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    Back to School Shopping – Tarot Edition!

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    How to Read a Tarot Spread

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    What Does the Knight of Wands Tarot Card Mean?

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    What Does the Page of Wands Tarot Card Mean?

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    How to Shuffle Tarot Cards: 3 Ways!

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    6 Tarot Spreads for Love and Relationships

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    How to Start a Daily Tarot Practice – from scratch!

    The best way to learn to read tarot and stay connected to your cards and intuition is to start a daily tarot practice. Here's how to start your own daily tarot ritual from scratch…

    January 31, 2023
  • The Star tarot card in the Major Arcana is ruled by Aquarius. Here is a quick and easy tarot trick to manifest the authenticity of the Star this Aquarius season

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    Two super fun and simple tarot spreads to embrace the energy of Aquarius season - or for tarot reading any time of the year!…

    January 22, 2023
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    How to Read Reversals in Tarot – 4 Ways!

    How do you read reversals in tarot? Here are four ways to interpret reversed tarot cards.…

    January 13, 2023
  • Pile of Tarot Cards from Moon Baby Tarot Deck

    Setting New Year Intentions with Tarot

    My step-by-step process for setting more authentic and aligned intentions and goals for the new year - with tarot cards!…

    December 30, 2022
  • Sun and Moon Candles, Pine Cones, Holly Berries, and Stars for Winter Solstice Decorations

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    Wondering how and why to celebrate the Winter Solstice (or Yule)? Here are six ritual ideas for you to try this year.…

    December 20, 2022
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    3 Tarot Spreads to Reflect at the End of the Year

    I love a fresh start as much as the next girl. But before we dive head first into the new year, an end of year reflection is in order. In fact, tarot cards are…

    December 16, 2022
  • The Temperance tarot card in the Major Arcana is ruled by Sagittarius. Here is a quick and easy tarot trick to manifest the healing alchemy of Temperance this Sagittarius season

    Two Tarot Spreads Inspired by Sagittarius Season

    Two super fun and simple tarot spreads to embrace the energy of Sagittarius season - or for tarot readings any time of the year!…

    November 27, 2022
  • TAROT CARD MEANINGS: Difference Between LOVERS and 2 OF CUPS

    The Difference Between the Lovers and the Two of Cups in Tarot

    What's the difference between the Lovers and the 2 of Cups tarot cards? After this post, you'll never have trouble telling these tarot cards apart again!…

    October 1, 2022
  • High Priestess and Empress Major Arcana Tarot Cards from Moon Baby Tarot Deck

    Tarot Basics: The Difference Between the Major and Minor Arcana

    Learn more about the difference between the Major and Minor Arcana cards to deepen and enrich your tarot readings.…

    July 13, 2022
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    If you have a particular tarot card that keeps showing up in tarot readings for yourself and you want to figure out what it means, this is the post (and video) for you!…

    June 19, 2022
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If you're in Los Angeles, register for the first 2 If you're in Los Angeles, register for the first 2026 gathering of The Tarot Circle in Silverlake on Sat. 1/3! The Tarot Circle is a FREE and friendly meet-up powered by @creativemorning for anybody who is curious (or obsessed!) with tarot. Last month's hang was so fun so register at the |ink in my bi0 to join us this time!⁠
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Here's some more info: ⁠
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The Tarot Circle is a welcoming space where tarot newbies and seasoned tarot readers alike can explore tarot together as a tool for self-discovery, reflection, and connecting to our intuition.⁠
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In the Tarot Circle, we'll share and discover new tarot spreads, discuss archetypal symbols and insights, get second opinions when we need them, and just hang out with fellow tarot enthusiasts.⁠
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I hope people will show up with a spirit of openness, curiosity, kindness, and play. Tarot can be a magical and sacred practice, and also a fun one! So if you're in L.A., please join us!⁠
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Again, go to the |ink in my bi0 for all the details. Or just DM me! I hope to see you there and get to hang out in person! 💖
Reading tarot for myself is one of the primary way Reading tarot for myself is one of the primary ways I check in with myself, tap into my intuition, and find my footing when life (and my ego!) gets loud. ⁠
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In The Tarot Professor, my best-selling Substack column, I write about tarot as a reflective practice of intuitive self-discovery. I linger with a single tarot card, explore the myths and archetypes that seem to relate to what the card is showing me at the time, notice patterns, and share my insights and tips to help you expand your own tarot practice. ⁠
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The images in this post all come from recent posts, each centered on a single tarot card and what opened up for me as I sat with it thoughtfully, before I started yammering away to you about it at my keyboard, of course.⁠
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If you are drawn to tarot as a tool for reflection, intuitive meaning-making, and becoming, I think you'll enjoy what I'm writing over there. ⁠👉🏼🔗🪪 @thetarotprofessor 👈🏼⁠
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Hawaii Reset Part 2! 🍍🌺 So I have a confess Hawaii Reset Part 2! 🍍🌺

So I have a confession to make. If it wasn’t for my nephews and sharing this fun vacation with them, I probably wouldn’t have booked it. I see my husband all the time, I would say to myself. I can hang out with him at home, where I can conveniently also dive into my writing and creative work in earnest now that the semester is over and the emails have finally stopped. (Spoiler alert: The emails never stop and there will always be something pulling me away from my creative endeavors.) So that juggling is something I am focusing on doing differently in 2026. (Among other things.)

It’s also fun traveling with kids because my travel research looks SO different. Would I have rented a car to drive to the North Shore to visit the ridiculously commercialized (but well done I must say) Dole plantation and purchased gigantically juicy chunks of pineapple dipped in milk chocolate after a ride on the Pineapple Express (“yes, just like the Polar Express, but make it Hawai’i ”) without my nephews there? Probably not. 

Also for someone obsessed with turtlenecks and bookshops and London, I had a lot of Hawai’i appropriate attire hiding in my closet! Here’s to more of the atypical in 2026! 🏝️🐚

What’s something you want to experience more of in 2026?
I have learned over time that it’s so important I have learned over time that it’s so important to reflect and celebrate before charging ahead. “Never look back” is commonly touted and often misapplied when actually, like the Hermit in tarot, we need to look back occasionally to see how we have grown and what we have experienced.⁠
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It helps to see where we’ve been and where we stand now before we charge ahead to where we want to go next.⁠
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🍾With that said, my end of year reflection TAROT SPREAD is here!🍾⁠
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Here are the ten - yes TEN 😮🤩 - questions in case you can’t read them in the images:⁠
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1. A major theme I explored in 2025⁠
2. Something I manifested in 2025⁠
3. A reason to be grateful for 2025⁠
4. Something I learned in 2025⁠
5. A challenge I overcame in 2025⁠
6. How I’ve grown in the past year⁠
7. One way 2025 surprised me⁠
8. One way I took care of myself in 2025⁠
9. One way I helped others in 2025⁠
10. What I wish I did differently in 2025⁠
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Settle in with your tarot journals for this one. I wish you a cozy, compassionate, and celebratory final week of 2025! 🥂☕️🌟
The moon is waxing! Which means transitioning from The moon is waxing! Which means transitioning from new to full, growing brighter each night.⁠
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In lunar astrology, the waxing moon is a powerful window for expansion, intention, and forward motion. It highlights what’s beginning to gather energy and wants room to develop.⁠
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Did you know that we can use our tarot cards to help harness this moon energy? Pull a tarot card and ask, "How am I ready to grow during this moon cycle?" As you look at the card you pulled, notice what it seems to be showing you is ready to expand, stretch, build, or deepen. ⁠
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If you pull a card, I’d love to hear what comes up for you. Let me know below! 🌙💜
This past week looked like palm trees, rainstorms, This past week looked like palm trees, rainstorms, fish tanks, boba breaks, botanical gardens, and working on absolutely nothing—something I’m honestly not very good at. Being in Waikīkī helps though! ☺️🍍

After finishing my fall semester and submitting final grades, can you believe I was actually annoyed that I had planned this time for rest - REAL rest? 🤦🏻‍♀️ I can’t help it. Turning off doesn’t come naturally to me! Winter “break” for me means creative agendas, productivity, glow-ups, etc. Which is bullshit when you’re completely burned out. 

So ACTUAL rest meant no ambitious travel itineraries either. Just wandering, eating, laughing, watching the weather change, playing with my nephews, and letting my nervous system catch up with my body.

Hawai’i was silly and spontaneous and sometimes boring and other times hilarious and yummy and soaked through with rain and family time. Which I hear is usually the point of vacations!

I learned that rest doesn’t always have to be quiet, which might be obvious to you but it was an exciting revelation for me. Sometimes restoration looks like play. I can get on board with that! Maybe. Small doses at a time. 😉

Part 2 coming! 🌴✨
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