Have you ever done a reading that made no sense and then asked someone else to interpret it for you? It’s possible (with your cooperation), but it’s not as straightforward as you might expect.

Tarot tips, Musings, Tarot readingsThomas the HermitAugust 25, 2023tarot reading, tarot tips, divination, intuition, card meanings, tarot card meanings, reading tarot, asking questions, clarifiers, critical thinking, interpretationsComment

Read Tarot Better with the How and Why Accordion

Do you use all 5 Ws and 1 H when asking questions of the tarot? With How questions, you get practical. With Why questions, you see the reasoning. It’s good to practice bouncing between them.

Tarot tips, Musings, Tarot readingsThomas the HermitJanuary 26, 2023tarot tips, tarot questions, asking questions, asking how and why in tarot, how to read tarot better, how to ask better questions, how questions, why questions, practical readingComment

How to Read a 5-Card Cross in 5 Minutes

The 5-card cross is one of those classic tarot card layouts that is super adaptable. But even outside of a strict layout, you can read it seamlessly and quickly by sticking to five simple steps.

Tarot tips, Tarot readings, Tarot spreads / Oracle spreadsThomas the HermitJanuary 11, 2023five-card cross, tarot tips, learn tarot, tarot spreads, tarot readings, tarot lessons, tarot teacher, teaching tarotComment

How Predictive Readings Can Revitalize Your Life, Even with Death in the Deck

Pulling the Death card when you’re doing a predictive reading can stop you dead in your tracks, but it doesn’t have to. And you shouldn’t sidestep the whole “death” thing with false optimism. The pain is part of it.

Musings, Tarot readingsThomas the HermitJune 16, 2022predictive reading, death, the death card, tarot readings, sample reading, dreams, coaching, divination, making the most of things, bucket listComment

Deck Interview + Tarot Spread: Spread Machine Cards + Oracle

The Spread Machine Cards + Oracle deck is an oracle and a spread crafting tool, and through this “interview” I create a spread (or two and a half) through some fun remixing!

Deck interviews, Tarot readings, Tarot spreads / Oracle spreadsThomas the HermitApril 21, 2021custom spreads, tarot spreads, spread pattern, golden dawn spread, oracle interview, oracle decks, deck interview, oracle, Fables Den, Kimberly M. Tsan, Kim Tsan, shadow work, shadow workerComment

Creating a Year-Ahead Reading

What goes into a year-ahead reading? See what I created for my recent year-ahead Portals of Being reading and how I came up with it. It’s a whopper.

New Year, New Service: Personal Coaching Through Tarot (Pilot Program)

Happy New Year! It’s 2020 and the year of the Emperor and his numerological counterpart, Death, so there’s no putting it off any longer: I’m piloting a new service: personal coaching through tarot.

Tarot Spread: The Cave, or Hermiting Away

If you keep getting a sign that you need to dig deeper inside yourself, a little bit of time in the Hermit’s Cave may help you put what you know and what you think you know into proper perspective.

Tarot Spread: Hermit's Guidance

This spread is for the person who has recognized that they have gotten lost somewhere and they want to find their way out, but they’re stumbling in the dark, and they’re just exhausting themselves, so they need someone to help them find the way forward.

MUSINGS ON TAROT, Divination, spirituality, and more