Tarot Topics Blog
Writing is a passion of mine. Each week, I publish a newsletter on my favorite subject, tarot!
This consolidated blog contains my newsletters and other musings I have blogged here over the years.
Find all my posts, newsletters, reviews, and commentaries here.

Understanding your Zodiac Sign through Tarot
Most of us are familiar with our Sun Sign within Astrology and know what sign to look at when reading about our relationship style according to our Zodiac Sign or looking at the horoscope section of the newspaper.
This only scratches the surface of what Astrology can tell us about who we are and the energy that is most influential in our lives.

Reading Tarot for Yourself: Are There Times to Put the Cards Away?
Are there times a tarot reader should put away their cards? Here are some frank thoughts about helpful self-reading practices.

Who Am I Today?
A simple tarot exercise to help you understand yourself, and tarot.

Advice for Tarot Readers: Embrace the Blank Space
Recently a student and I were discussing ways to begin a tarot reading. I’m not talking about invocation or creating sacred space. I’m talking about the very first thing you say to your querent after you begin the divination.

What makes the difference between a card reading and a card interpretation?
Here's a technique that can be incorporated into any introspective cartomancy reading style, whether tarot or other oracle cards.
One problem I see with card interpretations both amateur and pro, for self and for others, is that often, all that is delivered is vaguely general warm and fuzzy advice based on keywords.

Want to Ask Tarot if You Should Do Something? Try This Technique Instead!
Need to make a decision? Try this technique to get a quick, clear tarot reading!

Plan Your Trip with Tarot
Charmaine Frapp shares a fun way to use tarot to plan your next trip!

Straight-Up Talk About Tarot Reversals
There's a lot of misinformation out there about tarot reversals, how they work, and why we use them. Here's what's true for me.

Pro Tarot Tips: Skeptics and Believers at the Tarot Table
Why it's challenging to read for skeptics, and how to turn them into your best clients.

Advice for Tarot Readers: When the Final Outcome is Clearly Not the End
Here are three ways to give a great tarot reading when a less-than-great card appears as a final outcome.

A Tarot Reading for 2017: My Predictions
Here's a tarot reading for 2017, and some thoughts about predictions, physics, and objectivitiy.

A new take on the New Year's Resolution

Answers to your Questions about Tarot: The Emperor and the Hierophant

22 gifts

How to Discover your Inner Tarot Reader: An Eight-Point Guide

Be an Ambassador for Tarot

Stop Fixing the Hierophant!

Aces, Tens and the Court: Tarot Exercises to Find your Path

Answers to Your Questions about Tarot: Advanced Tarot Reading
