Tarot and Soul

The Sun The most common question I receive — not just in tarot, but as a general pattern across twenty years of consultations — isn't about love, or career, or money. It's simpler than any of those. And harder. "Just tell me yes or no." I understand why people ask this. When you're in the middle of something uncertain — waiting for an answer, facing a decision, caught between two directions — the desire for a clear, binary response is completely human. You don't want nuance. You want to know. And tarot, honestly, is not always the easiest tool for that. But after twenty years of practice, I've developed a way of working with yes or no questions that I trust — one that takes the question seriously without pretending the cards are a coin flip. Today I want to share that method, along with the cards I find most reliable for binary readings and the questions I've learned to ask before I ever draw a single card. Why Yes or No Is the Hardest Question in Taro...

 The Devil Of all the questions that come to me in tarot practice, the ones that arrive after a breakup carry a particular weight. Not the weight of uncertainty — though that's there too. The weight of something already known, sitting alongside something that can't yet be accepted. "It's been three months. Will he come back?" When someone asks me this question, I hear several things at once. The number of months tells me they've been counting. The question itself tells me the answer they're hoping for. And the fact that they're still asking — three months later — tells me the feeling hasn't moved the way they hoped it would. In Part 3 of this series, we looked at conflict inside a relationship. Today, in Part 4, we're in the territory that follows — the aftermath of separation, and the question of what comes next. Same structure. The hardest territory yet. What Breakup Readings Are Really About Before I lay down a single card for a breakup read...

Three of Wands Unrequited love is uncertain. Relationship conflict is something else entirely. When someone comes to me with a confession question — "should I say something?" — there is still openness in the situation. The story hasn't fully begun yet. But when someone comes to me and says "we keep fighting about the same things" — the story is already deep into its middle chapters. And what I'm listening for is completely different. I'm not listening for what might happen. I'm listening for the pattern that's already been established — and what it's going to take to change it. In Part 2 of this series, we looked at confession readings. Today, in Part 3, I want to walk through two complete readings for a different and more complex situation: an established relationship where conflict has become a recurring pattern. Same structure — a 3-card spread and a 4-card spread. Different territory entirely. What Conflict Readings Are Really About Befor...

Five of Cups Of all the questions I've received in twenty years of tarot practice, this one arrives more consistently than almost any other. Not always in the same words. But always with the same feeling underneath. "I have feelings for someone. Should I say something? Or should I stay quiet?" What I've learned is that the question itself tells me something before the cards do. When someone asks "should I confess my feelings?" — the decision is usually already made. The heart knows. What's being asked, beneath the surface, is something different: "Is it safe? Am I going to get hurt?" That's the real question. And that's what I read the cards to answer. Today I want to walk you through two complete readings for this exact situation — a 3-card spread and a 4-card spread — using real cards, real positions, and the interpretive approach I've developed over two decades of professional consultations. If you missed Part 1 on how to read po...