11/11/2025
It started when we read ‘Red Tarot’ in a book club. Through this text I was drawn to the concept of Tarot, especially being written via a decolonial lens.
I didn’t intend to offer it as a service, I was just hoping to learn from the decolonial writings of Christopher Marmolejo, as part of an ongoing decolonisation and social justice journey.
As time rolled on, I found a groove with how my reading was translating the messages of the cards, letting me see the how and why of what I potentially bring to the space.
For me it’s pretty different to other sessions — in the moment it feels like I’m not really ‘doing’ as much. I’m not digging around in your energy, trying to unpack and explain the depths of whats been stored away in your aura. This time I’m more so standing in the one spot, and delivering Tarot translation. The querent (you), naturally reflects on what it is speaking to, causing the energetic ‘neurons’ within to start sparking to life.
You make the connections, and I’m there as a guide and witness.
As the guide and witness I translate and share messages from the cards to help show the whole picture of the spread, both as individual cards, and through their relationship with each other. I translate what they mean in 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 reading, in the way the cards have come out for 𝘺𝘰𝘶.
As I’m so used to feeling 𝗮𝗹𝗹 the emotions and energy in a session, it’s taken time to feel ‘part’ of the readings. It appears I’m not as ‘in’ the energy as I have been, but more so a conduit of the medicine.
Whether it stays like that or shifts, and/or what that means, we shall see!
I both dislike and am enticed by the beginners feeling I’ve had with this modality.
I got SO lucky with the folks who volunteered to be my practice reads… they each gave me just what (I didn’t know) I needed, in a perfect layering-of-information way, almost as though it was arranged by a bigger vision…?!
It’s been a long time since I’ve felt like a newbie in healing work, but I’m now at ease with that feel, as each reading and querent has given more of the behind-the-scenes vibe.
I’m excited to see the full picture reveal itself.
AB. x
