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Cards

The tarot studio

Rider–Waite–Smith pictures, with room for other decks to disagree.

Three antique card backs, a quartz point, and a candle.

Start with how a reading works and the ethics page if you are new. Then use the draw, or open a suit. Court cards are styles of action, not genders.

Teach

How a reading works

Question, spread, pattern.

Teach

Ethics

Consent, fear, and other people’s lives.

Teach

Spreads

One card, three cards, and a longer cross.

Teach

Journaling

Keep a record you can stand to reread.

Tool

Draw cards

One card or three. Random, local, reversible.

Index

Major arcana

Twenty-two large pictures.

Suit

Wands

Will, work, heat.

Suit

Cups

Feeling, bond, imagination.

Suit

Swords

Thought, conflict, speech.

Suit

Pentacles

Body, money, place.

Colophon

The Wilde Altar is a contemporary, gay-led educational project, written in our own time for study and for the altar at home. For medical, legal, or mental-health care, go to a qualified person.

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Begin

  • The path
  • Principles
  • Agency and consent
  • Devotion
  • Community
  • Ecology

Practice

  • Worship and practice
  • Set an altar
  • Daily devotion
  • Offerings and prayers
  • Open and close
  • Cast a circle

Stories

  • Queer sacred stories
  • How to read them
  • You need no precedent
  • Antinous
  • Dionysus
  • Apollo

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