Surprise! Yes, There Are “Bad” Cards in the Tarot

An additional surprise: it just might be all of them. Really, if you can't accept bad news from your tarot deck, what's the point in reading them? Seriously. Love & Light™ Disease is alive and well in the tarot community. It's like these people never want to face anything icky ever and they only want …

Cards I Can’t Fucking Deal With

Everyone seems to have the same few "least favorite" tarot cards: The Tower, 10 of Swords, 3 of Swords, 5 of Anything. Me? I don't mind bad news. What I mind is hideous fucking artwork. Allow me to share with you a few of the abominations that hide among my decks.   I already talked …

Border Cutting is Equivalent to Genital Mutilation

I have a deck with rather thick, stark-white borders. I've seen a lot of people who have trimmed the borders off their decks and they look fucking fabulous. So I googled, "How to trim a goddamn tarot deck." It turns out I don't even have the proper tools or enough energy to do it, but …