Influences & Resources
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I like to give credit to the teachers and practitioners who have helped me on this journey, and provide some additional resources for you.
Everything here is something I use, recommend in sessions, or learned directly from. Some of it is Tarot and a lot of it is not, because the Tarot has never been the only thing I bring into a reading.
I am still an eternal student, and I still bring a beginner's mindset to this work.
If You Are Learning to Read Tarot
If you are looking to learn to read Tarot yourself, I would be delighted to teach you! We can meet in person or remotely.
The first lesson I give to all newcomers is to trust your own intuition and build your own relationship with the deck before you read what someone else has to say.
When I was first learning, these were the tools I turned to:
Rachel Pollack’s Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom: A Tarot Journey to Self-Awareness is the most cited work of foundational Tarot knowledge there is. Pollack is credited with understanding the Major Arcana through three lines, which I talk about in my readings and my writing constantly.
If you want scholarship, Benebell Wen’s Holistic Tarot: An Integrative Approach to Using Tarot for Personal Growth is academic and exhaustive.
Modern Tarot by Michelle Tea is the fun entry point. The interpretations reflect the author's own journey, so there are some generalizations, but it has a few neat manifestation spells in it, and it will not intimidate anyone.
Lindsay Mack is a podcast host and author, and her contribution to the modern Tarot has been significant. Her approach is trauma-sensitive and non-predictive. She encourages the release of fear-based card interpretations, which is something we share.
My teaching is joy-informed and miracle-minded. I build each lesson around the person in front of me, rather than a static syllabus. If that sounds more like your path, I am here for you.
Practitioners and Tools I Trust
Maureen Whitehouse - After studying A Course in Miracles, Maureen became an author, a counselor, and a course leader. Maureen graduated from the Harvard Divinity School and created her own training in miracle-working.
Her teachings on Miracle Mindedness, Miracle Matrixing, and Miracle Mastery helped me to recognize miracles and bring them to life for others.
Caroline Leon - After beginning my journey of becoming a full-time Tarot practitioner, I soon realized that, while I was a gifted reader, I had no experience running a small business
Caroline has helped me build my business with integrity and soul. Her Soulful Strategy Coaching is designed for business owners who believe in doing well by doing good.
Laura Perkins - If you are curious to learn more about Thetahealing and even want to become a certified healer yourself, Laura is fantastic. She has been a teacher to me, and I have the deepest respect for her work and her writing.
Headspace is the meditation app I use. Most likely, you’re well aware of the benefits of meditation. You’re probably also aware of how difficult creating a regular practice can be. I get Headspace for free, thanks to my healthcare provider. Any tool that helps you align your mind and breath is perfect.
Additional Books
None of these are Tarot books. All of them show up in my sessions.
If you feel creatively stuck, join the millions of people who have gotten unstuck with Julia Cameron’s bestselling 12-week self-guided program in The Artist's Way.
I work with my dreams a lot. If you are interested in dreamwork, I recommend Jeremy Taylor’s book, The Wisdom of Your Dreams
I’ve had the pleasure to learn in person from Arthur Levitan, one of the few Taoist masters in the West. His book, Outlast, contains invaluable lessons on Taoism, business, and life.
Joseph Campbell is cited and quoted by the most important cultural scholars and intellectuals of our time, and for good reason. Introducing the term monomyth in The Hero With A Thousand Faces and other works, he provides a perfect scholastic accompaniment to the Tarot. My work is in alignment with his most famous quote:
“If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are – if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.”
Michael A. Singer's bestseller, The Untethered Soul has been a fantastic resource for me and informs much of my advice on how we can work with the thinking mind to unhook from limiting beliefs.
