TAROT READINGS WITH A DIFFERENCE!

From speakeasies in Saigon, cocktail bars in Bangkok, and Tapas jaunts in Malaga, as well as curated social and corporate events across Manchester, welcome to The Nomadic Tarot Mistress experience.

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What to expect from a Tarot reading from me?

I don’t know about you, but the thought of Tarot reading can instill a sense of toe-curling mockery and eyeball rolling from deep within. Memories of those fortune tellers ready and waiting for you to depart from your hard-earned dollar on the sea front in Blackpool; phone lines with X amount standard per minute charges to tell you something that you desperately want, nay need, to hear about the forlorn state of your love life; and kooky, stuffy, moth-ball, new-age stores promising to tell all about the secrets of the caverns of your heart if you cross their palm with silver!**

Yep. I get it. I really do!

Once upon a time, I was a-thirsting for all this too. Looking for answers. Denying my darkness. Seeking the truth from incense-uous soft voices and angel pooping cliches wherever I could grasp!

Over the years I was forced to my knees and found holy-moly spirit in the mud & the earth. In the rawness of the real. And in the sacred dirt-iness that makes us whole-y divine. It wasn’t pretty. It never is darlings. A life that negates the shadow loses its grip. It’s unhealthy, and is a one-way ticket to resentment, passive-aggressive behaviour, withheld and denied anger, and delusion coated illusion. Better to put your big girl brave pants on, wipe the faux tears away, and buckle-up buttercup. Better to dive straight into the shit and find your home here for a while. Better to embrace the cruel edges of your curled lip and your acid tongue that can revel in its cleverness, than to pretend that you’re holier than thou. You’re not. None of us are. That’s just the way it is.

That is, you’re not alone in your messy, irrational, and unreasonable humanness. Now ain’t that a fucking relief hey?!

So. Tarot. That’s where I started these musings isn’t it.

I’ve been a dabbler for a long time. I can’t even recall when Tarot lit me up in curiosity. Maybe it’s my gypsy Romanian nomadic roots. Maybe it’s the romantic sorceress within me. Or maybe it’s the love of all things Coney Island, tattoo artists, and that sweet, strange world that tilts over the edge. I like the edge. It’s where life gets interesting.

About eight years back I decided to say a mighty yes to learning this practice for real. I hired an amazing teacher and worked one-to-one with her for over a year. Encouraged to buy a new pack that resonated with the artist, entrepreneur & storyteller within, I found the Bonefire Tarot deck and it makes my soul sing in delight.

Now, I’m not one for divining the future. Fuck that! The future is what we create as we choose and step over and over into the next moment. Endless options, fuelled by penny lust or hot sweated fear. We roll the die and fate slips their arm into ours and skips us down a merry road. Again and again, moment by moment, we create the unfurling void before us. Love or fear. Leaning in or leaning out. Yes or No. We are the co-creators, the collaborators, and our destiny lies in our own alive awareness.

However, Tarot can help you with anchoring into what you already know.

To hear exactly what your intuition is really speaking with and to you about.

To sink into & meet what your heart knows to be true even if your mind wants a sword-fighting duel to the death!

We are all the storytellers of our lives.

We cast spells when we speak, write, and share the intricacies of our hearts’ yearnings and desires. We are magic and wonder and all the mystery of life mixed in a semblance of cells, and breath and flesh and dreaming and love and desire and human folly. We are being and becoming. We are learning and forgetting and remembering. Sometimes, often. Several times a minute!

When I pull a Tarot card, we’re pausing the turning of the world for a moment. In that exact point of time, with you here leaning over in anticipation, and me as the beholder of responsibility and respect for this strange storytelling practice, a card can reveal something that is known. A known amonst the unknown. A Knowing within the Not-Knowing.

As with all things ritual, we create the space for connecting into something deeper than the realm that we can see and make sense of. And yet, as we all know, so much of life does not make sense. To be honest, most of life is ridiculously perplexing, stubborn in its motive, and turning over its own cards in a trickster-led glee that often rocks and rolls us in its chaos. What a ride!

Sometimes we just need the pause in order to listen. To really listen to what is true for you.

The cards tell a story of a path, and where you are on this path. Just like the archetypes of Carl Jung or the stages along Joseph Campbell's Hero’s Journey, each card represents a place for learning, reflection, growth, possibility, conversation and understanding. The symbols are universal and are no more esoteric than avoiding walking under a ladder on the high street or throwing salt over your shoulder. Counting magpies, avoiding cracks in the road, seeing white feathers as lucky, and answering the phone to a friend you literally were just thinking of.

You can call these coincidences, synchronicities, old wives’ tales, miracles and superstitions, but we are all folded into these customs and lores, some ancient to our own religions and cultures, some gained over time from the stories we have told over and over again that create thick grooves that repeat like a record player needle-dropping created blueprint, old, known, worn, and trusted.

The cards won’t tell you the lottery numbers, but they can support in empowering you. And they can be playful & fun, just like life itself, if we dare not to really take any of it seriously at all! Aaah the grand paradox of life. Take your life seriously as the gift that it is, and, at the same time, don’t take any of it seriously at all. Your choice darling, the decision is yours!

For me, the cards have been incredibly useful and inspiring. And using them as an aid whether with clients in coaching sessions, or with leaders and teams in interrupting old pattterns of thinking has added a new layer to the work that I offer.

So, why not step up, pull a chair, shuffle the pack, turn over a card or three, and let’s make magic together!

In raw truth, in holy wonder, in real voice, and in fierce love,

HH aka THE NOMADIC TAROT MISTRESS XXX

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**Who am I kidding? I absolutely love that shit!! 😊