*Bonus Post* A Tarot Reading for Tattooing

In the spirit of eclipse season

[Image: a tarot spread of cards from the Neo Tarot against a paint-stained wood floor. At the top in “past, present, future” order are Temperance, the six of wands, and the six of cups reversed. At the bottom demonstrating our way forward and challenges are the Moon reversed, the Page of swords crossing it, and Strength.]

It wasn’t until I saw Empress Karen Rose’s post yesterday that I had any idea we were going into an eclipse season. The last time I pulled a spread of tarot cards for tattooing as an industry it was 2020, Oliver Peck had just been rightfully booted from TV for multiple instances of bl*ckf*ce, multiple serial abusers in the field were being publicly called out, and people were losing their shit about Everence. It’s an understatement to say it was big Tower energy, and I turned to tarot to gain some insight on what it all meant in the moment and in the larger picture.