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We can make a home of our souls again.
I still have access to the purest truest parts of me. I still have magic, I still have words, and the access to them when I'm ready for them.
The firelight we ignite in ourselves today is the beacon that we once followed through the darkest parts of our shadow.
I didn't intend to draw an intention setting card for my new space, or maybe I did and just didn't want to admit it, and that is what I got. I'm glad my subconscious knew better and asked for one anyway.
An interview with the creator of the Shrine of the Black Medusa tarot. A visually rich and gripping deck created by Casey Rocheteau.
I found a great three-card spread to use for daily and weekly guidance from the Gain Tarot digital tarot app. It's called the Soul Practices spread and I find it has such a great flow and is endlessly useful as far as I can vision.
Get excited! Four upcoming diverse tarot decks to wait impatiently for.
As a healer with marginalized identities I claim that I am due more than just sadness; I tire of it. I am due the full breadth of my anger and rage.
I lived through those difficult years not because I stopped being crazy but because of the femmes who recognized my crazy and chose not to throw me away. Femmes believed me and saved me and gave me bloodstone necklaces and coconut head rogations and rosemary tea and spat gin on the back of my neck and weaved amethyst crystals into my waist beads and weaved hawthorn rose wreathes around me and pulled me back from the brink and showed me how to work the shadow for my light.
A spread you can work as you move into any new horizon in your life.
You ever get into a tarot funk? These are some of the methods that have been successful in getting me back to my cards.
Some tarot decks you can look away from. Your eye glazes over the art and you look for what you want to find; you seek out what you're used to finding in a particular card, careless of what's there that doesn't fit. Enter The Mary-El Tarot: Landscapes of the Abyss, and I dare you to look away.
Can be honest about the power of words, the power of naming, and the power of capitalism and privilege that relies on watering down entire people's traditions, memories, and spiritual technologies for its own deification and profit?
We can make a home of our souls again.