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In The Power of Ritual: Turning Everyday Activitie

In The Power of Ritual: Turning Everyday Activities into Soulful Practices, author and Harvard Divinity School Fellow Casper ter Kuile explores different ways we can find meaning, purpose, and connection in everyday rituals, especially now that so many of us no longer seek these things within traditionally religious spaces and communities.
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And, to probably nobody’s surprise, the way that sparked the interest of this literature professor the most was the ritual of ✨SACRED READING, or LECTIO DIVINA.✨
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As I read about this sacred reading practice, I quickly realized that it could be applied to tarot as well. Really naturally and beautifully in fact!⁠
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In this week’s tarot newsletter, I lay out the steps of lectio divina, or reading sacred texts, and show you exactly how to incorporate this beautiful ritual into your existing tarot practice to elevate and transform your tarot readings. I even give you a peek into my tarot journaling on the 9 of Pentacles.

If you didn't get it emailed to you this weekend, read it by going you know where! 👉🏼🔗🪪@thetarotprofessor👈🏼

Let me know if you try this method with your tarot cards! Have you read The Power of Ritual? If so, what did you think?

Hi! 👋🏼 I’m Annie, writer of a best-selling

Hi! 👋🏼 I’m Annie, writer of a best-selling tarot newsletter on Substack called Office Hours with The Tarot Professor. I’m also an English professor.

I’ve been working with tarot for ten years, and it has been such a transformative force in my life that my mission is to bring its powers of self-discovery and intuitive guidance to others.

As an academic, I’m an intellectual and even a bit of a skeptic! I’m not a fortune-teller, and I don’t read tarot professionally. I read tarot for myself and teach others to do the same. My lens as a literature and mythology professor allows me to decode tarot as the rich and ridiculously relatable text that it is. In my newsletter, I dive deep into tarot archetypes and symbolism, illuminate themes, and apply them to our own lives to better understand ourselves and the world around us. (To learn more about that, you know where to go 👉🏼🔗🪪@thetarotprofessor)

I’d love to learn more about you! Please say hi below and tell me about yourself. What’s your tarot practice like? What led you to it? Have any questions for me? Ask away! 🌻

I’ve been reading The Power of Ritual: Turning E

I’ve been reading The Power of Ritual: Turning Everyday Activities into Soulful Practices by Casper Ter Kuile. It is inspiring me in so many fun and creative ways! I checked it out from the library but I’m pretty sure I’m going to purchase a copy for myself so I can return to it again. Have you read it? It inspired this quick tarot tip as well:

QUICK TAROT TIP: Rituals are great ways to transition into ✨tarot mode✨ and tune into our intuition. But tarot rituals are not one size fits all. Feel free to be as simple or ceremonial as you like. Do what works for you!

Do you have any tarot rituals that you do before, during, or after any readings? Let me know below!

I created this Carpe Diem Tarot Spread a couple ye

I created this Carpe Diem Tarot Spread a couple years ago before the new year. It was my way of psyching myself up to make the upcoming year - was it 2024? 2023 perhaps? - really count.

I’ve been feeling the need to revisit it now, so I thought I’d share it here too. I love that it is not goal-oriented or productivity focused. Not because those things aren’t important, but because I don’t think those are the things that make our days count.

Let me know if you try this spread! Be sure to save it so you can return to it later. 🌟

Swipe through for some Numerology 101 to help you

Swipe through for some Numerology 101 to help you interpret your tarot cards, especially the Minor Arcana cards of your tarot deck.⁠
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What does 9 mean in tarot? (Image 1)⁠
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Numerology is the study of the spiritual energy of numbers, Tarot relies on these traditional symbolic meanings of numbers, especially for the pip cards in the minor arcana of the tarot deck. (Image 2)⁠
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In numerology, 9 represents hardship, endurance, and appreciation. It often means we are in the home stretch! (Image 3)⁠
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The numerological energy of 9 can be seen in the nines of each tarot suit. For instance, the Nine of Pentacles shows appreciation for the beauty and abundance around us, while the Nine of Wands shows endurance through immense effort or hardship. (Image 4)⁠
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Save this post if you found it helpful! We’ve got one more left in the series! Check out my numerology story highlight for the rest of them! 💜

I’ve been working with tarot for at least a deca

I’ve been working with tarot for at least a decade, and it has been such a transformative force in my life that my mission is to bring its powers of self-discovery and intuitive guidance to others.⁠
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I’m also an academic - an intellectual and even a bit of a skeptic! I’m not a medium, I’m not a fortune-teller, and I don’t read tarot professionally. I read tarot for myself and teach others to do the same. My lens as a literature and mythology professor allows me to decode tarot as a rich, gorgeous text: to dive deep into tarot archetypes and symbolism, illuminate themes, and apply them to our own lives to better understand ourselves and the world around us.⁠
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In my tarot newsletter, Office Hours with The Tarot Professor, I share what I’m grappling with in my own life, offer practical tarot spreads, tips, and more, and even host 10-day tarot challenges and tarot book clubs! I love this tarot community! Won't you just us!? ⁠
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Go to you know where to go for more info 👉🏼🔗🪪@thetarotprofessor👈🏼😘

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