Tarot for when the world feels off😵‍💫

The Magician

• Is this a PSYOP? Where is my attention being directed?
• What agency do I have in this situation?
• What tools do I have at my disposal?

The world is… loud right now.

Not just headlines.
Not just notifications.

Something deeper.

A kind of static in the air.

You can feel it even if you don’t watch the news.
I don’t watch the news.
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It hums under everything.

This morning, I woke up and saw water pooled on my altar
In big luscious, liquid drops..

For a second—WTF?

Then I realized…

The air is so thick with humidity, the salt had pulled water out of it.
Condensed. Collected. Made visible.

That’s what this moment feels like.

Everything invisible… becoming visible.

WTF???

Everything unspoken… starting to gather weight.

I’m thinking about Ian McGilchrist and his words about the left-brained sickness that permeates every seeming nuance of existence anymore.

The servant, the left-brained, rational mind has not only taken over and is driving the bus-
But it’s hallucinations now powered by AI.

What we need now is more mythos: image, symbol, and story.

It’s time to stop asking:
“What’s the solution?”

But instead ask:
“What is this trying to show me?”

Hmmm…I’ve got a pocket sized set of symbols right here in front of me called the Tarot deck!

If you asked me the why behind this newsletter, this is it.

I want to get the tool of Tarot into as many hands as possible so we have some hope of navigating the unknown territory ahead.

And here’s another piece of this…

If Tarot is a language of symbols—
then it has to stay alive.

Because symbols that don’t evolve…
start to lose their punch.

And we don’t need soft serve symbols right now.

We need symbols that hit.

That land in the body.
That feel immediately recognizable.

So instead of asking:

“What does this card traditionally mean?”

Ask instead:

“What does this feel like… today?”

The answers are often much simpler—
and much more honest and applicable to the situation!

Modern Tarot

Here are some of my “modern takes” on Tarot symbolism. My take is absolutely not the only take. I invite you to play with the symbols and come up with your own.

There are many truths in right-brained land. (Yes, that’s hard to swallow, but go with it for a moment.)

Judgement

• the “coming out card”
• awakening to parts of yourself you have kept closeted
• hearing the call of your soul and responding

The Devil

• I can’t because - your limiting beliefs
• false promises of society (work hard and get the retirement package)
• could you be lying to yourself?

The Tower

• “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold” - W.B. Yeats
• No one is coming to save you
• I hope you have a plan B

Temperance

• Ignore the pendulum​
• The poison is the medicine - depending on the dose
• Extreme healing modalities: ayahuasca, huachuma, ketamine

The Bottom Line

You don’t need more information.

You need a different way of seeing.

Not answers.

Orientation.

So pick up a card.

Say it in your own words.

And trust what hits.

Tarot isn’t something you learn by reading about it.

You learn it by doing it.

So if you want to get out of your head
and into the conversation—

Join us at the next Tarot Cocktail Party

(join the Underground for access)​

Bring a question.
Pull some cards.
And let’s see what they’re actually showing you.

-Cassandra the Card Reader
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