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Tarot Cheat Sheet

The Fool: Beginnings, innocence, spontaneity, free spirit. Reverse: Naivety, foolishness, risk-taking

The Magician: Power, skill, concentration, action, resourcefulness. Reverse: Manipulation, poor planning, latent talents.

The High Priestess: Intuition, higher powers, mystery, subconscious mind. Reverse: Hidden agendas, listen to inner voice.

The Empress: fertility, femininity, beauty, nature, abundance. Reverse: Creative block, dependence.

The Emperor: Authority, father-figure, structure, foundation. Reverse: Domination, excessive control, rigidity, inflexibility.

The Hierophant: Religion, group identification, conformity, tradition, beliefs. Reverse: Restriction, something to shake up routine.

The Lovers: Love, union, relationships, aligned values, choices. Reverse: Disharmony, imbalance, misalignment of values.

The Chariot: Control, willpower, victory, assertion, determination. Reverse: Lack of control and direction, aggression.

Strength: Strength, courage, patience, control, compassion. Reverse: Weakness, Self-doubt, lack of self-discipline.

The Hermit: Soul-searching, introspection, alone, inner guidance. Reverse: Isolation, loneliness, withdrawal.

The Wheel of Fortune: Good luck, karma, life cycles, destiny, a turning point. Reverse: Bad luck, negative external forces, out of control.

Justice: Justice, fairness, truth, cause and effect. Reverse: Unfairness, dishonesty, unaccountability.

The Hanged Man: Restriction, letting go, sacrifice. Reverse: Martyr, indecision, delay.

Death: Endings, beginnings, change, transformation, transition. Reverse: Resistance to change, inability to progress.

Temperance: Balance, moderation, patience, purpose, meaning. Reverse: Imbalance, excess, short term vision.

The Devil: Addiction, sexuality, materialism. Reverse: Detachment, breaking free, reclaimed power.

The Tower: Disaster, upheaval, sudden (brutal) change, revelation. Reverse: Avoidance of disaster, fear of change.

The Star: Hope, spirituality, renewal, inspiration, serenity. Reverse: Lack of faith, despair, discouragement.

The Moon: Illusion, vision, dreaming, fear, anxiety, insecurity, subconsciousness. Reverse: Release of fear, unhappiness, confusion.

The Sun: Fun, warmth, success, positivity, vitality. Reverse: Temporary depression, lack of success.

Judgement: Judgement, rebirth, inner calling, absolution. Reverse: Self doubt, self blindness.

World: Completion, integration, accomplishment, travel. Reverse: Incompletion. Lack of closure.

thebeastpeddler

What kind of fabrics do you use for your beasts?

Faux suede, velour, and minky! In order of preference :)

boudoirduchaman

missladylovelace

deluxenachos

The offering

bodaciousbanshee-deactivated202

Ray and his whole crew can suck my strap-on. He’s no pioneer, he’s a shitty writer and all his crew pioneered was Fluff-bunnyism. I thought this hippy twat was dead already.

thistletongue

What a vile piece of chewed gum. “Real Witches” my glorious, voluptuous, cursing ass.

visardistofelphame

Ah yes. Nothing like watching “popular” authors drag themselves.

orderofthejackolantern

Ugh. I’m disgusted.

swampseer

*ugly cackling*

upthewitchypunx

I had no idea he was still alive, let alone relevant. I just looked him up and apparently he is 81 and living in Ohio and even published books in the century.

Anyone who asserts anything about what “real witches” do can fuck right off.

misterfoghatswildride

True story: About twenty years ago, I wrote him a letter to ask about this passage on the color(s) of ritual robes in Buckland’s Complete Book of Witchcraft:

“Some few Witches do wear black but, while acknowledging it to be a very ‘powerful’ color (in fact a non-color), I personally think that it plays up the misconception of equating Witchcraft with Satanism and, if only for that reason, should be avoided. We are a religion of Nature, so let’s use the colors of Nature … the bright and the sombre earth colors (there is actually very little black to be found in nature).”

I was confused and asked what he meant, as I could name many natural black things. I was incredibly polite, as he was an ELDER (in more ways than one) and all I wanted was some clarification on this idea.

His reply was utterly belittling and said, among other things, that I was too young to be questioning someone as wise and brilliant as him. Oh, and that I should just do what he wrote if I wanted to be a real witch (like him).

Haven’t respected him since.

da-at-ass

Uncle Bucky knows exactly how much of an asshole he is and exactly how much he’s misrepresenting witchcraft and witches, IMO. He says this shit because he’s built his own style of witchcraft up as a brand and thus himself as the only expert on that brand, and if he’s the only valid voice on witchcraft then he can make more money off of his books and speaking engagements, etc. It’s his career to redefine witchcraft to the parameters he can be an expert on so that he can claim he and those he endorses are the sole source of true knowledge on the subject. He’s one of many mages and witches to claim they’re the highest authority on magic and to move the goalposts in witchcraft to line up with only what they teach, it’s a basic formula to gain money and power.

I’m sure he curses and hexes and everything like that, but probably redefines what they’re called so that he can’t be called out for it. He’s among a group who want to brand witchcraft as completely pacifist and non-Satanic because he wants witchcraft to be as inviting for mainstream Barnes and Noble bookbuyers as possible. It’s all about PR and respectability politics for him, all about the buying demographic.

brujxanimist

What I find really funny about all this is that it’s actually kind of an open secret amongst a lot of older initiate Wiccans that Buckland did practice baneful/”black” magic from time to time, he’s just part of a movement (or was, the dude is in his 80s now) that never openly talked about it, and in fact openly discourages it/denigrates it.

Anyways. Whatever. To be honest, what Buckland is saying in that Facebook post is 80% respectability politics that is quite out of touch with what pagan/witchcraft communities are like today. Not to mention Buckland also did write a lot of bullshit stealing/appropriating/being a racist old man with tziganes and romani knowledges, peoples, and stories. Personally I don’t care about his books (never did read them myself, as Wicca isn’t my thing) though I understand they are important to some people. To me, the only thing I really know about him, and care to know about him, is that he acted like a racist white supremacist asshole and now we need to undo a lot of the racist white supremacist anti-tzigane anti-romani assholery that prevails in paganism and witchcraft.

breelandwalker

-casually leaves this here for everyone who’s ever tried to drag me for saying that I don’t like or respect Buckland…because he really is an elitist bag of thieving racist trash-

duskenpath

As a relatively young witch that is still fairly Isolated from the community at large I always love reading these info dumps about famous authors that always gave me the willes!

jeneelestrange

I like the concept of being a witch. Because it grows with you. You can look any way and be any age, and still be a witch. Unlike other jobs and titles for women, you don’t become some sad, old version of a thing upon getting older. You only get better at witchery, and thus that much scarier. There’s no place to go but up. Everything should be like that

junibloom

More aesthetic

elthealchemist

Shoutout to the disabled witches. To the mentally ill witches. To the spoonie witches. To the witches who have physical limitations due to disability. To the witches who have mental limitations due to disability. To the witches who can’t practice their craft regularly because of energy limitations. You are vaild. And you are magickal. And don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.