How to Perform Memorable Readings
A performance art As I'm very fond of saying, tarot and other divination arts are a performance art. And that is not to disparage it. Most of the media we consume has a way of sticking with us fo...
How the Zodiac Became Your Horoscope
What's your sign? In 1972, Harry Nilsson sang the words They say you never made it with a Gemini. This speaks to the ubiquity of astrology in 70s dating culture, as exemplified by that song's tit...
Myths and Realities of Tarot Traditions
Don't touch my cards Have you ever made a move to admire someone's deck of tarot cards only to have your hands slapped away and have the reader go, "Hey, don't touch those; that's bad." Often the...
How to Choose Your Everyday Carry for Divination
Tools you can bring with you anywhere you go Divination is an art form, and just like any art form, it benefits from practice. But we all lead very busy lives, and it can be very difficult to find ...
The True History of Futhark Rune Casting
Did runes come from Odin? It is said that the Futhark runes were gifted to us by Odin, who had to sacrifice himself on the tree Yggdrasil in order to obtain their mystic sacred knowledge. However...
The Merits of Collecting Tarot Decks
The value of having a large collection Back when I did content creation for TikTok, I remember responding to a TikTok video that a creator did saying you don't need 20 decks. In my response video...
Understanding Change with the I Ching
Change is at the heart of divination At the heart of every divination system is the idea of change. And why shouldn't it be? As I've said many times in the past, there'd be no point in divination...
How to Use Divination to Give Good Advice
Find out who you are Find out who you are and do it on purpose with purpose. This was a fantastic piece of advice given by the late, great Dolly Parton. Now, at least as far as I can tell, Dolly ...
An Introduction to the Lenormand Oracle
Named after the person who inspired it One of the ways that we commemorate the contributions that inventors have made to our culture is to name their famous inventions after them. Tarot was, of c...
Three Intuitive Techniques for Guidebook-Free Reading
You don't have to memorize everything There's a popular understanding that one thing that makes a quote-unquote professional tarot reader more professional is that they don't have to look things ...
Is Tarot a scam? Back when I used to do TikTok, there was a common type of comment that would come up on my videos. They would say tarot is a scam and they're just trying to get your money. And o...
Why randomness matters If there's one thing most, if not all, elements of divination arts have in common, it's the concept of randomness, or using an object whose output is randomized in some way...
What do I think of oracle decks? I get asked about oracle decks a lot. People ask me, what do you think of oracle decks? Are they any good? Should I be using them? That sort of thing. And my gene...
Why Read with the Tarot de Marseille
Can you read poker cards like tarot? A common question I get is: can you read poker cards the same way you read tarot? The answer is yes, especially if you're familiar with the Tarot de Marseille...
Every journey starts somewhere Every journey has to start somewhere, which means that every tarot journey starts somewhere. Every divination journey starts somewhere. Every podcast journey starts...
