Tea-break Tarot School

This week I’ve begun a video series on my channel (which you can find here) based on my Tea Break Tarot School blog and book. In these first lessons we look at what you need to get started, the structure of the deck, the Major and Minor Arcana, and some ideas about what tarot is…

Tea Break Tarot School has been alive for three years now. I started this free class to share with anyone who wanted to learn to read tarot for themselves intuitively. In 2021 I rewrote all the original posts to create the Tea Break Tarot School Tarot Playbook (which you can find here). Now it’s time…

Carmen shared a post in the group the other day about tarot spreads which got me thinking about the Celtic Cross. This spread seems to be European in origin and is first mentioned in Arthur Edward Waite’s book A Pictorial History of the Tarot (you can read more about it here). This is perhaps the…

The wheel of the year turns on! Here in England the nights are drawing in, people are decorating their homes and businesses, shoppers hurry home with arms full of seasonal gifts and the Christmas fair stalls (a whole village of wooden huts!) are set up in the town centre selling trinkets, mulled wine and crafts.…

Divination dice are fun. For me they conjure memories of board games or the action of casting knuckle bones. You can use dice for yes/no answers, for instance taking a six-sided dice and allocating yes to even numbers or no to odd numbers. You can also use one or more dice to create your own…

When did you start working with divination? This has been a question which I have usually answered by talking about my experiences in church. As a teen in a charismatic church it was common practice to “lay a fleece” before the Lord or to practice bibliomancy by opening open my Bible at random and place…

The past few months I’ve been pulling cards less often. I found that when I pulled cards or did a spread what came out was the same. I felt stuck, a bit confused, divination has been a reliable friend and ally in navigating life’s often stormy waters and getting me through tricky and unpredictable times.…

Back in 2001 I began a “retreat in daily life”. I had been wanting to work through the spiritual exercises of St.Ignatius for a while but as a young parent with a five and three year old the option to depart on a month long solo retreat wasn’t an option. I found a local spiritual…

Around four years ago I created a crystal oracle. A teacher I was working with suggested it as one way of working with divination. I chose thirteen crystals from my collection of tumbled stones, gave them meanings based on their correspondences and uses in healing, and would pick them to see what my focus for…

I love divination. Divination is more than just tarot or oracle cards. It covers many different modalities and tools. When we engage with these tools for the purpose of seeking wisdom or to connect to the divine we are practising divination. Divination is something most of us have done at some point in our lives,…