The Healing Journey
Concept illustration of a man working on his mental health.
I love that Millennials and Gen Z adults loudly prioritize mental and emotional health. As a Gen Jones Boomer, I find it refreshing that what was once stigmatized and spoken of only in hushed tones is now part of matter-of-fact conversations.
I have always been drawn toward the concept of personal healing and self-improvement. As a kid growing up in the 1970s, I enjoyed the rise of pop psychology and embraced the idea that we can have some agency and control over our moods and behaviors.
Becoming an adult in the 1980s, I immediately made an internal connection between the pop psychology books and television shows of my early days and the tarot and magic I had begun studying. To me, the journey of spiritual awareness and the journey of healing were synonymous.
I often wonder why some people do not seem to be called to reflect on their own inner lives. I often notice that people who are not self-reflective can be very concerned when things go awry. They rarely understand that their unwillingness to look at what is unhealed might be part of the problem, both in terms of causation and difficulty in recovery.
Now that I am older, I am very aware that healing is a lifelong journey. Even in our senior years, we remain on that journey. Here is the trick, though. Because ongoing healing is a lifelong journey, and acute healing needs to happen quickly after the hurt happens, there can be times in life when healing and wellbeing do not have to be the primary focus.
As often as I hear people wonder why healing is necessary at all, I also hear people wonder if it is okay to take a break from the healing journey and focus on fun, career, creativity, or family for a while.
My answer to that is always the same. When we focus on what moves us forward, we are still on the healing journey. We have come far enough in healing from the past that we can now enjoy the present and plan for the future. Those moments when our focus shifts from the inner to the outer, or from the past to the present and future, are still part of our healing.
It is probably just as detrimental to spend all our time focused on what needs fixing as it is to refuse to think about fixing at all. And part of healing is understanding that once we begin the work, it continues even when we are not directly focused on it.
Sometimes spending time with loved ones or out in nature is more than recreation. Sometimes laughing at a silly television show is just the medicine we need. Personal growth and healing can happen in the light, as well as in the dark.
As we in the Northern Hemisphere welcome the official beginning of summer, let’s remember that deep personal healing and fun in the sun are definitely not mutually exclusive.
Pixie Arcana for StaarCon 6 by Pamela Steele.
The StaarCorner
As we prepare for StaarCon 6 and get ready to launch StaarCast, our new online platform, I am particularly excited for some of our more recent additions to our StaarCon traditions.
At StaarCon 2024, we held our first Bardic Circle, with Christine Leiser as our host and Master of Ceremonies. A bardic circle is exactly what it sounds like; a time for bards to share their stories and songs. Think of it as a talent show. After its success in 2024, we asked Christine to come back and do it again for StaarCon 5. Now, we think the Bardic Circle will be a StaarCon institution!
For StaarCon 6, Christine will return to host the Bardic Circle and assist with our Opening Ceremony. Christine is the perfect person to help us with these tasks, since she works as a performing musician, tarot reader, and magical creator!
If you are coming to StaarCon 6, join us Saturday evening for the Bardic Circle. If you have a public-domain song, story, dance, skit, poem, or other short performance to share, Christine will put you on the roster!
When we first began holding StaarCon in person, we invited vendors to set up in the presentation rooms so that our attendees could shop between sessions. We realized that many of our local community who could not attend the conference were anxious to come and shop with our amazing merchants too!
For StaarCon 5, we launched the StaarCon Marketplace, a full expo and psychic fair, free and open to the public all three days! This means that our attendees can enjoy an enhanced shopping experience, and that our local community members can join us anytime throughout the weekend to support our vendors, have readings, and shop for the perfect tarot deck, book, crystal, or piece of jewelry.
At StaarCon 6, we will have many great readers, artisans, and merchants at the Marketplace. If you would like to be a vendor, all you need to do is apply! And, if you are someone who likes readings enough to come to a psychic fair but maybe not enough to come to a whole conference, the Marketplace is free for you to attend and bring your friends!
If you are coming to enjoy the conference, you will also enjoy the expanded opportunities to shop and enjoy the StaarCon 6 Marketplace, the Bardic Circle, over 30 great presentations, and more!
StaarCon Presenter Christine Leiser at StaarCon 5.
Ciro Marchetti and StaarCon attendee in the Marketplace at StaarCon 5.
Tickets to attend StaarCon 6 in person in Palm Beach Gardens are now available, along with guest rooms at the DoubleTree at a favorable rate. Get your tickets and book your rooms now! We look forward to seeing you in October!
StaarCon 6 presenter Bex.
Virtual Presenter Spotlight: Bex
Confessions, Community, and What Tarot Readers Really Think
Today we’re turning the spotlight on Bex, one of the Live Track presenters for StaarCon 6 and StaarCon 6 Virtual. Bex, whose full name is Rebecca Jones, is a tarot reader, psychic, and evidential medium based in London, UK. Her path to making her practice public is not the most conventional one, which is perhaps exactly why it resonates with so many people. She was raised as a Mormon, earned an MBA, and had built a life that looked nothing like a tarot reader’s. Then her brother passed away unexpectedly, and everything shifted. She turned toward the spiritual gifts she had set aside, returned to the spirit communications that had visited her since childhood, and decided it was time to stop keeping her tarot work a secret.
Bex has been reading tarot for over twenty years, though she only began reading publicly in recent years. Her approach is warm, conversational, and firmly grounded. She describes tarot as a universal language and an interactive conversation, one that does not happen to us but with us and for us. On her website she is cheerfully clear that she cannot read minds, predict lottery numbers, or locate missing earrings, though she does suggest checking behind the sofa. This kind of candor is characteristic of how she moves through the tarot world: seriously engaged with the craft, and refreshingly honest about what it is and is not.
Confessions of a Tarot Reader
In 2024, Bex launched her podcast, Confessions of a Tarot Reader, described as a love letter to the tarot community and the tarot-curious. Her goal was to create a friendly, behind-the-scenes space where tarot readers could compare notes and where people new to tarot could understand what the experience is actually like. Topics she covers include how to prepare for a first reading, how often is too often to come back for another one, what readers are really thinking when a client returns with questions about an ex, toxic clients and toxic readers, and how to tap into your own intuition to read for yourself.
By the time she arrives at StaarCon 6, Bex will have spoken with more than seventy fellow tarot readers for the podcast. That body of conversation is the foundation of her presentation, and it gives her something genuinely useful to bring to the room: not theory, but the actual, lived experience of a community talking honestly about its own practice. The podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and most other major platforms. You can also find it at buzzsprout.com/2383306.
What is she bringing to StaarCon 6?
On Saturday, October 3rd at 3:15 pm on the Live Track, Bex is presenting Confessions of a Tarot Reader. The session is built on everything she has gathered through those seventy-plus conversations, and it promises to be one of the more candid and community-oriented presentations of the weekend.
She will share what she has learned about the quiet assumptions readers often make about how others practice, the ways those assumptions can create distance or misunderstanding within the community, and what happens when they are surfaced and examined. She will also explore the potential and the real pain points of social media and artificial intelligence for tarot readers, and where our tarot ecosystem might be headed next.
Beyond the community landscape, Bex plans to look at insights emerging from the intersection of tarot and clinical therapeutic practice, where readers are finding creative inspiration these days, and the perhaps surprising question of how often tarot readers actually get readings for themselves. It is the kind of session that invites the whole room into a conversation rather than simply delivering information, and that spirit of open dialogue is exactly what the podcast has always been about.
The presentation will also be streamed live on StaarCon 6 Virtual through StaarCast.com, so if you cannot be in Palm Beach Gardens in person, you can still be part of the conversation.
About Bex
Bex is a tarot reader, psychic, and evidential medium based in London, UK, with more than twenty years of experience with the cards. She is the host of the podcast Confessions of a Tarot Reader and offers readings for clients around the world through bextarot.com. You can follow her on Instagram at @bex_tarot.
StaarCon 6 presenter Bex.
StaarCon 6 presenter Bex.
Presentation: Confessions of a Tarot Reader
Date: October 3, 2026
Room opens: 3 PM EDT
Session begins: 3:15 PM EDT
Duration: 45 minutes
A woman contemplates a tarot card.
How Tarot Helps Us Heal
Tarot is useful for inspiration and information. I also believe that tarot is a tool for healing. Here are some of the ways that I believe tarot helps us heal.
When we learn the cards, we learn the lessons inherent in each card. Just like studying any sacred text, the wisdom we learn heals us.
When we ask the right questions of the cards, the answers we receive can help us heal.
When we do magic and meditation with the cards, the images and archetypes can help us heal.
For me, tarot will always be part of the healing journey, and a tarot reading will always have the possibility of offering healing.
TarotScopes for July 2026 Live for YouTube Members - Tuesday, June 23rd @ 7 pm.
The Week in Review
Have you noticed that I have been clipping the collective readings from our Monday and Friday broadcasts to share on social media?
This coming Sunday, Jun 21, will be the solstice. In the Northern Hemisphere, we celebrate the Summer Solstice. In the Southern Hemisphere, it is the beginning of winter.
On Tuesday, June 23 at 7 pm ET, members of my YouTube channel are invited to join me as I record the TarotScopes for July, and offer some bonus readings!
From Around the Web
If you are celebrating the Summer Solstice this weekend, here is a Summer Solstice Tarot Guide from The Tarot Guru.
One traditional name for the Summer Solstice is ‘Litha’. The Embroidered Forest has 6 Litha Tarot Spreads For Summer Fun.
Which tarot cards are most often associated with the summer season? Tarot.com has some thoughts!
Tarot cards with a focus on the Three of Swords.
Tarot Wisdom For the Week
Every one of the seventy-eight cards can speak to us of healing. However, there is one that I often think of first and foremost.
The image of the Three of Swords is obviously painful. We see three swords plunged into a heart. Clearly, this is a card of heartache, sorrow, and betrayal.
When I see the Three of Swords in a reading, I expect that we will need to discuss something that has caused acute pain and tender feelings. Yet, I do not simply see this as a card of pain. I also see the Three of Swords as a card that signals the need for immediate healing.
The Three of Swords does not tell us the nature of the injury, nor does it tell us how or what to heal. The Three of Swords does the very specific job of alerting us to pain and injury, and to the need for healing.
Unseen hands leafing through a calendar.
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Volume 9 Issue 24
June 17, 2026
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