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The time of the full moon is a highly magickal time. As this celestial body shines her glory down upon us, it gives us a great opportunity to both create sacred spaces and perform tarot readings. One great way to do this is to craft a Full Moon Tarot altar. This altar will allow you to utilize your witchy strengths to create the most powerful altar personalized just for you and your cards. An altar, for the purposes of this discussion, is a temporary space set up for sacred work, honoring, and spiritual practices. Here you can light candles, leave offerings, say prayers or petitions, and last, but not least, do tarot readings. The Moon card in the tarot is an incredible one. It shows us ...
A spread is essentially a storyboard that allows the reader to sequentially follow a pattern that is designed to address a particular topic. Some spreads cover all the bases, whereas others are specific to certain decks and issues. The most commonly used spread is called the Celtic Cross, which has been modified and adapted ad infinitum since its inception. It is highly effective for general overviews of a situation and the energies present. Without a spread, a reading can be clumsy and awkward, with no parameters to hold the energy of the question being asked. For instance, a simple three-card spread is almost meaningless if we have not assigned a function to each card. It can be as ...
Bright splashes of vivid watercolor and a colorful cast of gender-queer merfolk give Llewellyn's soon to be released Seaborn Kipper deck a unique, seaside vibe. Most closely resembling Lenormand, Kipper is a 36-card divination system with origins in 19th-century Germany. Its direct nature makes it a powerful tool for garnering clear insights, and it can be useful to those seeking to understand present influences as well as future probabilities. The project is a joint effort between Thomas Witholt and Siolo Thompson, creators who have completed several other tarot, oracle, and Lenormand decks. Further honoring the spirit of collaboration, both creators answered a few essential questions ...
The tarot invites us to free our minds to the imprint of their meaning upon our lives at any point in time. There are a plethora of traditional, time-honored interpretations we can bring to our tarot practices. However, making tarot personal and intimate goes beyond standard interpretations. In order to take flight into the poetry of the tarot, we must entertain the myriad ways in which each card can be interpreted in collaboration with the other cards. It is essential to include our intuitive impulses, plus our own mental connecting prowess, not just book meanings. Surrendering ourselves into the vastness of the tarot requires building a relationship with it that is separate from ...
