Emily Clare Tarot

Emily Clare Tarot

  • The Difficult Conversations Spread

    The Difficult Conversations Spread

    Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen, is a book I’d recommend to anyone. My copy has a thing on the front that says “New York Times Business Bestseller” and it’s categorized in “Psychology/Business” on the back, but I’m glad I didn’t let the association with…

  • The Wooden Tarot: Court of Blooms

    The Wooden Tarot: Court of Blooms

    This is part of an ongoing series in which I write about my interpretations of the cards in A.L. Swartz’s Wooden Tarot. You can find the other posts here. I have some general notes on the court cards of the Wooden Tarot in general at the top of my entry for the Court of Bones.…

  • The Mirror

    The Mirror

    I tend not to watch or read the news on a regular basis, preferring not to learn about the sufferings of the world through the heavy filters of  daily mainstream media. But I do think that it is important to know about suffering, even if everything in our own existence is comfortable for the moment.…

  • The Wooden Tarot: Suit of Blooms 6-10

    The Wooden Tarot: Suit of Blooms 6-10

    This is part of an ongoing series in which I write about my interpretations of the cards in A.L. Swartz’s Wooden Tarot. You can find the other posts here. Well, this post clocks in at over 1,700 words!!! I didn’t mean to do so much writing, but these cards were more difficult to interpret than…

  • It’s Queer Tarot Time!!!

    What is queer tarot? Uh…tarot by queer people. LGBTQ decks fall under this category, but the three queer decks that I’m thinking about are also simply queer as compared to mainstream tarot decks. Mainstream tarot usually features thin, beautiful white people who have heteronormative interactions with each other and traditional gender presentation. Needless to say,…

  • The Wooden Tarot: Suit of Blooms 2-5

    The Wooden Tarot: Suit of Blooms 2-5

    This is part of an ongoing series in which I write about my interpretations of the cards in A.L. Swartz’s Wooden Tarot. You can find the other posts here. Yes, I’m going through these quite quickly because I want to keep up the momentum (and also finish them while I have time off of work…

  • The Wooden Tarot: Introduction to the Suit of Blooms

    The Wooden Tarot: Introduction to the Suit of Blooms

    This is part of an ongoing series in which I write about my interpretations of the cards in A.L. Swartz’s Wooden Tarot. You can find the other posts here. The suit of Blooms in the Wooden Tarot corresponds to the suit of Cups/Chalices/Vessels, etc. in other decks. This means that Blooms are ruled by the…

  • The Wooden Tarot: Court of Bones

    The Wooden Tarot: Court of Bones

    This is part of an ongoing series in which I write about my interpretations of the cards in A.L. Swartz’s Wooden Tarot. You can find the other posts here. Finally, we come to the court cards in the suit  of Bones. These cards feature some old themes that we’ve already seen in the numbered cards,…

  • The Wooden Tarot: Suit of Bones 6-10

    The Wooden Tarot: Suit of Bones 6-10

    This is part of an ongoing series in which I write about my interpretations of the cards in A.L. Swartz’s Wooden Tarot. You can find the other posts here. Six of Bones The bones of a hand with six fingers. Again, since I don’t know that much about skeletal anatomy, I googled whether or not…

  • The Wooden Tarot: Suit of Bones 2-5

    The Wooden Tarot: Suit of Bones 2-5

    This is part of an ongoing series in which I write about my interpretations of the cards in A.L. Swartz’s Wooden Tarot. You can find the other posts here. I think this set of cards may be the most sparsely illustrated in the entire deck, which is both freeing and intimidating. The Wooden Tarot, while…

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