What is the point of this blog?

The internet is full of blogs - and a simple search will show you thousands of blogs about Tarot as well.
And they are wonderful things. People's readings, musings, great lessons and concepts. Some readers use their blog to communicate with their clients and future clients, some people blog just to journal.... some people write to be read by others, and some people write to just get the words out.


And this blog for me is about that - getting my tarot words out. If someone else reads them and it inspires them to do the same I will be truly honoured, although I will think they are bonkers at the same time.

So, what brought me to this point?

My Tarot Journey, has been one I have walked for years, years and years. actually about 20 years. As a child I marveled at the occult images of my mothers decks, as a teenager I spent hours and hours reading books, writing meanings and, with the dawn of the Internet I spent even more hours and hours in searching, reading and contributing to tarot forums and tarot groups. I was a living embodiment of the Hermit, learning and growing. With my deck and tarot journal in my bag at school I felt I was a great seeker on an amazing quest - I felt so inspired, so empowered, so immersed in Tarot I could never imagine how life could NOT involve tarot.
As I got older, the honeymoon period ended. The books kept saying the same thing.... the tarot forums kept having the same questions and the same types of people who flood the forums with their heart-felt questions that I couldnt empathise with any more. I got deeper into tarot as part of a magical tool, of the kabbalah and western magical traditions. At one point I even stood up (ok, more forced to stand up) and offer teaching and guidance to new people on their tarot path - and got shot down and humiliated in the process by others who questioned my ability to do so.

And since my early 20s I guess I have been floating in this world where Tarot is important to me and who I am, yet I don't DO tarot. I rarely draw a daily card, I hardly ever read for someone, and yet if people ask me what hobbies and interests I have I say 'Oh I read tarot cards and into spooky stuff like that' (if I can be brave enough to tell people and not fear their responses to such a thing).

Somewhere in my life I went from tarot bright-spark to a broken bulb - and I'm fed up of it! So this blog is a way of me to write down my thoughts, and my processes... and perhaps maybe one day a place for others to realise we can be Struggling Tarotists too, with the only dedication that in doing a bit of tarot every day we can change that, spend time doing the thing we love without criticism or regret and let Tarot transform us by its mystical alchemical process.