Confessions of a Tarot Reader
I'm Bex. I'm here to make Tarot a little less scary.
I'm giving you a personal, behind the scenes tour of what it's actually like to be a tarot reader.
I share with you what I'm thinking as a reader, what you can expect as a client, and how this whole tarot thing works in the first place!
Confession booth highlights this season:
- Why I refuse to answer Yes/No questions
- When my friends are also my clients, how we maintain boundaries
- My wierdest, woo-woo-est readings
- Chats with fellow tarot readers
- Actual readings
- Toxic clients, toxic readers
- Can I read your mind?
- What I'm thinking when you're back for a reading about your ex
- How you can find an accurate, reliable reader
- How to prepare for your very first tarot reading
- How often is too often for a reading
- How to tap into your own intuition and read for yourself
I'm so glad you're here.
Let's see what the cards have to tell YOU this season.
Confessions of a Tarot Reader
77. Maggie Glennon - cut up your tarot deck! tarot tools and structure, authority and autonomy, creativity and projection
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In this episode...
What if everything you were taught about tarot was actually getting in the way? In this episode of Confessions of a Tarot Reader, host Bex sits down with Maggie Glennon — writer, creative, teacher, and self-described tarot anarchist — for a conversation that quietly gives permission to everyone who has ever felt like they were doing it "wrong".
In this episode, Maggie and Bex explore what happens when you approach the cards from the bottom up rather than top down, why neurodivergence reframes so much of how we engage with tarot tools and structures, and what it actually feels like when something playful starts to attract an audience. They also get into the psychology of tarot — projection, authority, the question of where the messages really come from — and have an honest, funny conversation about which cards they're vibing with and which ones they're fully beefing with.
Highights:
- Why Maggie cut up her tarot deck — and what it unlocked
- Tarot for neurodivergent people: spreads, prompts, and why structure can block connection
- Stepping into the card vs. looking up the meaning
- Using tarot face-up, as fragments, and for mind mapping
- Social media: when playful creation meets an audience
- Reading for others vs. reading with others — a language shift that matters
- Projection as a tarot tool, not a dirty word
- ChatGPT for tarot interpretation: useful thought partner or shortcut past yourself?
- Beefing and being besties with specific cards (Three of Cups, Judgment, the whole Wands suit)
- Three tips for getting your hands dirty with the deck — no book required
- The Hermit and the Hangman fan fiction (yes, really)
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