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Welcome to Your Western Arcana Guide

You’re here because you scanned the QR code in your deck—welcome. This is your complete digital companion for working with these cards.

This guide replaces the traditional printed booklet. It’s designed to be returned to, expanded, and lived with—not skimmed once and shelved. Bookmark it. Come back to it over time. And don’t be surprised if it changes. This is a living document—an ongoing conversation about tarot, practice, and life.

 

What you'll find here:

  • Meanings for all 78 cards organized by suit
  • Spreads designed for deeper readings
  • Background ambiance to enhance your practice
  • Connections to other decks and learning resources

Scroll down to explore the cards, or jump directly to: Major Arcana | Cups | Wands | Swords | Pentacles 

One Simple Thing That Makes Every Reading Better

 

This isn’t just a deck you shuffle—it’s a space you inhabit. A practice you build. A conversation that deepens over time.

That’s why I created the Tarot Meditation Rooms: a free resource to help you attune to your deck and your own intuition. These three-hour ambient videos use binaural beats and richly layered soundscapes to create immersive environments for reading and reflection. No talking. No distractions. Just focused space—where intuition actually has room to speak.

Put one on. Light a candle. Settle into your reading space as if it matters—because it does. You’re not just pulling cards. You’re building a relationship with your own knowing. 

Watch the Tarot Meditation Rooms on YouTube - Free →

If you prefer guided sessions in these same atmospheric spaces, the Substack community offers voice-led meditations designed to take you deeper into the cards and your intuitive process.

Join the Substack meditation community →

And if you're hungry for tarot education—card breakdowns, spread tutorials, and symbolic deep dives—our YouTube channel has you covered.

Explore the full tarot teaching library →

You’re not doing this alone. You’re stepping into a practice that’s centuries old and a community that’s very much alive. Welcome.

Spreads to Deepen Your Practice

Reading single cards is like learning vocabulary—useful, but limited. Spreads turn individual cards into sentences, paragraphs, full conversations. They create relationships between the cards, showing you how energies interact, where tensions live, what's supporting or blocking you.

A three-card spread might show you past-present-future. The Celtic Cross gives you a full narrative arc with obstacles, hopes, outcomes, and hidden influences. Each position in a spread asks a specific question, and the cards answer in context with each other.

This is where tarot gets really interesting—when the cards start talking to each other instead of just talking to you.

Start with the Celtic Cross - the classic 10-card spread that works for almost any complex question:

Explore more spreads:

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The Lovers Upright Reversed
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Strength Upright Reversed
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The Hanged Man Upright Reversed
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The Moon Upright Reversed
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A Few More Decks to Explore once you have a handle on the Eastern Arcana

 

Whispers of Rumi Oracle Deck

 

If the philosophical depth of Eastern Arcana spoke to you, Rumi's mystical poetry will feel like coming home.

This oracle deck moves differently than tarot—no rigid structure, no prescribed positions. Just Rumi's transcendent wisdom rendered in art that honors the Sufi tradition of seeking divine truth through beauty, longing, and surrender.

Oracle cards work through resonance rather than system. You pull what you need when you need it. Rumi's poetry has been doing exactly that for 800 years—speaking directly to the ache in your chest, the question you haven't voiced, the truth you already know but needed permission to acknowledge.

If you're drawn to contemplative practice and mystical philosophy, this deck offers companionship on the pathless path.

Available now as digital download.

or get the Physical Eastern Arcana Deck here.

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Download Rumi Oracle now

3D Astrology — The Cosmic Dinner Party

3D Astrology — The Cosmic Dinner Party  Want to go deeper into the symbols and signs you're seeing in tarot?

Astrology is your first stop—and this deck makes it a snap to learn.  

Tarot and astrology speak the same symbolic language. The Major Arcana maps to zodiac signs. The court cards embody planetary energies. Understanding astrology doesn't just enhance your tarot readings—it unlocks an entire layer of meaning you've been missing.  

This deck teaches you astrology through personality, wit, and cosmic gossip instead of dry charts and math.

With zodiac portraits, planetary wisdom, and a whisper of social intrigue, it's the ultimate companion for parties, parlors, and polite matchmaking mischief.  In fact, if you love gossip and parties, this might be the perfect deck for you.  

Available as digital download. Physical deck in the works.

Download Celestial Arcana now

Eastern Arcana — Tarot Through Five Eastern Art Traditions

The same 78 archetypes you know. Five completely different cultural lenses.

This deck renders the traditional tarot structure through Ukiyo-e woodblock, Mughal miniature painting, Chinese brush work, Tibetan thangka, and Japanese sumi-e. Each tradition brings its own visual philosophy to the cards while keeping the archetypal meanings intact.

The result? Readings that feel fresh instead of automatic. You can't go on autopilot when the imagery surprises you. You actually *see* the cards again.

Museum-quality artwork. Premium cardstock. QR code access to complete digital guide with meanings, spreads, and meditation resources.

Available as down load or a physical deck from the print on demand shop

 

Download Western Arcana now

Southern Arcana — Stories Carved in Smoke

You've seen tarot through Eastern art and European tradition. Now see it through the eyes of people rewriting their own story.

  Each art style brings a particular nuance to the archetypes. This one speaks in concert poster boldness—the aesthetic of resistance, longing for freedom, and the constraints of agreed-upon unpleasantries.

These cards hold the tension between sweet tea manners and the sharp truth underneath.  

When you see the Edmund Pettus Bridge in this deck, you're not just seeing Southern imagery. You're seeing the archetype of crossing over—facing what wants to stop you, claiming what's always been yours, rewriting the narrative they tried to write for you.  

**If you are working on reclaiming your true self and willing to look in a mirror to do so, this deck may be for you.**

Available as digital download. Physical deck coming soon.

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Go Deeper: Courses That Transform Your Practice

 

Zero to Zodiac — A Sacred Synthesis of Eastern Astrology and Western Tarot

You just experienced how Eastern and Western traditions speak the same archetypal language through different visual forms. Now take that understanding deeper.

  This course decodes your cosmic blueprint through the lens of the Chinese Zodiac—twelve animals, five elements, a system that's guided lives for thousands of years. But we're not just teaching you astrology trivia. We're showing you how your personal cycles work, where your power lives, what your soul came here to do.

 Tarot gives you the map. Astrology shows you the territory.

Together, they reveal patterns you've been living unconsciously—and hand you the tools to navigate them with intention.

 If Eastern Arcana spoke to you, this course is your next initiation.

 

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Tarot for Creatives — Turn Blocks Into Breakthroughs

If you're drawn to tarot for its visual depth and symbolic richness, chances are you're creative—and you know what it feels like when the well runs dry.  

This course teaches you to use tarot as a storytelling tool, a muse, and a mirror for your inner world. Not just "what does this card mean" but "what does this card unlock in MY work?"

We're talking spreads designed specifically for creative flow, prompts that bypass your inner critic, rituals that reconnect you to inspiration when you've forgotten where you left it.  

Artists, writers, and soul-led entrepreneurs use this system to turn creative blocks into breakthrough moments and discover their authentic artistic voice.  

The cards already speak in metaphor and symbol. Let them speak YOUR language.

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Sacred Union Bundle — Access Everything

 You already know this isn't just about buying a deck or taking a course. You're building a practice. Creating a relationship with these tools that deepens over time.  

The Sacred Union Bundle gives you access to the entire Tarot-Guru library in one move. Every course—Love, Money, Creativity, Self-Care, and Zero to Zodiac.

Plus bonus journals, advanced spreads, and resources we add as we build.  

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The whole path for seekers ready to embrace it all.  This is for people who don't want to wonder "should I get that too?" You want in. You want everything. Here it is.

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