Thoughts and Musings

Unless you are shuffling very carefully, there’s a chance you’ll end up with some cards that appear upside down, otherwise known as a reversal. While working with reversals is a choice within Tarot, they can be an invitation to consider an alternate aspect of the card’s upright meaning. Some readers love them. Others hate them. A lot of people simply feel too intimidated to try. You don’t need reversals to get a rich reading, but they can bring another layer to your interac

I read Tarot for years before I studied Jung. So by the time I entered Jungian analytic training, I already knew the Empress. I knew the particular quality of her sovereignty, the way she could mean fertility in one reading and creative authority in another and a kind of sensual self-possession in a third. She was a figure I'd sat with. She wasn't a concept waiting to be named. Which is probably why I felt something sink when I signed up for a one-day class on Tarot and arche