Before you read this, caveat lector: I am feeling rather silly today. I am sitting in my apartment in pajama bottoms and a sweatshirt, eating Greek yoghurt out of the carton and spinning around in my chair lip synching Taylor Swift’s newest single. And as I sit here in this strange world-between-the-worlds, it seems to me that the following blog post is a good idea. Tomorrow, in the cold light of day, it may prove to have been exactly the opposite.

Tarot is many beautiful, powerful, terrible things. It’s a trick-taking card game for gambling nobles developed in late medieval Italy. It’s a symbolic compendium of the great archetypes of the human soul. It’s a spiritual guide, a divinatory tool, an astrological calendar, and (for some people) a way to connect with deities or the spirits of the dead. All of these things are deeply meaningful and poetic.

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I wanna talk today about speaking your truth with love. Sometimes, it’s really difficult to get up the courage to say something you know might not go over well with the person you need to address it with. Sometimes, it’s just difficult to say anything period because we’re taught not to confront people or rock the boat. All of the time, it’s an important thing to do so that we teach people how to treat us and we learn how to stand up for ourselves. Most importantly, it allows us to be vulnerable so we can change the relationships for the better. There’s gonna be times where the other person doesn’t want to hear what you have to say–those times make us wish we never said anything, but that’s the EXACT moment when you should. No one, I repeat, NO ONE likes to look at themselves; but if you…