Short and sweet post for you tonight! It's spreads day on Patreon, and this month's topics generated a bonus spread to share here. We're riffing on themes from the #OccultTea conversation. It's one thing to gather thoughts for a public conversation, and quite another to grapple with these topics in our daily lives as they arise to hazard us. So here's a simple and handy tarot spread for airing out your FOMO. Sometimes FOMO can be super motivating and inspiring, and connect us to our desires. Other times it suuuucks and just makes us feel bad about not doing stuff we might not even want to do ..read more

I rarely hop on roundups, but I heard about the #OccultTea conversation through Laura Tempest Zakroff’s Patreon community, and the group got into such a juicy conversation there, I kept thinking about the questions. So let’s try this! Credit & thanks to @ella.harrison @the.redheadedwitch and @polish.folk.witch for putting this together. The questions are in bold. They’re in caps cause I copy/pasted from the graphics, which used a caps style font (re-posted below, courtesy of the organizers). My responses are my own opinions, but they’re not all unique, and I’ve been enjoying catching othe ..read more

Hi Friends! We're down to the last couple days on Kickstarter--be sure to reserve your decks now to catch those killer early prices & the digital SWAG. I've finished designing the printouts for the E-SWAG and Home Tarot Spellbook bundles, and wanted to share some ideas for making the most of your digital downloads. You don't need my downloads to work with the tips we're about to run through! Fun crafty techniques for all here. But we have got quite a lot of handouts to work with now between the free ebooks here, the Patreon spreads, and the kickstarter-exclusive digital downloads I'm abo ..read more

Fortune and Her Wheel circa 1467, via Wikimedia Commons. The tarot pages are the students of the deck. The Page’s Journey is a series of articles on learning tarot, geared for new beginners, and curious onlookers. I outlined this series while working on my upcoming book, but I wanted to post these articles here for free, to help out folx who are totally new. Most of what we’ll cover here is common knowledge in the field; some is my personal opinion. I’ll post one of these each Sunday till we’ve run through the basics. Mid week, we’ll have more of our usual fare—salty spreads, cultural rambl ..read more

We touched on cleansing in our last couple posts, including a tarot spread on the theme of cleansing and housekeeping during times of stress. It’s worth diving deeper on this topic. What does cleansing even mean in the context of spirituality, religion, psi, magic, witchcraft, or a tarot practice? My views don’t speak to or for everyone. Generally, I find semantic conversations in occultsville most helpful and interesting when they clarify where we’re coming from, and contextualize any given writer, artist, note-trader, or meme-slinger’s offerings. I find a lot of semantic bickering and lang ..read more

This is the seventh spread in a collection designed in response to the ongoing covid crisis, and all the rapid changes and shakeups it has wrought. This is a disabled/ill friendly space and comments are moderated. The fact that Covid is still happening is not up for debate. That this still matters to higher-risk communities is not up for debate. Any anti-vaxxing noise, pseudo-science, or eugenics masquerading as spirituality will get deleted & blocked. Check out The People’s CDC for quality updates on transmission rates and how you can help protect yourself and your community. Soooo… tyi ..read more

I got a request on Kickstarter for a preview of a card description in the guidebook, and I thought that would make a perfect topic for this weekend's blog post. Why not? I'm self publishing, so let's kick off the "look inside" experience here. The Black Ink and Interrobang Tarot Deck Kickstarter is going great btw! We got funded on day one, and just yesterday, became a staff pick. The Black Ink Tarot is officially a project we love! Major gratitude to all the backers making this happen--you folx are awesome and I'm so excited to get these projects in your hands. When we get to 100 backers, I ..read more

Goodness, what a day! Tonight's post is short, sweet, and full of gratitude, friends. The Black Ink Tarot and Interrobang Tarot decks hit Kickstarter today, after years in development, and you guys really showed up and came through. We met our fundraising goals not only on day one, but in about the first seven hours of the campaign! I'm floored, and so delighted. Our early bird specials flew much more quickly than expected, so as a special thank you to early backers, everyone who pledges in the first 24 hours will receive a free copy of the Tarot Home Spellbook downloads.  That's a $10 ..read more

The tarot pages are the students of the deck. The Page’s Journey is a series of articles on learning tarot, geared for new beginners, and curious onlookers. I outlined this series while working on my upcoming book, but I wanted to post these articles here for free, to help out folx who are totally new. Most of what we’ll cover here is common knowledge in the field; some is my personal opinion. I’ll post one of these each Sunday till we’ve run through the basics. On Wednesdays, we’ll have more of our usual fare—salty spreads, cultural ramblings, intermediate articles, art talk, etc. So You’re ..read more

Two Decks Headed To Kickstarter! Hi Friends! I've had my head down, working non-stop on long-form projects these last few years, including the upcoming full length tarot book, Fortune's Inkwell. I'm so excited to announce that it's time to shake the dust off the blog here (keep reading for a protective new tarot spread after the updates). It's also finally time to start releasing the long projects! I needed time and space away from the whole Hive to complete the book, and to process some personal stuff the pandemic kicked up in solitude. I've been very quiet on social media, and the public ..read more