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    Personal court card guardian 2022

    We know from THIS blog post that we are going in to a Lovers year in 2022 and that the general court card guardian that partners up with the Lovers is the Knight of Cups. We can take this a step further and work out our personal Major Arcana card Read more…

    By Alison Cross, 1 year1 year ago
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    Court Card Guardian 2022

    In this post, I’ll show you how to find your court card guardian for 2022. You may already be familiar with the technique of working out which Major Arcana card will apply to the incoming year, but if not, I’ll give you a quick resumé on how to calculate it: Read more…

    By Alison Cross, 1 year1 year ago
    Technique Thoughts on Court Cards

    Lifetime Court Card Guardians

    We have worked out what the Year Card will be for 2021 and who our personal guardians will be for 2021 too, but we can also use the same technique to work out our lifelong court card companion. Curious to find out who walks by your side every day of your life?

    Let’s find out!

    First of all, let’s go over the technique for this:

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    By Alison Cross, 2 years2 years ago
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    Knights Pentacles Technique

    Our Court Card for 2021

    You may already be familiar with the technique of working out which Major Arcana card will apply to the incoming year, but if not, I’ll give you a quick resumé on how to calculate it: Take all the digits in the incoming year and add them together. If the answer Read more…

    By Alison Cross, 2 years2 years ago
    Book Technique

    Tarot Kaizen 2020

    WORK CONFIDENTLY WITH A NEW DECK! A few years ago, I created a facebook group for people like me who had lovely (and often expensive!) tarot decks lying at the back of a drawer gathering dust. The goal was to turn these decks into hard-working tarot tools. I created over Read more…

    By Alison Cross, 3 years3 years ago
    Knight of Wands Alexander Daniloff
    Knights Technique Uncategorised Wands

    Court Card for 2020

    Just a bit of Tarot Court Card fun to start us thinking about what we want for ourselves in 2020. I’ve done this for the past four years or so and it’s just a bit of fun, not rooted in any deep and meaningful ancient system. Just my own 🙂 Read more…

    By Alison Cross, 3 years3 years ago
    Pages Swords Tarot DNA Technique

    Tarot Court Cards | Reflection or Person?

    I thought I’d share some more little snippets from my forthcoming Court Card book on the DNA of the Tarot Court – never overlook the importance of the image itself, it can contain a barrow-load of insights! When you look at a Court Card, what do you see – a Read more…

    By Alison Cross, 3 years3 years ago
    Secret Language of Tarot R & W Amberstone
    Book Technique

    The Secret Path in Tarot

    A useful technique to add to your Tarot tool box of skills is looking for a Secret Path between the cards. This is an idea that I first heard about years ago in a book called The Secret Language of Tarot by Ruth and Wald Amberstone. A Secret Path is Read more…

    By Alison Cross, 4 years4 years ago
    Technique

    Your Tarot Court Card for 2018

    Just a bit of Tarot Court Card fun to start us thinking about what we want for ourselves in 2018. I’ve done this for the past couple of years and it’s just a bit of fun, not rooted in any deep and meaningful ancient system. Just my own 🙂 So, Read more…

    By Alison Cross, 5 years4 years ago
    Technique Thoughts on Court Cards

    Gender, sex and appearance in the Court Cards

    Recently I’ve been seeing a few tweets and fb posts about gender and ethnicity in the tarot and how we can ensure that the entire spectrums of both are represented. People, perfectly reasonably, want to see themselves reflected in the tool that they work with on a daily basis. Since Read more…

    By Alison Cross, 6 years3 years ago

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    If you have been struggling to understand the Tarot’s Court Cards, then you have come to the right place!

    Since 2012 I’ve been writing almost exclusively about the Page, Knight, Queen and King cards (and all the other variations in between!) and have hundreds of Court Card blog posts for you to read so that you can become an expert in the Tarot’s court cards!

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    My love of Sgt Catherine Cawood remains undiminis My love of Sgt Catherine Cawood  remains undiminished! Bought a bracelet to ask myself:  what would sgt Cawood do? In any tricky situation ❤

#happyvalley #catherinecawood #lunagillespie
    working on my desktop, so no way to share this oth working on my desktop, so no way to share this other than to screenshot it and tag @rebeldeck because this is such a MASSIVE FREAKIN' PROBLEM. 

I get at LEAST 3 emails a week saying the equivalent of 'bought the Wildwood Tarot deck but the download url isn'T working, please send pdf of lwb' 

Mostly there is no 'please' 🤣

Just stop it. Do your due diligence as a buyer. Buy legit decks. If you don't, the whole tarot deck creation matrix will splinter into a billion bits. 

#counterfeit #fake #tarotdecks #cheaptarot
    Today's tarot court card: The Queen of Pentacles. Today's tarot court card: The Queen of Pentacles. Ah this is a lovely image to have at Imbolc, the first of the year's fire festivals (I think that ALL the festivals were fire festivals. Can you imagine ancient Celts passing up the chance to have a fire?!) The Queen plays on her bodhran with a long bone. Behind her a hare pauses in its winter white. At her feet snowdrops blossom. The Taurus bull decorates her throne.

Today it's all about music and song - make time for music so that it can work its weird, restorative magic on you. Don't believe me? A 2013 study in the Journal of Positive Psychology found that people who listened to upbeat music could improve their moods and boost their happiness in just two weeks (thank you Google!)

Start today!

#queenofpentacles #druidcrafttarot #bodrhan #tarotcourtcarddna #celtictarot #wiccantarot #paganwitch
    Today's tarot court card: The King of Wands from t Today's tarot court card: The King of Wands from the Druidcraft Tarot. What can I say about this King, purely from the image? His ears are decorated - we can see them and his head has only a circlet, so he's open hearing and thinking about other people's thoughts and opinions. 
His heart area is covered and highly decorated with his collar (salamander biting its tail), so he's not someone who dwells much on keeping good relationships - action is where it's at! 
What he holds in his hand is his Wand. His shield is by his side, he has no other obvious weapons. We cannot see the tip of his Wand - he's not much interested in fighting or even defending himself. Although that left hand is a bit of a fist - could be roused to a punch maybe? 😃 
As far as his passions go, well, look at that belt tail hanging down his leg and - if that is't enough, look at the marks the edge of the throne makes on his robe between his legs - this guy is PASSION in action. He's got the Aries ram's head decorating his throne - head-strong, fiery and determined.
Although he looks out at us from the card - engaged, passionate and open - he is still inclined towards the past (that right foot pointing left). I feel that he is saying 'Tell me what you want to do! Let's get it done together!' 
So that's his message today - what do you really want to do? What is the passion that sets you ALIGHT? Today's the day for embarking on whatever makes you feel alive! 
And yeah, damn the consequences - this guy is not looking ahead 😃 You've been warned 😃

#druidcrafttarot #kingofwands #pagantarot #celtictarot #aries #tarot2023 #dailytarotdraw
    Today's tarot card: (forgot to do one yesterday - Today's tarot card: (forgot to do one yesterday - sorry lol!) Another Princess today, the Princess of Swords. Surrounded by signs of Spring (instagram won't let me resize the card - apologies for cutting the top off her head!), she is a lovely card to draw as we celebrate Imbolc tomorrow.

Barefoot, our young Princess wraps a ribbon around the blade of her sword. The wind whips at the ragged edges of her clothing. 

As a 'Page' equivalent, she is about beginnings - small things, minor things, open-hearted approach to life. 

As a Sword, her family traits are about head-centred traits - thinking, logic, study, lists, communication, truth etc. 

Smooshing these two sets of keywords together we get small thinking, minor communication, beginning study ... 

And tomorrow I start wrangling a year-long tarot study course into the Wildwood Tarot (those courts to come next lol!) and I will be surrounded by Princesses of Swords (and a good few Knights, Queens and Kings as well, I hope!)

The Princess says: 

Got a problem? Create a list? 
Got a big mental task you can't get your head around - break it into small pieces.
Begin a course of study.

#tarot #tarotcourtcarddna #princessofswords #druidcrafttarot #divinationtools
    Last call for anyone wishing to study along with A Last call for anyone wishing to study along with A Year In The Wildwood over in the facebook wildwood study group! 

First post for #imbolc goes up at 4pm uk time today! 

You absolutely don't need to buy my book to take part - the prompts will be in the group. But it will help keep me afloat while I work in the group :D 

See you there! 

#wildwoodtarot #yearinthewildwood #tarotstudy #pagantarot #celtictarot #divinationcommunity
    This is me. The fake account sliding into your DMs This is me. The fake account sliding into your DMs has blocked me. Instagram says that the person pretending to be me is doing nothing wrong. I don't know how that can be the case. May these scammers reap the whirlwind. #tarot #tarotreadersofinstagram
    today's tarot court card: The King of Pentacles - today's tarot court card: The King of Pentacles - Fire of Earth - what a perfect guy for me to remind you to DO YOUR TAX RETURN TODAY as they have to be in by the end of the month.

This character is very confident and competent. He's asking you to take a look at your finances today - every penny saved is a penny you don't have to earn! What subscriptions can you renegotiate/cancel? But it's not just about cancelling money obligations - it's about adding savvy ones too. 

#tarot #kingofpentacles #winter #robinredbreast #BoarsHeadforDinner #tarotcourtcarddna #druidcraft #divinationtools
    Went to see #heilung in Glasgow on Sunday night. F Went to see #heilung in Glasgow on Sunday night. First gig I've ever gone to on my own in my life. 

A mixture of shamanic, ancient and ecstatic sounds and ritual. I absolutely loved it.

Seeing Maria's antlers appear through the smokey stage sent shivers down my spine. The Deer Mother.
The whole experience was superb! 

#heilungtribe #glasgowgigs #paganmusic #tribal #deermother
    Over on Facebook, in the #wildwoodtarot study grou Over on Facebook, in the #wildwoodtarot study group, I will be starting the yearlong journey from A Year In The Wildwood.

You don't need to buy my book because the prompts will be made in the group (but obviously, if you DO buy the book, it helps keep the wolf from my door and I get some £ reward for a truckload of effort lol!) 

First post goes up on 31 January for Imbolc. Head on over there and join (answer all the membership questions please!) to get ahead of the curve! 

#yearinthewildwood #wildwood #tarotstudy #divinationtools #celtictarot #pagantarot
    Today's tarot court card: The Queen of Cups from t Today's tarot court card: The Queen of Cups from the Druidcraft Tarot. As Water of Water, she is fully engaged with her relationships - they are her Kingdom. She is not the sort of person to chat with one eye on the door to see who else will arrive. She'll make you feel like you are the only person in the room.

Give each person you interact with your full attention today.

#tarotcourtcarddna <- my tarot court card book :D 

#tarot #queenofcups #druidcrafttarot #fullmoon #celtictarot #celticdesign #divinationcommunity #tarotcourtcards
    Today's tarot court card: The Queen of Wands from Today's tarot court card: The Queen of Wands from The Druidcraft Tarot. Sure of herself, passionate and assertive, the Queen of Wands urges us to remember and be kind when we're pressing forwards. Live with passion, light a couple of fires and don't be afraid to use that Wand!

#tarot #queenofwands #druidcrafttarot #wildcats #fire

#tarotcourtcarddna <- my tarot court card book 😃
    Today's tarot court card: Prince of Cups (Air of W Today's tarot court card: Prince of Cups (Air of Water). This character seeks emotional connection - romantic, idealistic, he is our Grail Knight. The Grail is already in your hands, do you recognise it? Today the Prince of Cups suggests that instead of LOOKING for love, you FIND it in all the relationships that connect you to others - your family, your partner, your siblings, your kids, your colleagues, your friends, your employees, your pets, the girl that walks past you in the street with her head down. 
#tarot #knightofcups #princeofcups #tarotcourtcarddna #druidcrafttarot #willworthington #dailytarotdraw #kightonhorseback #grailknights
    While deciding what #tarotbook to write next, I've While deciding what #tarotbook to write next, I've been painting some #tinylandscapes. Hopefully the next book will not take as long as #tarotcourtcarddna 😄
    I have not been on Instagram for the longest time I have not been on Instagram for the longest time because I was starting to feel discouraged  and overwhelmed.  Yesterday I was reminded of what a marvellous community it can be with so many lovely people not only taking time to let me know my account had been spoofed, but also to help report it. Have a photo of Loki as a thank you 😁

#loki #rescuedogsofinstagram #blackdog #greyhoundsofinstagram #thankyou
    This is not me. Please report the account that has This is not me. Please report the account that has my name spelled this way.
    At last I have the fair copy of court card dna in At last I have the fair copy of court card dna in my hands! Self published on Amazon and as a paperback only! I hope it helps people work creatively with #tarot #courtcards #divinationcommunity #tarotbook #tarotlife
    At long last! My tarot cort card book manuscript i At long last! My tarot cort card book manuscript is loaded up! #authorproof ordered. Almost finished- after years of tears, sweat and more tears lol!

#tarotcourtcards #tarotbook #selfpub #courtcards #divinationcommunity #tarotlife
    I had about 40 tiny landscapes that I had built up I had about 40 tiny landscapes that I had built up over 2022. I sold them for £10 each to my friends via Facebook and raised over £300 (£340 to be exact) for DEC Ukrainian Appeal and a small boots-on-the-ground animal charity in Donetsk.

#art #charityart #decukraine #tinylandscapes
    Yes, I know that I have a book to finish writing, Yes, I know that I have a book to finish writing, but painting takes me out of my head and into my body. 

#tinylandscapes #watercolor #amateurart #groundingtechniques
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