This page is FULL of information; read this section first and stop here if you’re seeking a reading with me, but you prefer the abridged version of my introduction

I have been collaborating with tarot for 12 years. I have come to know this oracular system as a way-finding tool. The cards work well to trigger subconscious human knowing toward the surface of the mind.

With right knowing, we may take right action. This is the basis for potent magic.

Some folks that use the Tarot say it is a psychological mirror; others use the cards as a doorway into psychic awareness. Some use the cards for fortune telling, to divine what might be. Other folks use tarot secularly; no witchcraft, no energy work, no psychic dealings.

But tarot is certainly not a science. I am an art-witch, and reading Tarot is one of my mediums.

I use the cards to help me channel. The set of cards we know as "Tarot" in the modern world isn't ancient, but it's old. People have used these images and have ascribed meaning to them for a very long time. Human beings are meaning-makers; our legacies with conjuring myth, faerie tales, philosophy and magic is ancient, even if the cards are not. In my Tarot practice, I root into the power of story.

I love sitting with a client and parsing through the shadows and the meadows of their human lives, as we go deeper, with lantern and key. I watch their spirit light through their being as we let the cards speak their own story to them. New patterns emerge. Unexpected perspectives begin to peek through.

And a lot of folks find-

(as I have)

-that there is often unseen support in the material and spiritual realms toward seeing us thrive.

There are other people, and non-human beings that want to collaborate with us. There are paths not yet taken that hold a lot of promise. There is sweetness even in a troubled time. The underworld is not so drab and terrifying a place to be, when we learn that we are building foundations to take up all the space in our unique life, to live it fully.

Grief, rage, joy, laughter, storms and squalls, sunshine, rain, nourishment, wisdom and folly… Tarot mirrors all of this.

and Tarot can provide a map to navigate all this complexity.

When I read:

-I ask my guides to connect with your energy and any of your guides, or spiritual allies that you work with.

-I shuffle the deck on your behalf, while we ground, center, or otherwise get present.

-As I shuffle, I also set up a sacred container by drawing a soft circle acknowledging the cardinal directions.

-Then, I lay out the spread, and we dig in!

I read tarot as a collaboration between my ancestors, the land I live on, deities I work with, other spiritual allies, and the spiritual makeup of the person being read for.

I also acknowledge that I am working with the cosmic weather- the seasons that we are in by way of the wheel of the year, and also by way of collective energy at play.

I ground my intuition into Land. I hail from land that originally belongs to and has been stewarded by the Cherokee and Catawba peoples for thousands of years.

This land raised me, taught me, and has been my teacher for longer than I have been aware.

I am descended from ancestors that were colonizers and I recognize my niche viewpoint is a small one amongst vast realities and truths that I may never fully grasp.

So when I read I am rooting down my own energy, and calling in that which protects my energy, and contextualizes my existence in time, place, space. All this, yes, in a reading. And I haven’t pulled a card yet!

Beyond the actual time I spend working with tarot clients, there's all the work I'm doing behind the scenes to make myself available for this- the psychic hygiene, the self-inquiry, meditation, spellwork and propitiation of spirits.

We'll have fun! I often laugh with my clients because life itself is a humorous cosmic joke quite a lot of the time.

But I am tender with, and responsible with the space I hold. This is sacred exchange and that part is what I don’t take it lightly.

• When you read with me, expect compassionate honesty. I will never bullshit you. I will never paint a pretty picture over a festering wound. If something needs tending to, we will do so with intention and care

• 100% confidentiality I believe it does bear stating that I would never discuss your reading with another human in the living material realm. What is covered in the sacred container of our reading is between me, my guides, you, and yours.

• I practice impeccable psychic hygiene. I cleanse my decks, I cleanse my body, I cleanse my energy- body. I ground myself, I center my own energy in myself, and I shield as needed. I can share my protocols with these techniques if desired. Just as I don’t disclose anything about your reading with others, I also will not carry energy that doesn’t belong to me, and I do not allow others to carry my energy with them. When your reading is over for you, it is over for me, with respect and toward our mutual thriving!

• Adults Only.
  I read for folks 18 and older.

• I encourage you to show up as you are. Please be yourself. Tell me your pronouns. Emote how you do. If you cry during a reading, it’s really normal and okay. (I nearly always tear up when I get a reading from someone else.) If you feel anxious, if you need to move your body in a specific way, if you need to take a break or stop for any reason, I respect that. We all process differently. I especially want my readings to feel accessible to folks that experience social marginalization; come as you are. Trust that I will be myself. I’ll probably sing some of the things I say. As I channel, I can get weird because sometimes my body gets tingly. As long as we are respectful, we can be fully honest in ourselves.

• My reading style emphasizes personal sovereignty. Aligning action with values, and radical self-honesty are minimum requirements. This sounds intense, but I promise I deliver this in a forthright yet gentle package. For example, if you come to me for a love reading, great! I love facilitating those, and so does my primary tarot deck. But your reading will focus on you, your desires, what your part of a relationship entails, and your own autonomy. It will be less about what another person could be thinking or feeling, though, inevitably those things come up. I trust my deck and my guides, so I will share what comes through. And, as stated, the focus will be on “your side of the street” so to speak.

• I am not a therapist, a doctor, or a legal professional. I am a spiritual worker. I am a human who has experienced ecstatic joy and psychedelic grief. I have been a care-worker, and a teacher, and a facilitator at different turns in my life.
  I am good at holding space, facilitating reflection with others, and being with folks. I am a good listener, so I am a good tarot reader. I will always refer clients to specific specialists when what they are seeking is out of my scope of ability. I recognize my limits! And I do so happily.

When you read with me, I’ll give you the option to choose from two decks. But I can also choose for you, if that’s preferred. As a compliment to your tarot cards I will always have you pull from a second oracle deck, which I will introduce later.

Because the tools inform the medium, here is a bit about the Tarot decks I use for readings:

The Slutist Tarot by Morgan Claire Sirene

This deck is what I currently use as my primary deck. She is femme-centered, sex - positive, queer, and features several types of human bodies and relationships. This deck leans into the reclaiming of certain words by some queer feminist communities that may offend folks who don't swim in these waters. It is not a deck for everyone, but she is a liberating deck for those of us that do appreciate and need her medicine. She reads like a best friend who will compassionately call you out when you need support setting boundaries, practicing self-care, taking up space, or ditching that toxic relationship. She’ll give you permission for pleasure, every time. Eat that slice of chocolate cake, buy yourself some flowers, and soak in a saltwater bath, call your lover for a quick meet. This deck especially enjoys readings about personal power, relationships, desire and ambition.

The imagery is illustrated, erotic, and brightly- colored. I have used this deck mostly for myself since I invested in its kickstarter in 2017. Since then I’ve only grown as a reader and this deck has enjoyed reading for others too. The caveat is that this deck is erotically explicit. I don’t read for folks under 18 anyway, but I will always point out this feature of the deck and ask for express consent to dive into her magic together.

The Textured Tarot by Lisa McLoughlin

I adopted this deck because I am a watercolor painter and a mixed media fiber artist. This deck's collage-heavy illustrations speak a language I understand. It has an affinity for creative work, generosity of spirit, and emphasizing the exquisite beauty of everyday life, through a lens of radiant compassion. The energy of the Textured Tarot feels like spending time rambling in the woods, with no agenda, or lying on a warm-sand wild beach, watching ghost crabs side-wind about, and listening to the sound of crash-foam-bird-wind. It is a gentle deck, with much complexity.

The Illustrated Herbiary by Maia Toll

This deck is my companion to every tarot reading I offer. This is a plant-spirit-medicine deck. At the end of our discourse surrounding your tarot cards, I offer this as a balm. They highlight sacred shapes in nature, and offer myriad symbolic aspects of plants-as-people.

Pulling one card from this deck will offer the wisdom of a plant ally that would like to work with you on whatever came up in your reading. I’ll share a bit about the plant’s physical medicine, its myth and lore and story, and why it may be looking to collaborate with you now. I’ll also offer simple ways for you to do so, which may or may not include encountering that plant medicine in person, or taking it into your body.

The Mountain Dream Tarot by Bea Nettles

This is a photographic art deck made by Bea Nettles in 1975. The photographs were all shot in Italy, but Bea Nettles is an alumni of Penland School of Craft, a staple creative hub in Western North Carolina. The deck is truly made of mountain dreamscapes. It was made by a white woman artist in the 1970s, so its primary limit is that is does not express the rich diversity of human being-ness that our modern world is working to recognize. It is very traditional in that it deeply pulls on the imagery as illustrated by Pamela Coleman Smith in the classic Smith/Rider/Waite deck.

Folks that choose to have me read from this deck however, will be warmed by the intimacy of the photographs. Reading from this deck feels like stepping out the back door to help my grandmother hang the laundry to dry. It reads like splashing in the spring branch with my cousins when we were kids in the Summer, running fingers through the beached shells of fresh water mussels, and avoiding the Cottonmouth Snake when she passed through. Country living through the Major Arcana. That’s the Mountain Dream Tarot.