The Tarot Shop UK

05/12/2025

Documenting your daily tarot readings can deepen your understanding, track patterns, and help you connect more closely with your intuition. Each card pulled is a chance to reflect, learn, and grow—writing it down makes the wisdom stick. Start your tarot journaling journey today and watch your insights unfold!

05/12/2025

Rose Quartz
Now we take a look at one of the most popular crystals used alongside tarot, Rose Quartz. This is a soft and gentle stone that brings a warm and open feeling into the reading space, and it helps create an atmosphere that feels safe and kind.
Rose Quartz has a strong connection to the heart. It softens emotional tension and supports honest and steady communication during a reading. If you are exploring questions around relationships or healing or self worth this crystal helps the reading feel calm and balanced.
It is also helpful when you want to be present without absorbing someone else’s emotions. Rose Quartz creates a subtle sense of protection so you can stay clear and supportive without taking on the mood of the moment. This is especially useful when you are reading for someone who feels uncertain or vulnerable.
Many readers place Rose Quartz beside the deck before a reading. Some like to hold it briefly to settle the heart, while others keep it on the table so the space feels gentle and grounded. It is also a lovely stone to keep inside your tarot bag if you want your deck to carry a softer feeling.
Rose Quartz is warm, nurturing and supportive which makes it one of the most trusted crystals for tarot readings.

03/12/2025

Good morning, tarot lovers!
Continuing the Women in Tarot series this week, I’ve been looking into the life of Moina Mathers. Most people know the name of her husband, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, one of the founders of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, but Moina’s work was every bit as important — she quietly helped build the symbolic foundation that shaped modern tarot.
Here’s what I’ve discovered so far:
• Moina was born Mina Bergson in 1865, the sister of philosopher Henri Bergson, who later won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Clearly creativity and intellect ran in the family!
• She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, where she developed her skills as an artist and a deep fascination with spiritual symbolism.
• In 1890, at around twenty-five years old, she married Samuel Mathers, who was already an established occult scholar about ten years her senior. Together they became leading figures in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a magical society whose teachings became the backbone of modern Western esotericism.
• Samuel worked to uncover what he called the “secret language of symbolism,” connecting tarot with astrology, alchemy, numerology and the Kabbalah — and Moina helped bring that language to life through her art.
• She designed the banners, robes, and temple artwork used in Golden Dawn rituals, creating visual systems of colour and symbolism that expressed deep spiritual meanings.
• Those same designs and colour correspondences were recorded in the Golden Dawn’s secret manuscripts — the very teachings that Arthur Edward Waite later studied.
• When Waite commissioned Pamela Colman Smith to illustrate his tarot deck in 1909, he gave her written instructions based on the Golden Dawn system — the same one that Moina had helped create.
• So while Pamela and Moina never met, the imagery of the Rider–Waite–Smith Tarot is directly descended from Moina’s ritual and artistic work.
She definitely earns her place in our Women in Tarot series! If you know more about Moina or her influence on tarot symbolism, please share with us all xx ❤️

03/12/2025

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02/12/2025

Hello everyone, December Tarotscopes are ready and live.

All twelve signs are now on the channel and I have to say the readings feel especially clear this month. I hope they bring you guidance, comfort and a little spark of magic for the weeks ahead.'

Watch your sign, your rising sign or whichever reading calls to you: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEAOjGk7FxbeDHW91QfOY2MT8B1jUadaa&si=4_7Lmh1C80nH8mOE

Thank you, as always, for your support.
Maria x ❤️

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02/12/2025

Start your day with a tarot card pull to gain insight, guidance, and clarity. Daily reflection helps you tune into your intuition, notice patterns, and navigate life with mindfulness. Even a single card can spark meaningful thoughts and personal growth. Take a moment to pause, reflect, and connect with your inner wisdom.

02/12/2025

🔮✨ Pick a Card Portal is OPEN ✨🔮
Close your eyes, ask the universe what you need right now… then choose the card calling your name: 1, 2, or 3.
Your guidance will be revealed below.
💛 Trust your intuition — it never lies.

Deck Used: [Botanical Dreams Oracle]

01/12/2025

The December tarotscopes will be live tonight at 6pm (UK time). All 12 are ready, and I hope they bring you a bit of clarity, reassurance and guidance for the month ahead.
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For those who’ve asked about ways to support the readings, I now have a Buy Me a Coffee page:
https://buymeacoffee.com/thetarotshopuk

See you at 6pm!
Maria x ❤️

01/12/2025

01/12/2025

Etteilla
Next up in our Men in Tarot series is Etteilla, and he’s a really important one. He’s the first person we can confidently point to and say, yes, he actually read tarot for people. Proper readings, proper clients, proper system. Before him, tarot was still just a card game. After him, it suddenly had a purpose.
He was born Jean-Baptiste Alliette in 1738, and when he started writing about his methods, he simply flipped his surname around and became Etteilla. Much more intriguing than Alliette, and it gave him a bit of a mystical edge, which I quite like.
Now, he wasn’t part of the nobility or any great secret order. He was a Parisian hairdresser. And honestly, that says a lot. Imagine the conversations in a busy eighteenth-century salon. People telling him their problems, their romances, their money worries. It’s no surprise he became skilled at understanding people, because he spent his whole day listening to them.
But here’s where he changed tarot forever. Etteilla didn’t just read the cards — he published one of the very first tarot reading systems, complete with card meanings, reversals, spreads, astrology, and elements. He taught people how to read for themselves. And he created the very first tarot deck designed purely for divination rather than gameplay. That’s a huge leap in tarot history, and a lot of modern reading techniques can be traced right back to him.
We actually stock a reproduction of his deck if you’ve ever been curious to see what early divinatory tarot looked like. It’s a fascinating piece of tarot history.
https://the-tarot-shop.co.uk/product/etteilla-tarot/

01/12/2025

🔮 Pick a Card!
Take a moment, breathe deeply, and choose the card you feel most drawn to: 1, 2, or 3.
Your message will reveal what energy is guiding you today.✨

Check in comments to reveal your card

Deck Used: [Botanical Dreams Oracle]

01/12/2025

🌕 Next Full Moon: 4th December @ 11:14pm (UK) 🌕

Crystal lovers, get ready — the next Full Moon is on 4th December, and it’s the perfect time to cleanse, charge and refresh your energy tools. ✨

Full Moon light helps to:
✨ Clear stagnant energy
✨ Recharge your crystals
✨ Strengthen intentions
✨ Realign your spiritual focus

If you’re planning to charge your crystals, simply place them on a windowsill or outdoors where they can soak up that beautiful lunar energy. Set your intention, take a deep breath… and let the magic do the rest. 🌙💎

Which crystals are you charging this month?

— The Tarot Shop UK 🔮