How to Find Your Perfect Tarot Deck

Posted on April 12, 2021April 12, 2021 by Inkwood — Leave a comment

How to Find Your Perfect Tarot Deck

Ah, the search for the perfect deck. It begins, whether we know it or not, with our very first deck. You may have been given your first deck as a gift, or gotten it before you learned what you do and don’t like in tarot imagery. Sometimes we luck out, but usually it takes some experience with tarot before we really know what we want and need in our perfect deck – our soul deck.

Thankfully, it’s much easier now to find just about any deck anywhere in the world than it was 20 + years ago when I started learning and reading tarot. Although in some ways that can be of even less help – how do you decide which deck to work with when there are literally thousands of different decks out there?

Posted on April 9, 2021April 8, 2021 by Inkwood — Leave a comment

Individual Tarot Coaching Now Available!

Beloved Community, I am pleased to announce that I am now offering individual tarot coaching sessions at Inkwood Tarot! Interested in deepening your own tarot practice? No matter where you are in your tarot journey – just starting out or a decade in – sitting down with a professional to set goals, lean new skills and consider another perspective on tarot can be tremendously helpful.

I have been studying and reading tarot for over 20 years, and would be honored to help you strengthen your use of tarot for personal transformation, deepening your connection to spirit, or taking control of your life for intentional living.

I am offering an introductory rate of $50 for an hour coaching session for the spring – regular cost is $70. You and I will chat by text or email prior to your session so I can get some baseline info on your tarot experience, and then I’ll customize a session designed to help you deepen your practice and set personal goals for growth with tarot.

Coaching can be a single session, or a series of sessions, depending on your needs. After the initial 1 hour session, return coaching clients can select either half-hour or full hour sessions.

Want to learn more? Click here for more info!

Posted on March 24, 2021March 24, 2021 by Inkwood — Leave a comment

Online Tarot Workshop Sat. March 27th at 8 PM (EDT)

Beloved Community, I am offering a 90 minute tarot reading workshop online via Zoom, this Saturday evening at 8 PM, Eastern Daylight Time. This workshop is for anyone who would like some guidance on reading tarot – whether you’re a complete beginner (if you don’t have a deck, let me know at registration and I’ll give you directions on how to get a free, electronic deck for your phone or tablet) or well into your tarot journey.

We will explore traditional and esoteric meanings and associations, as well as diving into our intuition and learning to listen to our inner selves as we read and study the cards. Guided exercises, a meditation and time for practice reading will give participants a multi-faceted approach to interacting with their cards.

An electronic hand-out to help you continue your tarot journey will be given out at the end of the workshop. Cost of the workshop is $25, and you can register (or ask questions) by emailing me at: cynthia@inkwoodtarot.com. I can accept payment through Venmo, Paypal or CashApp.
Blessed Be!

Posted on March 20, 2021March 24, 2021 by Inkwood — Leave a comment

How Does the Tarot Actually Work?

Even after 20+ years, I still wonder this sometimes. Although I have a ‘technical’ answer, I’m still amazed at how spot-on the cards are. What’s the deal with that?

There’s actually a number of things going on that make tarot such an effective tool for divination and introspection.

Posted on September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 by Inkwood — Leave a comment

Understanding Tarot Basics

Cards from the Brady Tarot – Image by Inkwood Tarot

For a long time I wondered why esoteric symbols and abstract images eluded me. I admittedly have a very logic-focused brain. I’m better with science-y stuff than abstract – I have a master’s degree in conservation biology, and have spent decades studying the natural world. I don’t know if my science schooling and professional work is a result of my brain being wired for structured thinking, or if my schooling and professional work have resulted in my brain being less comfortable with abstract and esoteric images. Don’t know. Either way for as much as I loved it, I struggled with the tarot for a long time. I understood the concept of intuitive reading, but my logic-focused brain wasn’t able to make much of the card images. I needed facts. I needed to better understand the esoteric world of tarot; otherwise card meanings seemed arbitrary to a level of pointlessness. I knew they weren’t, but I needed to know why they weren’t.

I finally got what I needed when I was introduced to Rachel Pollack’s brilliant text, 78 Degrees of Wisdom at a tarot workshop in 2007. If you’re even remotely interested in tarot (which I trust you are, as you’re reading this) and haven’t yet read this book, I urge you to get a copy – it’s an invaluable resource. In this book the Pollack explains what’s behind the symbolism of the Major and Minor Arcanas. Rather than just giving pat explanations for card images, she reveals the esoteric traditions and teachings behind the cards; she explains the larger concepts behind the Arcanas, knitting the 78 cards into an understandable whole.