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I write, read, doodle. Author of I Ching, The Oracle • The Tao of Craft • Holistic Tarot • I swear this is not a food blog. No DMs, please. 🇹🇼🇺🇸

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My cat gives spiritual healing to the person my tarot card reading was for. Cats are spiritual negative vacuum’s. A witches familiar or spirit animal. Does your cat do this? .

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I am thoroughly enjoying @foolishfishbooks #ForbiddenKeys online esoteric extravaganza this weekend.

Yesterday I was especially blown away by Benebell Wei's @bellwen's truly superb presentation: The Taoist Grimoire Tradition: On the Book of Methods, Celestial Script, and the Primordial Language.

Really looking forward to today's sessions! 🌟

Check out the full line up here:

foolishfish.net

#tao #heaven #earth #microcosmicorbit

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**The Archives of the Wild Soul: Book Recs for the Ancestral Bridge 🌌🕯️**

As a witchy therapist and PhD student, my work is about remembering. I study the ancient, ancestral spiritual roots of healing, weaving what was forgotten back into how we heal today. The books on our altars and shelves are more than pages; they are portals, catalysts, and medicine.

For the next part of this viral series, these are the texts calling to the depths of our subconscious right now:

🔥 **The Holy Wild** by Danielle dulsky @wolfwomanwitch – A fierce, raw invocation of the untamed feminine. This book doesn’t just teach; it awakens the primal, bone-deep truth of your power and strips away the clinical numbness of the modern world. @wolfwomanwitch

🌙 **The Jasmine & Moonology Books & Journals** by @planetyasminboland – A complete map for aligning your internal tides with the celestial currents. Syncing your psyche with the moon is foundational ancestral magic, and these journals are the perfect container for that devotion.

🃏 **Holistic Tarot** by @bellwen @bellwen – The definitive masterwork for treating the cards as a mirror to the soul. This text elevates the tarot from a simple divination tool into a rigorous, profound architecture for subconscious integration and archetypal shadow work.

The veil is thin, and the library is open. Which of these portals are you stepping through first? Let me know in the comments. 👇✨

#Witchy #Therapist #books #reading AncestralSpiritualRoots #tarot moon healing spooky season fall autumn Halloween readinglist TheHolyWild Moonology HolisticTarot SubconsciousIntegration CosmicMagic ShadowWork WitchcraftAndPsychology AncestralMedicine SpiritualAwakening

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#ownyourmagictarotchallenge @lionharts #spiritkeeperstarotrevelationedition2 @bellwen
Day 19 There are times when all the work we've done is no longer important because some thing outside your power has taken over. You have to deal with it right now... yes, this is unplanned and difficult, but it is always amazing how people can adjust and use what they have from a lifetime of experience to pivot and conquer the situation.

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Minhas mulheres que fizeram e fazem História no TAROT!

Sem elas o Tarot não seria o mesmo!

Tenho todos os livros delas e tudo o que publicarem irei comprar.

Admiro demais ❤️

🫶🏻🙌🏻❤️📚

#tarot #taro #tarotcards #fyp #books

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if i had to start my witchy library all over again these are the first 20 books i’d get… this list has a bit of everything… herbalism, animism, occult and esoterica, tarot… these are some of my all time faves.
which books would be on your list?

as always sending love from the land 🍃🫶🏻

TITLE LIST:

•Holistic Tarot by Benebwll Wen @bellwen
•Braiding Sweet Grass by Robin Wall Kimmerer @robinwallkimmerer
•Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes @clarissapinkolaestes
•The Psychic Art of Tarot by Mat Auryn @matauryn
•Seventy Eight Degrees of Wisdom by Rachel Pollack
•Witchcraft from Tachen’s the Library of Esoterica @thelibraryofesoterica
•Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs by Scott Cunningham
•Entering Hekate’s Garden by Cyndi Brannen
•The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy by Valerie Ann Worwood
•Energetic Herbalism by Kat Maier @katmaier7
•The Herbal Apothecary by JJ Purcell
•Slava! By Anna Urosevic Applegate @annaurosevicapplegate_author
•How to Read and Intepret a Birth Chart by Laurie Farrington @laurie.farrington_astrolore
•Baba Yaga’s Book of Witchcraft by Madame Pamita @madamepamita
•The Book of Symbols by Taschen @taschen
•Occult by Peter Forshaw @petrus.malus
•Numerology and the Divine Triangle by Faith Javane & Dusty Bunker
•Crystalopedia by Athena Perrakis
•Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine by Andrew Chevallier
•Consorting with Spirits by Jason Miller

#booktok #folkmagic #witchcraft #esotericwisdom #occultbooks

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I periodically purge my bookshelf, and not gonna lie—I have high turnover. There are some, though, that I read over and over again. Some have been with me for over a decade.

It really makes me think and honor the different teachers in my life. Some alive, some no longer living. Some I have the privilege of calling friends, others I might not know as well, and others who I never met.

In all circumstances, I reflect on interconnectedness and dependent origination. What I call “my approach” or “my philosophy” is really an amalgamation and expression of the wisdom and minds of others.

Anyone who knows me has heard me say (tongue in cheek) that I’m “#blessed.” In this post, I really mean it: I’m #blessed

Xoxo

#tarot #witchcraft

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I was thinking about the difference between the Wheel of Fortune and the 2 of Pentacles, and how differently they can express the idea of Change.

Change can look very different depending on how much control we have over it.

For this post, I only used Thoth and Thoth-inspired decks, where Change is such an important keyword.

The main difference between the Wheel of Fortune and the 2 of Disks is that the Wheel contains something the 2 of Disks doesn’t: unpredictability.

When the wheel turns, you don’t necessarily get to decide when or how things change. There’s fate, chance, changing circumstances, the inevitable ups and downs that you simply have to adjust to.

The 2 of Pentacles feels more like: “Okay, things are changing - let’s see how I can deal with it.”

There’s movement and instability, but also an active response, trying to keep your balance while things are moving.

Same thing, but a very different relationship with change. And that’s what I found interesting about these two.

What I also find interesting is that in both the Tarot Petrak and the Thoth Journey Tarot, we get this image of a window opening onto a world of change - but the symbolism is assigned to different cards: “Glück” (meaning luck, major arcanum number X) in the Tarot Petrak, and the 2 of Disks in the Thoth Journey Tarot.

#ThothTarot #TarotChange #WheelOfFortune #twoofdisks #ThothInspired

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It’s Reshelving Day!

Part of my writing process is letting my books pile up around me as I’m doing research and drafting. Then, when I’m finally done, I get to take a day and reshelve all the books back to their homes (and remove a LOT of sticky notes). It’s a peaceful and calming ritual that also reminds me just how many giants’ shoulders I’m standing on every time I write.

So I thought I’d share that with you and let you see some of the books that were with me this time around! Great ones include:
-Popular Magic, Owen Davies
-Cunning Folk, @tabithastanmore
-Tradition of Household Spirits, Claude Lecouteux
-Dictionary of Superstitions, Opie & Tatem
-Witches, Ghosts, & Signs, Patrick Gainer
-Tao of Craft, @bellwen
-Cunning Man’s Handbook, Jim Baker
-Annotated African American Folktales, @henrylouisgates & @grimmoir
-Book of English Magic, Carr-Gomm & Heygate
-Distaff Gospels, trans. Jeay/Garay
-Cunning Folk & Familiar Spirits, Emma Wilby
-Mules & Men, Z. Hurston
-Spiritual Merchants, C. Morrow Long
-Mojo Workin’, K. Hazzard-Donald
-Secret History of Memphis Hoodoo, Tony Kail
-Voodoo & Power, Kodi Roberts
-Herbal & Magical Medicine, J.W. Kirkland, ed.
-Slave Religion, A. Raboteau
-Witches of the Atlantic World, E. Breslaw, ed.
-Sigil Witchery, @owlkeyme.arts

So many sticky notes! So much to reshelve! (and I know I look more and more deranged as I go on, but the books are just so good!)

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i get asked what are my favorite tarot books all the time… a while back, i posted a tarot book list but here is an updated one… these are my absolute fav books on tarot and divination.

TITLE LIST:

•Dark Shadow, Golden Shadow — Shannon Knight @thetarotdiagnosis
•The Psychic Art of Tarot— Mat Auryn @matauryn
•Tarot for Light Seers — Chris-Anne @pixiecurio
•Seventy Eight Degrees of Wisdom — Rachel Pollack
•Tarot for Change — Jessica Dore @thejessicadore
•The Way of Tarot — Alejandro Jadorowsky
•Holistic Tarot — Benebelle Wen @bellwen
•Tarot for The Wild Soul — Lindsay Mack @wildsoulhealing
•The Essential Lenormand — Rana George @ranageorge1
•Tarot @thelibraryofesoterica series by @taschen @jesshundley with writing by wonderful @marcellakroll

as always sending love from the land 🍃🫶🏻

#esotericwisdom #tarotcommunity #tarotbooks #tarot #tarotwisdom

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When you are researching another book... You pull out the big guns!

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Some decks have a special kind of magic for me: seeing the artist’s original line work before it blossoms into the final, fully realized vision.

I love comparing those early monochrome editions - printed in a single ink color from the original line art - with their later full-color counterparts.

There’s Benebell Wen’s Spirit Keeper’s Tarot. The journey from the original black-and-white First Edition, to the sepia-toned Vitruvian Edition, and finally to the breathtaking full-color Revelation Edition is one of the most fascinating artistic evolutions I’ve seen in tarot.

Medicine Woman Tarot also exists in an early monochrome edition, printed in burgundy ink. The artwork feels wonderfully raw and intimate, bringing you closer to the artist’s original drawings before color created an entirely different atmosphere.

And then Light Visions served as the blueprint for Prisma Visions. Although the two decks share the same imagery, Light Visions presents it in a striking burgundy monochrome style, offering a fascinating glimpse into the artistic foundation that later evolved into the vibrant, dreamlike world of Prisma Visions.

There’s something incredibly intimate about these early editions. You can almost see the artist’s hand moving across the paper before color enters the conversation.

Do you enjoy collecting these “before and after” versions of a deck? Which one do you prefer?

#spiritkeeperstarot #medicinewomantarot #prismavisionstarot #inkart #blueprintarts

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