Author Archives: fionabeth13

We began this journey in January 2019. I was eight months into living with my folks and helping care for my mum, still caring for children and trying to manage some work on the side. Rather than the freedom I had hoped for once my children reached adulthood, I found the walls closing in againContinue reading “Tea Break Tarot School: Tarot Playbook”

When I began working with tarot I learned to read intuitively. I studied the Rider-Waite deck, as so many modern interpretations use this system, but I also learned to use my intuitive abilities and inner-knowing to read. I would take the card and notice the images, seeking connections in memory and imagination to draw outContinue reading “Empathetic Tarot”

This post is inspired by the folks over in the Tea Break Tarot Facebook group. Discussion yesterday explored the idea of tarot card meanings. This was one of my biggest blocks with tarot when I began working with the cards…how on earth would I learn what they all meant, how would I recall that informationContinue reading “Well meaning”

A friend recently shared some information about household divination. This brought me back to how I got started in Tea Break Tarot School; the desire to make magical practice and divination inclusive and accessible. I have often wondered what I would do without Amazon or Etsy or Facebook and Instagram to show me smart newContinue reading “Needles and pins”

When I first started using tarot I was looking for answers. A personal health crisis and news of a life-limiting illness within the family, coupled with mid-life transitions had me brim full of questions and eager for guidance as I navigated these previously uncharted waters. I spent a long while buying decks. I think onContinue reading “Desert Island Decks”

At Samhain I went to Curiosity Coffee in Canterbury to host some ten-minute intuitive tarot tutorials. It reminded me how much magic exists in live teaching interactions, how sharing learning opens up new insights and possibilities. With this in mind I’ll be opening the doors to the first live cohort of Tea Break Tarot SchoolContinue reading “Tea Break Tarot School live”

We are beginning to think about our Yule preparations here. My children are grown up now, however the excitement of the festive season lingers. One of my favourite traditions is the advent calendar. While advent calendars and candles are closely linked with Christian traditions, I was pondering how I could find a way to “countContinue reading “Counting down to Yule”

In the last post we looked at telling the story in one card, exploring colours, images, the characters and possibilities seen there. In this lesson we’ll look at working with two or more cards. Begin by choosing two cards at random and set them side by side. Now imagine that these are two images inContinue reading “Storytime continued”

When I was a primary school teacher story time was my favourite part of the day. We’d get the class tidy and the children would come and sit on the carpet and choose a story (or three) for me to read to them. It was a gathered moment at the end of the day, aContinue reading “Story Time”

We have cleared the walls of our imaginary class. You have your books packed up and have swapped numbers and IG accounts with others from the class. I am brewing us a final cup of tea. Today we close this part of our work together. During the past eighteen months (at the time of writing)Continue reading “School’s out for summer”