How do I introduce myself to a room full of strangers?
With a smile, of course.
We are story beings. We make sense of our lives through the stories we tell, the experiences we carry, and the meanings we discover along the way. For me, tarot offers a way to bring those stories into conversation with the energies around us, using imagery.
I think of each card as a book about human experience. The traditional meanings offer a starting point, but the chapters continue to grow through study, practice, and living.
Every time I draw a card, study it, or recognize its themes in my own life, something new can attach itself to that image. A meaning becomes more personal. A familiar symbol gains another layer. Over time, the cards become a visual language through which I believe the Universe and our guides can communicate.
When a card appears in a reading, it can feel as though a book opens inside me. A particular chapter comes forward, along with a sense of what wants to be addressed.
That language is still growing. So am I.
I believe anyone can learn to read tarot. My own practice includes daily readings, monthly reflections, and yearly readings. I’m always learning something about the cards—and about myself through them. Even after fifteen years, I consider myself a practitioner, with plenty still to discover.
I began with tarot spreads: arrangements of cards in which each position has a particular question or purpose. I used spreads from books and other practitioners, then eventually created my own for the people I was reading for.
That structure helped me learn. It gave me somewhere to begin and a way to explore how the cards related to one another.
Today, I tend to let them flow more naturally. I choose the deck I’m drawn to, turn the cards, and watch how they speak to each other. We ask questions along the way, and additional cards help us explore or clarify what comes forward.
It is a conversation—with the cards, with you, and with the guidance I invite into the reading.
I believe we have spirit teams assisting us as we move through life. Although I don’t subscribe to the idea that we are ever truly “off our path,” I do believe there is merit in stopping to check in: What is available to us now? What feels aligned with who we are? What might be in our highest and best interests to choose at this moment?
This is where the idea of “homework” enters my readings.
I trust our guides to draw attention to who you are, what you’re navigating, and what is accessible and actionable for you. Sometimes that offers something to do. Sometimes it offers something to notice, reconsider, or make room for.
The next step doesn’t have to be dramatic to matter.
Through lived experience, I’ve come to believe that engaging with what is in front of us can shift our lives profoundly. And when I speak about alignment, I mean becoming more fully ourselves—recognizing what matters to us and learning to live accordingly.
That isn’t always easy. I am, and will always be, in process.
Some of the greatest joy in my life has come with the steps I’ve taken toward myself, even when I’ve had to walk through fire to get there. I offer my personal approach to tarot in the hope that it can support you in experiencing some of that connection, too.
And it’s not all difficulties.
You and I are worthy of celebration, of being witnessed, and of love. There is room at the table for what is going well, what is beginning, and what makes us feel alive.
Tarot has this beautiful way of pulling back the curtain on the modern world and ruffling our hair, patting our backs, and tucking a little fairy dust into our pockets before sending us on our way for another round of humaning.
That is the kind of conversation I hope to share with you.
I hope you’ll choose to indulge yourself in the magic, mystery, and mayhem.
With warmth,
Holly
