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Make Yr Life: Queering Tarot's Pages
Regardless of our path to ourselves, we have all had page moments. Queer life is full of them.
I'm not talking about coming out, although that may be one for you. I'm talking about coming into your own. I'm talking about seeing your path unfold before you, and co-creating your life.
Intuition for Queer Empaths
Empaths don't always know the difference between helping and butting in. They struggle with staying out of other people's business, because it's often accessible to them.
They may even have trouble separating their feelings from those of others.
How to Get Started with a New Deck of Tarot Cards
So you've brought home your first deck of tarot cards. Congratulations!
Now what?
I'm sure you're fighting the urge to rip the plastic sleeve open with your teeth and start shuffling. I need you to resist that urge.
Tarot for Writers
For many of us, a tool like tarot can open our intuition.
This is because tarot gives us an opportunity to be introspective, to turn inward, and listen deeply.
Intuition is a combination of listening to the self-inside one's self, and applying what you gather there to whatever task is at hand.
So let's get into some points of intuitive intervention for writers.
Archetypal Reduction: The Empress, Beyoncé, and Capitalism
“Archetypal reduction is when people and events get pigeonholed into a single archetype. This isn't ideal, because almost all of us embody more than one archetype.
It's a way of neglecting human complexity. It can be a path to celebrity worship. More than anything, it's rarely accurate. “
In Defense of Autistic Trans Self-Determination
On April 13th, 2023, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey put into effect an emergency order barring trans healthcare in his state. In 2023’s onslaught of trans-hating legislation, this is the first ban of gender affirming care for trans adults. This order is a perfect storm, a convergence of anti-trans hate and medical ableism that leaves trans people throughout the United States vulnerable to violence
Money Magic for Anti-Capitalists
Capitalism's fucked up. It isolates us from another. It means that some people are unable to meet their need for connection, food, clothing, and shelter.
It also means that some people's needs go unmet while a small group of people take and waste too much.
Enter magic, with its emphasis on personal power. For some forms of extra capitalist witchcraft, this is a form of self empowerment.
How (and Why) to Read Reversed Tarot Cards
Consider this your (short!) introduction to reading the upside-downies, or reversals, whatever. Regardless of what you call them, here's some strategies for making sense of them.
Five of Wands Reversed
One method of reading reversed cards is returning to the work of the preceding card.
For the 5 of Wands reversed, one would have to revisit the 4 of Wands. The 4 of Wands is the beginning of harmony.
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- tarot
- queer tarot
- Capitalism
- Major Arcana
- Tarot for Liberation
- Minor Arcana
- Personal History
- court cards
- acolyte cards
- The Empress
- cartomancy
- divination
- The Devil
- Intuition
- Emotions
- Learn Tarot
- Anti-Capitalism
- Tarot in Community
- Spirituality
- The Hierophant
- Black Church
- spellwork
- Love
- minor arcana
- politics
- Money
- Relationships
- disability justice
- Spiritual Hygiene
- Pop Culture
- technology
- aphrodite
- dream interpretation
- Reading for Yourself
- Free Downloads
- Tarot for Writers
- Card Meanings
- Ace of Pentacles
- card reading
- Queer Tarot
- mythology
- Nine of Pentacles
- Black History
- Cups
- Reading Tarot
- 🌿Grounded Intuition
- Ten of Pentacles
- Empaths
- Justice
- queer
Through free thought, by which I mean attention to detail, inquiry, and understanding, we can see that the work of tarot’s Swords isn’t good or bad.
Through free thought, we can see the role systems play in our limited ability to see the truth and accept reality. Our unwillingness or inability to think and scheme freely limits our capacity for action.
It all but ensures that we will act without thinking, and reap the consequences about which the Swords warn.