"Tom's book isn't just a guide to fortune telling as a craft. It's also the real-life story of becoming and unbecoming and becoming a diviner once more, much bolder and truer as a result..." Thomas Witholt, founder of Hermit's Mirrorauthor of the Seaborn Kipper and Tarot Tableau: the Fool's Journey

Well well well. If it isn’t the fruits of my labor. Hey, Sailor. Come here often? #fortuneteller #modernfortunetellersfieldguide #mftfg #tarot #lenormand #bonecasting #preorder #newbook

Look what I just got!! 🤩 Out on October 7 from @crossedcrowbooks.bsky.social, it's the Modern Fortune Teller's Field Guide by one of my favorite #Tarot teachers, @tombenjamintarot.bsky.social (and no, I'm not just saying that because he's a very handsome & smart gay man 👀). The book rocks! 🤘🏻🔥

This place is a cult and we're all trapped on the fuckin' compound gettin' Shelly Miscavaged.

In this week’s #tarot #survivaltip the ancestors say “shhhhh…. Listen…” link in stories. www.tombenjamintarot.com/surviving/we... #divination #tarotblog #taroreading #fortuneteller #roots #ancestor #listen

"The point is: question everything. That's what fortune tellers do. We don't just accept what we're told, we hold it to the light and figure out what's true."

"Happily, most people drawn to divination are also rebels, and as soon as we realize something we've held on to is actually manipulative dogma, we can't wait to toss it into the bin.” #tarot #divination #fortuneteller #tarotwitch #witchboy #preorder #newbook #newtarotbook

“By taking up the mantle of fortune teller, we are aligning ourselves with a traditionally marginalized group. These truth-tellers throughout history suffered at the hands of christo-colonial invaders…. It’s disrespectful not to honor those who came before, who suffered for their art…..”

"When I began reading in the dying embers of the 1990s, the anti-fortune telling view had a powerful hold on the tarot landscape... the effort focused on a symptom, not the disease.…” #tarot #fortuneteller #modernfortuneteller #divination #lenormand #bonecasting #newbook #preorder #crossedcrowbooks

"Fortune telling is a political role simply because fortune tellers thumb our nose at musty power structures. We don't care what anyone believes, what anyone thinks about us, or about anyone's NDAs, gag orders, codes of silence, codes of conduct, or limited world view."#tarot #divination #fortune

"Martin Luther King Jr. was a fortune teller. So, too, were Audre Lorde, bell hooks, and Larry Kramer....Would any have identified that way? Likely not. This didn't stop these folks from saying what they saw—from telling the future, the fortune that could be if only…” #tarot #fortuneteller

“The best system for fortune telling is whatever the hell you want it to be. You could use a deck of Cards Against Humanity phrases if you wanted to. All we need is a system for making it work, and it will work.” #tarot #divination #fortunetelling #fortuneteller #witch #lenormand #bonecasting

New post. The goddesses of all genders teach you how to eat. (It’s not entirely about food; yes it addresses forced famine. Thank you for your pre-attacks.) #tarot #tarotblog #survivingthefall www.tombenjamintarot.com/surviving/we...

…do readings about everything. Every single thing you can think of, do a reading about it—the election, the economy, your neighbor’s creepy son, whether or not the Red Sox will win. Read about all the things and do so gleefully,willfully, and with your boldest middle finger to convention.

I’ll say this: The single advantage that the grand tableau and lenormand have over tarot—from what I can tell in my working life—is that when a client comes back with more questions, I can answer them without a new spread of cards. #lemormand #tarot #fortuneteller #divination #grandtableau

The Modern Fortune Teller’s Field Guide coming 10/7 . “Even when people want advice, when we ask for it, we listen politely…and then we still go off and do whatever the hell it was we were going do already. Advice is kind of a waste of time. But we do react to our reflections, don’t we?”

The Modern Fortune Teller’s Field Guide coming 10/7 . “Even when people want advice, when we ask for it, we listen politely…and then we still go off and do whatever the hell it was we were going do already. Advice is kind of a waste of time. But we do react to our reflections, don’t we?”

#tarot #divination #fortuneteller #tarottalk #tarotsky #witch #witchboy

Etsy overrun by scam artist “readers” using ai to do their work. Fuck you if you do this. #tarot #tarottalk #tarotsky #witch #witchsky #witchtalk #fortuneteller #scam #fraud #ai

Week 2 of the new blog. www.tombenjamintarot.com/surviving/we... Divination and surviving the end of an empire. #tarot #tarottalk #tarotsky #witch #witchsky

New blog! Dramatically shorter posts! Surviving the end of an empire. #tarot #tarottalk #tarotsky #witch #witchboy #witchsky www.tombenjamintarot.com/surviving

Hey @bsky.app — fuck you www.them.us/story/bluesk...

youtu.be/1NbZmvEdrs0?... #stress #healing #reiki #soundhealing #528hz #witchtalk #witchsky #witchboy

It's not the some things don't age well. It's that, if we're actually growing, things that were always unacceptable will suddenly appear that way to healed eyes. You know you're growing when you stop accepting what you never should have to begin with. #heal #tarot #reiki #witch

Talking workhorse tarot decks on YouTube. #tarot #tarottalk #tarotsky Workhorse Decks Past and Prezzie!!!! 🐎🧲 youtu.be/JAlz2PyEG4U

Happy Birthday do the founder of what we know in the world today as Reiki. #reiki #usui #usuireiki

White people love to say we’re not our ancestors, until you want to take down a statue of one of those ancestors whose whole personality was owning other people and sexual assault. But don’t worry… we’ll take an misinterpret your spirituality to justify our fecklessness to show we’re growing.

New post. www.tombenjamintarot.com/the-foolrsqu...

“Your words create your reality.” FALSE. OUR words create your reality. We do it collectively every day. This is another ignorant way we whites willfully misinterpret spiritual tenets. Reality is collective. Individualism lets people exempt themselves from the world. #tarot #witch #reiki

Live now. Tarot+Reiki Experiences www.tombenjamintarot.com/tarotreiki.h...

New video exploring my new tarot+reiki experiences, coming soon! #tarot #tarottalk #tarotsky #reiki Tarot+Reiki Experiences! Intro+Sample reading! youtu.be/VW-C874TpMw

White "americans" are so used to weaponizing our spirituality, and having spirituality weaponized against us, that we are completely desensitized to the damage we cause in spiritual spaces. So much so that I think the first mission of—(1/2) #witchsky #tarotskt #reiki #healing #spirituality

Wrote this for a reiki mag, who found it too “low vibe.” Hurtful. But I knew it would go that way. Still important. Sharing on my blog. #spiritualbypassing #bypassing #healer #heal #tarot #witch www.tombenjamintarot.com/the-foolrsqu...

Is #TheLawOfAttraction just as simple at we attract what we think? Maybe before colonialism, now? Nah fam. www.instagram.com/reel/DL7cfFV...

Trying a new workshop format. Open office hours. You, me, and whoever else wants to play—and any (mostly) #tarot topics that come up. Dates in my Etsy shop. www.etsy.com/listing/4332...

A years come and gone since I started this blog. And it might be time to wind it down. But then it might also be time to introduce a new generation of tarot writers to anyone who wants to click on the damn thing.. #tarot #tarottalk #tarotsky #blog www.tombenjamintarot.com/the-foolrsqu...

Hey! 13 years of annoying all the right people—and somehow still failing to crack 10k subs. 🤣 here’s to—I don’t even know at this point. 🤣 pissinf off the third of the tarot community who doesn’t think I’m a tool? seems like both no time and all and simultaneously like 30 years.

“In a murderous time, the heart breaks and breaks and lives by breaking.” Stanley Kunitz

Turns out if you don’t put chili crisp on salad, you’re not actually eating salad. Who knew? 🤷🏼‍♂️

A thing you may not know about me is that I don’t think #CardMagic is nerdy; I think it’s sexy AF. There’s a gorgeous athleticism to card #magicians ‘ hands that makes me wish I were a deck of cards. 🤣 Anyway, as a tarot reader, cards in general delight me. youtu.be/Ybexh8osteU?...

The older I get the more I think the things we hate about ourselves is where our magic lies. You hate it because the Christo-colonial powers want you to be divorced from the magic. So then the antitiode is— #tarot #tarotsky #tarottalk #witch #witchskt #magic #power

Trying something new. Reacting to my early YouTube videos. First up, my very first post!! 😬😳🫣 #tarot #tarottalk #tarotsky Reacting to my Early Videos (#1 Hamlet) youtu.be/dWsnEEpODF8

God made me a klutz, so I might as well spill the tea. #thatpart

Only way I wanna spend the #solstice anymore #iykyk #witch

Suppose there’s an icy 🥶 institution you want to work on. Return to sender with a mirror box candle. You need cheap craft mirrors and duct tape and white or sliver candle (reflective)…::: #witch #witchcraftispolitical #spell #hex

(Juneteenth should be a day of atonement for us, white people. The real kind. $$$.)

I need a bisexual to explain how bi-monthly means both twice a month and every other month. Only bisexuals can understand such things.

Being a truth-teller does not mean you're always right. It means you're willing to say difficult, unpopular things out loud without being cowed by consequences. Being kind is not being nice. Withholding the truth is nice; telling the truth is kind. #tarot #tarotsky #tarottalk #witch #witchsky

Video demo of the layers technique I mentioned in a post yesterday. #tarottip #tarottalk #tarotsky #fortuneteller #tarot #divination A tarot tip (I stole from Miss Cleo???) youtu.be/pEUkESLvFK0