“That Bloody book”
I took a break from blogs with the idea that I would “collate my notes” to write and publish a book on Tarot. It started well, early...
The only type of reading I will never touch.
I recently taught a zoom session on Tarot Taboo topics, those topics so many people say “shouldn’t” be read for. Health, money, legal,...
On working with Vidar
As a seidrkona (using chant/a lokk to connect with the Norse deities) I have tended to stick with those deities I work well with (mostly...
Odin and the magical suit of swords
My working day is spent in one of two ways- shuffling and reading Tarot cards, or working with the Norse pantheon as a Seidrkona (roughly...
Using tarot for effective planning.
One of the first things I often tell clients is “the future is not fixed, but our minds often are. Think of tarot as a living map-...
Tarot and the black poles...
The one thing I always tell my students when learning to read tarot is “look at the cards”. Before you speak, write, pick up a book or...
The unfathomable nature of water
Over the month of May I connected with water through a series of group shamanic journeys, and this blog shares some of the experiences...
Tarot questions I don’t answer…
Really there has only been one- though I will explain the ways I side-stepped many others- but I did once receive an email question...
What is a rune- and how to understand them.
As I step forward more into teaching the rune-lore that underpins my beloved seidr work I find I am being asked questions that I...
To read reversals, or not?
When I first started reading Tarot I did read reversals- it helped me to highlight if the energy of a card was “stuck” or to decide which...
Drums, chanting and Zoom
Seidr by Zoom is quite simply not something I ever thought would happen, I had set up and advertised some shamanic workshops by Zoom-...
Stage or Separation cards
In the Rider-Waite tarot deck certain cards appear to be set on a stage. I am continuously in awe of Pamala Coleman-Smith. I look at...
Seidr- the deep connection I find through chanting in the old barns
One of my main passions in life is experiencing “Lokk-Seidr” A chant (lokk) which creates an altered state of perception (seidr). I use...
