The Emperor and Me

June 3, 2025 by Big Bearded Bookseller | Leave a comment

The Emperor

Today’s single card draw was The Emperor, in yesterday’s single draw card I drew The Emperor, I also drew it 3 days ago and it was also my daily draw yesterday morning. The draws were all made on the same deck, the Sacred Rose Tarot which I’ve had since the early 80s and was my second deck.

So it knows me and I know it.

It made me wonder why there has been such a cluster of one of the Major Arcana in such a short period and I’ve been thinking all day on this.

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking on all the projects I’m involved with right now and wondering if they are ‘worth it’, if there is any value in it and why am I doing these projects.

The other part of this thinking is that who wants to hear what I have to say in all these areas and am I fooling myself in putting myself out there.

Yes, The Emperor talks about the ambition I have for my projects, about my ability to plan and organise, but most of all I feel that what these regular visits are trying to tell me is to put away my negative and worried thoughts and step up to the plate and believe in my ability to achieve using the skills and knowledge I’ve built over the years.

To do this I have to set clear goals, set priorities, and plan out what I need to do to achieve forward movement in. these project, and again, believe in myself.

(and I’ve just realised that The Emperor is also my birth card)

Tarot and Me

June 1, 2025 by Big Bearded Bookseller | Leave a comment

Three Hares

My time with tarot started in the early 80s in a Goth-phase when someone bought me the Thoth deck for my 18th birthday, I liked it but it never really seemed to fit.

Three years later I was reading tarot on The Mound during the Edinburgh Festival using the Thoth deck when a friend came with a new deck and told me that she felt this was much more me. This was the Sacred Rose Tarot and I’ve used this deck on and off since 1985 now and I feel a really good, deep connection with it.

During that period I was also reading palms, runes, astrology charts, and I-Ching, though over the years I’ve only really kept on the tarot as it seemed the most popular with family, friends, and the occasional client.

I’ve been using The Sacred Rose Tarot deck for over 38 years now and feel I really know it but I wanted to experiment with a few other decks and we all know how that goes… let’s start a new collection!

I’ll be writing about returning to my old witchy ways and exploring this pathway, there will be bits about everything that comes across my mind but it will mainly be tarot. There will be readings, explorations of different decks, book and deck reviews, and more.

First thing I’ll be doing is collecting old posts from other blogs and getting these all set up here.

You can also commission me for a reading on Ko-Fi, and watch here and my Bluesky for when I do a single card draw for myself.