Carrie Slayton

(No PhD in Symbolism Required) If you have ever pulled a Page, Knight, Queen, or King and felt your brain quietly leave the room, you are not alone, and you are not bad at tarot. The court cards are the most inconsistently taught part of the deck, in my opinion. Ask five tarot books what the Page of Cups "means" and you'll get five different answers, several of which contradict each other on purpose, apparently. Here's the version that actually works, and it comes down to two questions...

In my last article, I said the cards do not know your future. They are not a crystal ball wearing a clever deck-shaped disguise. They cannot reliably tell you whether the relationship can be revived, whether the job will appear, or whether everything will work out according to the timeline your nervous system has already drafted and color-coded. What tarot can do is reveal the truth of your present. But that raises a larger question: SUBSCRIBE to the Tarot Traveler Substack to read the full...

My “For You” page is certain that I want to know if my soulmate is thinking about me right now. It doesn’t know that I don’t have a soulmate-shaped hole in my life it needs to fill. But it has made the decision regardless, and every third video is some version of “this person cannot stop thinking about you, pick a card to find out who.” I watch these sometimes. Not to judge… okay, a little to judge. But mostly because I’m fascinated by how confidently the internet will tell you what is going...