Hey dudes. My name is Jessica. I am a beginner tarot reader. I keep this blog to compile all the data I generate into one place. Right now, my routine is that I pull a weekly card on Sunday evenings, and a Daily card every morning at breakfast. When I have the energy for it, I photograph my Daily and Weekly cards with my laptop's webcam and post to flickr (and will cross post here) with a breif synopsis of how I'm interpreting it for the week/day. I occasionally (read: not as often as I'd like) do 3 or 4 card readings for myself, or for friends. I try my best to keep details about my friends and coworkers quite minimal, though they are generally aware that I blog about my readings.
I currently own two tarot decks:
1. The Rider Tarot Deck (Arthur Edward Waite, Pamela Colman Smith)
2. Tell-Me Tarot (Arik Eyal, Nir Cassuto)
I treat the Rider-Waite like a banger deck, a very multi-purpose deck. When I read for myself, I tend to be drawn to the Tell-Me Tarot which I find to be less harsh in its colourways, and the illustrations are a little tamer and friendlier. Right now my intention isn't to collect decks, but I will probably acquire a few more if I stick with reading Tarot cards for a while.
My Tarot philosophy, so far, at least, is that anybody can read tarot cards if they want to put in the time. I don't know if people can be psychic or not- I don't expect to ever know this with certainty- and I don't think that's what you need to read tarot cards. I think that a good tarot deck uses symbology that can inspire anybody to tell the story of the human experience. We pull what we need from the pictures in the cards.
