Hearth & Horizon

One thing I'm celebrating is that I seemed semi-consistent with my tarot practice last month. I wasn't able to pull a spread daily, but I was not expecting to maintain that level of consistency either. I may be an idealist at heart, but my feet are still on the ground. Looking through my journal, I was looking for any trends or anything that jumped out at me. I noted that the suits I pulled the most were wands and swords, the suit I pulled the least was pentacles. Of the pip cards I'd pulled, I pulled 8s the most and pulled no 2 cards at all. So, I'm thinking on what last month looked like and how it relates to these stats. Wands and swords are both active elements and pretty expansive. Fire burns and air circulates, feeding into each other. They're not really two sides of a coin, but they seem to play off one another. Your thoughts and dreams will be apparent in where you place your drive and energy. Eights tend to represent skills, business, manifestation, decisio...

As I said in my previous post, I am making the effort to reintegrate tarot as a practice in my daily life. I started today with an open mind, well, I tried to. For one, there's a level of feeling like I'm an imposter here. I don't believe that I actually count as a tarot reader. Whether that's realism or some nagging shadow whispering in my ear, I'm still not sure. I think that I see other practitioners out on the web and they seem like they just know  how things work. But, I have to ask myself. What makes someone who uses tarot a reader? Have they done readings for other people? Have they gathered a certain number of reference books or decks? Do they have a page where people purchase readings from them? There's a post from Substack that I think of right now. The author writes that sometimes we cling to motivational identities to comfort ourselves and forget to actually become what we are idealizing and daydreaming about.  Maybe you could be a great writer, but ...

Well, I might be overstating myself in the title. I have dabbled with tarot as a practice on and off for about a year and a half. And for about the last seven months, my deck has sat untouched. Despite that, I still tend to think of myself as a tarot reader, though "tarot learner" is probably more accurate. While I do tend to have a distracted streak, we have had an eventful year that left us in survival mode for the majority of it. From moving to a new house, bringing home a new puppy, handling family health scares, and just trying to keep an even keel amongst all the changes, we were more focused on getting through it than anything else. Now that things have finally settled down, it feels like we can take a breath and look around at the life that we've built and decide what we want to cultivate in it. Taking this newfound free time, I decided to break out my deck and sling a couple cards. This time, I used the "Back on Track" spread from Rose B Mystics, but ...