The Mind Scan Spread

It happens quite often… one day you wake up and just feel out of sorts. To your frustration, you cannot pin it on any factor in particular. Instead, you only know something’s wrong but can’t pin-point it. Enter tarot and this Mind-Scan General Energy Spread. The tarot is an excellent tool to help reveal how […]

The Hanged Man and Finding New Perspectives

When I’m stuck on a writing project, I go to the movies. I like nothing better than a mid-day matinee with the silver-hair crew of retirees, film students, and loner cinephiles like myself. Plus, going to the movies is cheaper than many entertainment options. As a member of my local indie art house theater, I […]

The Wheel of Fortune and Holding On

I have schizoaffective disorder bipolar type, which means I have full-blown symptoms of both schizophrenia and bipolar I disorder. But for my first thirteen years on psychiatric medication, I had the diagnosis of bipolar. For more than a decade, and while I was learning tarot, I understood my mental illness—and, indeed, my core identity—to be […]