Stirring the Cauldron - Episode 598: Amy Blackthorn-Tarot in Spellwork

Episode 598: Amy Blackthorn-Tarot in Spellwork

05/20/22 • 57 min

Tarot is a wonderful divination tool on its own, but even better when you enhance your readings by adding Tarot into your spellwork. It will allow you to do some incredibly powerful magic Amy has an upcoming class in June about working with The Major Arcana in the Tarot. In that class, she’ll be talking about the Fool’s Journey and how to take the energy of cards and designs that are hundreds of years old and use it to boost your magic. On tonight's show, we talked about the upcoming class but also talked about working with an entire deck as opposed to just the Major Arcana, how to get started if you're a reader who has never tried to incorporate spells into your readings, the kinds of spells you can perform, choosing a deck to match the type of spell you'd be wanting to do, the basics on getting started using Tarot for spellwork and she pretty much covered all bases.

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