The Tarot Room – Georgianna

With the Canadian federal election coming up on Monday (April 28th), I was thinking about how we might use Tarot to empower us in our civic engagement, rather than to try to predict a particular outcome.

With that in mind, here are five one or two card spreads meant to help you explore why you vote, what values you hold for the collective, and what kind of future you want to help build.

Try one of them, or all five. Or journal your answers with or without cards. If the questions get you thinking, great. If they encourage any of my fellow Canadians to vote, even better!

Spread #1: Voice & Vision
Card 1: My Voice – What does my voice or vote represent to the greater whole?
Card 2: My Vision – What future am I helping to create and/or shape?

Spread #2: Foundations & Responsibility
Card 1: Where I Stand – What grounds my values, beliefs, and hopes for my country and community?
Card 2: What Can I Do – What action can I take to positively participate and encourage these beliefs, hopes, and values?

Spread #3: Making Change
Card 1: What changes do I want to see and/or help create?
Card 2: What grounded, tangible steps can I take towards these changes?

Spread #4: Answering the Call
Card 1: What particular political and/or societal issue, value, or need is calling me right now?
Card 2: What might I do to answer the call with integrity and responsibility?

Spread #5: What I Bring to the Table
Card 1: What am I bringing to the collective through my participation?

Democracy needs all of us to work. Viva Canada.

In honour of Earth Day … a card from Rachel Pollack‘s The Shining Tribe Tarot … The World, or Shining Woman …

Do you have a favourite Major Arcana Tarot card?

I do. It’s the Star.

Of course, I like the other cards too … how can you not?

I love the Fool’s freedom and sense that anything is possible. I love the Magician’s focus and ability to manifest. I love the High Priestess and the Empress as the powerful feminine archetypes they are, focused on clarity of mind and the creative force.

I love the Emperor’s resolve, and the Hierophant’s moral questioning. I admire the commitment of the Lovers, the steadfast movement forward of the Chariot, and the ideas of fairness and equality that Justice holds dear.

The Hermit is my soul card, and I embrace his search for truth within. I love the Wheel of Fortune as it spins us towards something new, and as a Leo, I especially like the Strength card with its lion’s roar and the maiden’s gentle touch.

I don’t mind swinging with the Hanged Man as he looks for new perspectives, and even the Death card can teach us how to move forward as we transform. Temperance helps balance the contradictions within ourselves, and the Devil can be good for a laugh. The Tower’s a bit a downer, but even it gives us a chance to start fresh.

The Moon helps us explore the dark mysteries, while the Sun shines light on it all and asks us to celebrate. I love them both, and the Judgement card too, as it leads us on towards the unremitting joy of the World card’s spiral dance.

But it’s the Star card that’s closest to my heart. The Star card because it offers hope and healing and the idea that tomorrow is going to be okay regardless of what might have happened today. I love the Star. It’s my favourite Tarot card.

Who needs Tarot cards when you have Predict-A-Pen …

Here’s another picture I’ve redrawn from the Public Domain Image Archives … this time, it’s the Witch’s Cat from a book about witches from 1579.

I know it has nothing to do with Tarot, but from my perspective, witches, cats, cards, anything magical … it all fits at The Tarot Room.

Some of my Motanka Dolls …

My Crystal Ball might not be particularly clear when I ask it a question … my pendulum, on the other hand is very clear, and yes or no inquiries are its bread and butter.

Straight forward as it may be though, I’m not sure I can always trust what it has to say … in fact, when I asked it if I could trust it, it gave me a resounding no. But I’ve come to believe that it’s a good gauge of how I feel about something one way or another, and for that it can be quite useful.

And I just love seeing it swing.

I’ve had my crystal ball now for about twenty-five years or so and have never been able to read with it. Very occasionally ideas spark while I gaze inside (I guess that’s part of what ‘reading’ means when scrying), but I’ve never seen a story play out in the mist like you see in cartoons.

But that doesn’t really matter. I like my crystal ball anyway. It’s round, shiny, and reflective, and feels like something a Tarot reader should have. Of course it has nothing to do with Tarot at all, just a lovely part of the expected decor.

The Tarot Room has joined Bluesky!

I just joined recently and don’t really know what I’m doing, but I’ll be playing around and seeing what’s up.

And of course, my posts are likely to be focused mostly on Tarot … kind of to be expected.

Anyway, if you’re on Bluesky too … come by and say hello! @thetarotroom.bsky.social

My friend Tangelo helping out with a reading using Andrew McGregor’s The Orisha Tarot …