Frequently Asked Questions

General questions

Can I please have a free tarot reading?

Probably not. Completing a reading takes time and energy, so I generally don’t provide free personalized tarot readings. However, I do offer free general readings on Instagram and Tiktok through my collective message readings on Mondays or as pick-a-card and screenshot readings. Followers might also find sporadic opportunities on through my Instagram, Facebook, or Tiktok stories and/or YouTube shorts to get a quick mini reading (3-cards or less regarding one question or general area of your life) during a 24-hour window of time.

Can you predict the future?

The short answer is no, because I don’t think the future is set in stone. That said, I like to think of everyone as having hidden depths of knowledge that we can access for personal development and awareness. This includes the ability to analyze the trajectory of current events based on what we already know about the past and present. I can’t guarantee that something will happen, but I can help you anticipate likely outcomes.

Are you psychic?

I don’t think I am. I can’t read someone’s mind, but I can usually get a general sense of what people are thinking or feeling. In fact, most people can do this: you may call this intuition as I do, or you can consider it a form of social awareness if intuition feels too unfamiliar to you.

I sometimes feel a call to say certain things during readings, when I will see, hear, or just know something that I couldn’t rationally know in any other way. Where this comes from, I have no idea — some people call upon their spirit guides, others call upon the universe. I believe everything is interconnected and interdependent as we are all made of energy. These things I’m called to say are rarely necessary for a good reading, and I don’t guarantee that they will come up. But they happen enough with enough strange specificity that I no longer doubt whether they are psychic experiences.

Why did you say a card means ‘this,’ when my friends / a website says it means ‘that’?

Tarot cards are symbolic, which means that they have multiple, sometimes competing meanings, and they all have associations that can trigger insights beyond what was intended by their creator. In the years and years that I’ve been reading, I’ve developed some idiosyncratic meanings for particular cards that pop up time and again for me as a reader, but I also often pick up on visual cues in a card that result in new interpretations.

How do you decide which deck to use?

Any deck can be used for any question, which is why I let the client pick a deck if they like one more than another. If it’s “reader’s choice” (i.e., my choice), I will usually be drawn to a deck for one of two reasons: 1) I find that I can read answers to certain types of questions better with one deck than with another; or 2) I feel “connected” with that deck, usually because of my mood and its vibe. On rarer occasions, something in the client’s responses to my form will trigger the decision to use a different deck than I might normally pick.

Do you read reversals?

It depends on the deck and the question. Some decks usually benefit from seeing reversed positions, and some usually don’t. I don’t have a hard and fast rule about when I will use them and when I won’t; I decide when I’m shuffling the deck and asking the card the question(s) I want them to answer.

Can you answer a different question?

I can try! You can contact me using my contact page.

About my paid readings

What do I actually get in a private reading with you?

For live readings:

You get a live reading by video, phone, or an in-person appointment with me. Afterwards, I will email either a recording of the video reading or a very brief summary (think bullet point highlights) of the reading if conducted over the phone.

For delivered written readings:

I send an email to the email address provided that includes a picture of the cards I’ve drawn for the reading, the question(s) asked along with which card(s) were drawn for each question, an overall interpretation of the reading as it relates to the question(s), and, if there are multiple cards, an interpretation of each card and how each card interacts with other cards or contributes to the overall reading. The length of the interpretations can vary from one page (250–300 words) to many pages, depending on the complexity of the question(s) and the type of reading, and the cost of said reading.

For delivered video readings:

I send an email to the email address provided with a link to your recorded video reading, a picture of the cards and a very brief written summary (think bullet point highlights) of the reading. Your custom recorded video link will show me shuffling and then pulling your cards, and then talking you through the interpretation of each card and how each card interacts with other cards or contributes to the overall reading. The length of delivered video readings and the amount of detail I include will vary according to type of reading and cost of said reading.

Why do I have to provide so much information when booking a reading with you?

When you request a reading, I ask for information that will help me help you. You only have to provide the basics (name, question, contact info), and then you can choose to provide more information that you think is relevant if you want to. It’s not because I want to tell you what you want to hear; it’s because I want to tell you what will be useful for you to hear. The more relevant information you provide, the more I can take that into consideration when explaining what I read in the cards I’ve drawn for you. If, for example, you ask me how you can reconnect with your ex, but you don’t mention the fact that this person is no longer alive, I’m clearly going to have a hard time giving you guidance that you can use effectively.