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    Miscellany,  Tarot studies

    Five ways to use tarot cards that aren’t fortune telling

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    I think that most people think of fortune telling when they think of tarot cards – they equate it with using a crystal ball to predict the future. Heck, this is the way I thought of the tarot for years.…

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    Tarot and Myers-Briggs Personality Indicators

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    Discovering my Myers-Briggs personality type back in 2010 or so rocked my world. I’d only vaguely heard about the MBTI before, and took the assessment as an exercise during a leadership course through work. Learning about my personality type and…

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    Taking a walk with the elements of the tarot

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    We’re still pretty much on isolation lockdown here and the weather has been cold and more like the end of winter than the beginning of spring. Today, though, the sun was shining and I took a long walk along my…

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    Tarot Reading: Advice for parenting a teenager

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    I gave a friend a tarot reading the other day, and thought I’d share it here. She’s got a teenage boy, and had asked for insight on how to balance a tough-love approach with giving him freedom to grow, especially…

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    My fangirl moment over Rachel Pollack, tarot pioneer

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    I have been reading Rachel Pollack’s seminal tarot book, 78 Degrees of Wisdom: A Tarot Journey to Self-Awareness. You don’t have to spend very long in the world of learning tarot before someone recommends this book to you. Written as…

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Hi, thanks for stopping by. I’m DaniGirl, a photographer, storyteller and tarot enthusiast based in Ottawa, Canada. Welcome to my space!

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  • Book review: Holistic Tarot
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  • SWOT: A tarot spread for planning and making decisions
  • Deck review: Steampunk Mini Tarot Deck
  • Tarot suits and Hogwart houses

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    TFW you're reading a new book and your neck is get TFW you're reading a new book and your neck is getting a workout from you nodding along in enthusiastic agreement - that's me reading the first chapter of @bellwen's Holistic Tarot. I often talk about how tarot lets us get outside ourselves, the same way we can when we talk out an issue with a trusted confidant. #quotes #quotesofinstagram #tarotcards #holistictarot #tarotreadersofinstagram #tarotreader #tarot #taroteveryday
    It’s a holiday here in Canada and one of the fir It’s a holiday here in Canada and one of the first truly lovely days of early summer. I was planning a day of kayaking and bicycling and playing in my garden, but I pulled something in my neck and now it won’t stop spasming. So, this is my morning instead. I don’t mind! #holistictarot #tarotstudy #coffeetime #coffeeandtarot #taroteveryday
    Today’s #tarotcardoftheday, courtesy my #steampu Today’s #tarotcardoftheday, courtesy my #steampunktarot mini deck is Judgement. I wish I could remember where I picked up this annotation, but in my notebook under this card I have this question, and I absolutely love it: ‘Do you dare to allow your life to be different?’ What a terrifying, exhilarating question. Well? Do you? #tarotcards #judgement #dailytarot #tarot365 #ottawatarot #tarottribe #tarot
    The SWOT analysis is a tried-and-true business too The SWOT analysis is a tried-and-true business tool to help you consider your Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. It's often used in a corporate context or for product development, but it can be a great tool for personal assessment and decision making. This version leaves the brainstorming to the tarot, giving you a unique insight that you might not have considered with your conscious mind. I've written more about it on the blog (see link in bio). I'd love to know if you use it, and I'd really love to help you work through an analysis to help you on whatever journey you are on. . . . #tarotreadersofinstagram #SWOT #SWOTanalysis #tarotforbusiness #tarotforgrowth #tarot #tarotcards #manotick #ottawa #igersottawa #dailytarot #tarotspread
    It’s definitely an Ace of Pentacles sort of day: It’s definitely an Ace of Pentacles sort of day: spent some time investing in myself and shared my new Facebook page for my tarot project with some friends. Definitely feeling like I rolled a natural 20 today! #dailytarot #tarot365 #tarotreadersofinstagram
    Let's play a #tarotcard game! What message do the Let's play a #tarotcard game! What message do the Major Arcana have for you today? I've pulled the Major Arcana out of my deck and shuffled them, so for example, 7 does not equal the Strength card and 21 does not equal the World card. Choose a number between 1 and 22 and comment with your number below, and I'll reply later today or tomorrow morning with your corresponding message from the Major Arcana. 🙂 . . . #tarotreadersofinstagram #tarotreading #dailytarot #tarot #tarottribe #ottawatarot #myottawa #igersottawa #majorarcana #tarotgame
    I pulled the Magician as my #tarotcard of the day I pulled the Magician as my #tarotcard of the day not too long before I started making dinner, and was amused at pulling such a powerful card on such a mundane sort of day. And as I was pulling together our easy but favourite dinner (tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches) I started thinking about how the simple act of cooking dinner, especially from scratch, is in fact an act of alchemy, and manifestation, and isn’t that magic right there? Plus, feeding hungry teenagers is a powerful act. ;) And that is exactly how I like to view tarot; not as something mystical and otherworldly, but as a source of everyday magic to be integrated into the rhythms of quotidian life. #taroteveryday #themagician #tarotreadersofinstagram #tomatosoup #wfd #whatsfordinner #tarottribe
    Are you a tarot-loving Potterhead? On the blog tod Are you a tarot-loving Potterhead? On the blog today, I wondered whether you could match Harry Potter's Hogwarts houses to the tarot's four suits. IMHO, I think Gryffindor best aligns with wands because of the optimistic love of action and challenges. Slytherin tends to swords energy, mostly because they value knowledge as power to be used for control and personal gain. Easy-going Hufflepuff align with the placid emotional energy of cups. I was a little stuck on how Ravenclaw could be pentacles until I started thinking about Luna Lovegood, our favourite Ravenclaw, and how she sees the magic in the everyday world more clearly than any of the other students, and Rachel Pollack attributes this magic in the everyday world to pentacles. It's even easier to align the various characters with court cards. Harry is definitely an impulsive and impetuous Knight of Swords for me, while studious, ambitious Hermione Granger is the definition of the Page of Pentacles, and emo Ron, lost in his emotions, is clearly a Knight of Cups. I've got more on the blog if you're curious - link is in my bio. What do you think? Are you also a tarot-loving Harry Potter fan? How would you align the suits of tarot and the Hogwarts houses, or attribute the various characters as court cards? #harrypotter #tarot #hogwarts #tarotreadersofinstagram #learntarot #courtcards #tarotribe #ottawatarot #tarotnerds #hogwartshouses #tarotcards #tarotlover
    I was out for a walk along my beloved muse, the Ri I was out for a walk along my beloved muse, the Rideau River, and the perfect reflections of the trees and sky in the water reminded me of the tarot axiom "As Above, So Below." What exactly does that mean, I wondered. I know the Magician evokes it with his arms, and the Hierophant in the way two of his fingers point skyward and two toward earth. But what does it *mean*? So I fell down the rabbit hole that is Google and found out all sorts of neat stuff about Hermetic Principles, and the Principle of Correspondence and some guy named the Thrice-Greatest-Hermes, which pretty much inspired me to be known historically as the Thrice-Greatest-DaniGirl, if not the Second or First greatest. Ahem. So what does "As Above, So Below" actually mean? It means that the macrocosm of the cosmos is reflected in the microcosm of individual experience. And this doesn’t just apply to the manifesting energy of the Magician or even the major arcana; instead, it implies that the entire universe exists within a tarot deck, with each card representing a person, place, or event. As Rachel Pollack explains in 78 Degrees of Wisdom, “The tarot contains a philosophy, an outline of how human consciousness evolves, and a vast compendium of human experience.” Whoa, right? If you're interested in reading more, I have a link to my blog in my bio. This is one of my favourite parts of tarot, though: how it combines history, philosophy, art and spirituality in fascinating ways. #tarothistory #tarotnerd #learntarot #Ottawatarot #tarotreadersofinstagram #tarotcards #asabovesobelow #tarot
    In my latest blog post (see link in my bio), I wri In my latest blog post (see link in my bio), I write about five ways to use tarot that aren't fortune telling or divination. While I have no issue with folks that do use tarot this way, it isn't my style. In the post, I talk about using tarot: - as a prompt for creative writing and storytelling; - for mindfulness; - to amplify the "inner voice" of your intuition; - to help set your intentions and your goals; and, - to create interesting random encounters and NPCs in your D&D game. Okay, so that last one is a little niche, but it just goes to show you that tarot is so much more than fortune-telling, and is basically a key to unlock so many creative parts of yourself. What do you think? What are your favourite non-divination ways to use tarot? Have you come across any really wildly unconventional ways of using the cards? . . . #ottawatarot #taroteveryday #funwithtarot #tarotreadersofinstagram #tarotreader #learntarot #tarotnerd #tarotcommunity #tarottribe
    Yay!! After waiting months for the pre-order, my m Yay!! After waiting months for the pre-order, my mini #SteampunkTarot deck finally arrived. And? They.are.gorgeous! But when they say mini, they really mean mini. These are not the playing card size of the Rider-in-a-tin deck, these are tiny. The Canadian $2 coin shown for reference could easily cover 20 - 25% of the card face. Oh well, I guess that just makes them easier to carry around with me? #tarotcards #newtarotdeck #steampunk #learntarot #ottawatarot #taroteveryday #minitarot #tarotreadersofinstagram
    Are you a fan of Myers-Briggs personality types? A Are you a fan of Myers-Briggs personality types? As soon as I started getting into tarot cards, I felt the same shocking zap of recognition I felt the first time I understood my MBTI. I think tarot can be just as powerful for self-knowledge as the MBTI. And how can it possibly be coincidence that there are 16 court cards and 16 personality types? I wrote about it on my blog if you’d like more info - live link is in my profile or you can copy-paste this if you want to read more. http://danigirl.ca/tarot/2020/04/22/tarot-and-myers-briggs-personality-indicators/ . #ottawatarot #tarotreadersofinstagram #MBTI #myersbriggs #tarotcards
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