interiority. Sources may say that Kings deal with the external world, leaving the Queens to think about the internal world. Modern tarot readers and scholars have attempted to upend this context. Some have disregarded t ..read more