Oh man, am I excited to try to write about this card. I draw it (mostly reversed) in almost all of my readings these days. I can ask about my creativity, my love life, my future, my kids, even old relationships and situations long gone, and there it will be – upside down. It’s clearly […]
The Wheel of Fortune isn’t too different from how it sounds. It has to do with all we associate with fortune – luck (perhaps good luck), random chance, a little touch of so-called karma. It can talk about changing tides and unexpected windfalls. But the wheel part also has some sway over the meaning. Natural […]
I imagine a decent percentage of people already know what pick-a-card readings are, but I’ll fill you in just in case: a generous subset of YouTube mystics offer up somewhere between three and ∞ piles of tarot and oracle cards, having shuffled them with a particular quandary in mind. Will you succeed? Do they like […]
The first thing that comes to mind when I draw the Hermit card is isolation. However often I draw it, however many descriptions I read about it, I still think, first and foremost, of aloneness. Maybe it’s because I’ve spent so much of my life alone, or because I both dread and crave time to […]
There’s something interesting about the Strength card. It doesn’t deal with brute force. Like the Emperor, the first type of power that comes to your mind likely misses the mark. Strength, the card, is about patience and persistence, not strong-arming your way through life, battling to prove yourself. That’s more the domain of the Chariot, […]