The Tarot Underground

Hi there Tarot Friends, Leo Fest is still perking along, with new goodies being added every week. This week's gift is a free-form spread creator. Sunday was the Leo New Moon, with Mercury stationing retrograde the same day. That got me to thinking about how thoughts create reality (the Law of Attraction) and ways to use Tarot to help with the process. How to ferret out stinking thinking, and clear out head trash so your manifestation efforts work clear some head trash with the Daily...

I think we got bogged down a bit with the Mercury Retrograde in Cancer last month. This month is full speed ahead - almost all Air and Fire. Think blow torches and jet engines! This month is an eclipse month, with eclipses at 20° Leo and 4° Pisces. This month’s Tarot spread is designed to give insight on the twists, turns, and wildfires of August. Let me know what you throw and what you’re “predicting”. We’ll do the best we can with this wild card month. P.S. My Sun is 25° Leo and my...

I bought a brand new washer and dryer when I moved into my house 6 months ago. The dryer has never worked right. Weirdly, when I picked out and paid for the washer and dryer from Home Depot, the order was written up for a different brand altogether🤷♀️. When I noticed it, I decided to let it go. It was the same price. Not worth the hassle of changing it. So when the dryer wasn’t drying, I wondered if I had messed up. Edward Scissorhands as Page of Cups - unknown The house had many other...

I’ve been cutting my lawn by hand with a very small weed whip. That’s okay until you get 5 inches of rain. So instead of cutting the lawn (again), I whipped up these Tarot activities! Activities go from easiest to hardest (in my opinion) Tarot Word Search answer key at the end of this article Court Card Matching Match the court card with the appropriate slogan. My version of the answers are at the bottom of this article. NOTE: we won’t all have the same answers! I’ve included court card...

2 Live Tarot Learning Events coming up. Scroll to the bottom for more info👇 It seems like this moment is particularly important to feel into with a Cancer new moon, and Mercury retrograde in Cancer. My daily draw seemed to reflect some of this new moon watery darkness. Hanged Man 6 of cups and the moon 🌕 I knew the moon would come up since the new moon is tomorrow. A day of soft focus and reflection. Don’t push. Remember. Mercury retrograde swimming in my brother’s community poolwatching...

Most people think a Tarot spread organizes the cards. I think it organizes your attention. It’s less like a layout... and more like an AI prompt. The spread tells the reading what kind of answer you’re looking for. What kind of information would actually help me? Many folks ask a question, slap down a few cards and hope for the best. That’s like when someone plops down in the chair in front of me at a party or event and says, “Tell me stuff.” Yes, occasionally people do that. Do you go to...

I’m currently making an oracle deck. Not because I need another deck, or I have some big artistic vision. I’m making one because I’m going through something. It’s been over a year now since I’ve been going through a Dark Night of the Soul or a Dark Night of the Ego. Maybe it’s my Chiron return rolling right into my Saturn return. Honestly, I don’t know.🤷♀️ What I do know is that when you’re trying to change your life, your habits, your beliefs, or even your sense of who you are, you need...

Throughout the years of learning Tarot and later astrology, I’ve often thought: I just need one more technique. One more deck. One more spread. One more approach. One more system. Then my readings will really take off. We assume that adding complexity creates better readings. The funny thing is, if you think back to the best readings you’ve ever received, they probably weren’t complicated at all. You didn’t walk away with ten action items. You remembered ONE thing. One insight. One sentence....

I guess it’s Uranus in Gemini, which is my 6th house of daily work and routines (and where my Moon lives)… But all the usual routines are NOT working for me —Newsletter included. So enjoy this week’s newsletter in the form of a zine. You’re welcome.😉 Me and the Knight of Swords on a Quest for air conditioning If you’d like to print up this mini-zine, here is the file. 👇 quest-for-air-conditioning-2026-06-09.pdf Note, if you print in black and white the images are too dark. So I advise...

Super rare, but I’ve been sitting all day trying to write this newsletter and I have drawn a COMPLETE BLANK! So I am republishing a newsletter I wrote back in April. Maybe you missed it.Maybe you forgot it.Either way, here it is.👇 I asked the Symbolon deck: What belief is blocking me around money that needs to be transformed? And I pulled a blank card. I didn’t even realize the deck had a blank card. But I’ve been reading long enough to know that when it comes to card reading, everything...

Most people think a Tarot reading starts with a question —which it does. Next, you lay down cards. DON’T SKIP THIS STEP Then comes the interpretation. Number 3 is the step a lot of people don’t bother to do. And when you skip this step, what you have is a bunch of cards talking all at once. And you, as the reader, get confused or overwhelmed. Found it on Pinterest - you don’t want the cards competing for your attention The question matters Think about it this way: When you go to the doctor...