"As Queering the Tarot has progressed, it’s become so much about community and collective healing." Tarot writer Cassandra Snow on what she learned writing our best-loved column.
Get to know…Cassandra Snow
Heathen’s Journey | Wunjo & the sacred rebellion of joy
"A lot of people (myself included) often think of happiness like 'I’ll know it when I see it.' But - what does happiness feel like?" Abbie explores the rune for joy.
Get to know…Luke Dani Blue (& their dog)
"I think when change means loosening the locks on our internal cages, it feels like freedom and relief. Any homo who’s come out to themselves or trans person who finally got hormones knows what that’s like."
REVIEW | Tattoo Tarot: Ink & Intuition
Traci reviews a new deck that blends traditional tattoo symbolism with tarot.
Astrology vs Astrologism: An extract from Astrology & Storytelling by Alice Sparkly Kat
"When we talk about astrology, there’s this idea that astrology is something to be believed in. But astrology is only the study of change and its meaning."
Introducing… my new website!
It’s a simple, heartfelt offering of the work I want to be doing right now - with you, with our WitchyQueer community, with the owners of tiny spiritual businesses in this big, chaotic world.
Queering the Tarot | Nine of Pentacles
A card of luxury, the Nine of Pentacles shows us rise to a prosperous state and offers us a chance to look around, smell the roses, and be grateful.
Ritual & Honey | A healer’s work in the riot
Asali shares suggestions for healers who want to push back against the darkness of social atrocities, from dreaming to speaking, donating to working your unique magic.
Star-Crossed | Romantic Neptune: Fantasy boyfriends & breakups from hell
With Neptune, beauty and pain come mixed together. But that doesn’t mean Neptune-dwellers are doomed to suffer in love, much as that might fit their romantic self-image.
See the Cripple Dance | Leaving things unfinished while wandering & recalibrating with the Seven of Pentacles
Maranda on sickness as a sign that life has become unmanageable again.
The Garden | 103 ways to build a feminist online tarot shop
What kinds of attitudes and practices can help us craft feminist, anticapitalist online businesses? 103 ideas.
Queering the Tarot: Eight of Pentacles
"The biggest way this card manifests in our queer lives is when we are learning to pave our own way." Cassandra shares some LGBTQ+ specific interpretations of the Eight of Pentacles.
Facing Demons: A tarot spread series for deep psychological work
"Beginning deep psychological or shadow work is not without its perils. The Facing Demons tarot spread series offers you access to clear messages that will light your way through the labyrinth of the unconscious."
Heathen’s Journey | Gyfu: Gifts for the collective
Gyfu is one of my favorite runes, because it is in this rune where we can start to crack open and get to the soft underbelly of heathenry.
Tarot as a Path of Healing | Making altars
"Altar making is like creating an open invitation for us to take up more space in our lives starting with the essential ritual of calling ourselves to return home." Alexis explores the crafting of altars using tarot cards.
Altar | Autumn Equinox is my new year
On this autumn equinox, my most precious moment of reflection, I commit to these learnings. I commit to digging deeper, to exploring further, to finding my way towards truly integrating this budding wisdom.
Many Moons | Tarotscopes for the September Full Moon
Many Moons' Sarah Gottesdiener offers a one-card pull for each sign, to honour the Harvest Moon. (Bonus: These tarotscopes also include songs!)
Queering the Tarot: Seven of Pentacles
"The Seven of Pentacles kickstarts a time of hard work and innovation, and also encourages us to take things one step at a time, allowing space for natural growth cycles."
Redefining femininity in the Many Queens Tarot
"The cards began to accumulate stories for me, about my friends and my relationships, how to be soft with myself when times are hard, how to hold myself accountable when I need to."
The Garden | Social Capital & platform ownership
Social Capital is an intangible economy of power and access that exists between community members. How can we be accountable to this as business owners who rely on social capital to make a living?
The tarot chose me: Andrea Furtick on the Afro Goddess Tarot Arcanas
"I built a portfolio full of melanated goddesses with creamy brown skin tones embracing their femininity and power. I love making art that makes my sisters feel good about themselves."
Queering the Tarot is seeking a new home!
If you run or know of an intersectional witchy community space that could provide a home to our longest-running queer tarot column, let us know!
LRT ending: Questions & answers
Following my recent announcement that LRT is winding down on 31st October, I've received some questions and comments - here are my answers!
MOONWORK: somatic practice for queers
"MOONWORK is a practice of making home in self, others, and the present moment, as perfect-for-now experiences that include past & future." Hannah Harris-Sutro introduces her new online class.