The Tails Journal
Card meanings, reading guides, and inspiration for your personalized tarot & oracle decks.
What to Actually Get the Tarot Lover in Your Life (A Reader's Gift Guide)
A working reader's honest guide to gifting the tarot person in your life — from the safe-bet wrap to the showstopper personalized deck. (And no, you don't have to wait to be gifted one.)
An Oracle Deck as a Memorial: Keeping a Loved One Close
A memorial reading isn't about contacting the dead — it's about keeping company with the ones we've lost. A practitioner on using an oracle deck to hold grief, remember a loved one (or a beloved pet), and keep the conversation going.
A Deck for Two: Reading Tarot With Your Partner (and Three Spreads to Try Tonight)
Reading tarot as a couple isn't about whether you'll last — it's about finally talking. Here are three spreads to try together tonight, plus the ground rules that keep it kind.
How to Read Oracle Cards: A Practitioner's Honest Guide
There's no wrong way to read an oracle deck — but there are habits that make readings sharper. A nine-year practitioner shares how she actually pulls and interprets cards, and why a personal deck changes everything.
Seven Tarot Myths I've Had to Unlearn (Including the One About Gifting)
Most tarot "rules" are younger than I am and nobody can source them. Here are seven I've had to unlearn — starting with the big one about decks having to be gifted.