if you're like (rightfully so) Ash, what in the butts am I going to talk to you about for an hour with Tarot, my sessions usually (not always, but usually) go something like:

1/ I need to do a More Real blog post writeup about this once I bone up, but I've been thinking a lot about charging for Tarot readings in certain scenes, and it's super fraught.

I've just opened bookings for the second half of January, through the end of February! Cartomancy sessions with me are an hour long. Come with a particular question or project in mind, or just as you are, and we'll open with a chat to decide what kinds of spreads will suit your needs.

I love when my host Kira Ryberg is joined by the incredible, the beautiful, the generous, the kind Chloe Margherita

Miss Piggy as Benjamina Gunn in Muppet Treasure Island is an avatar of Ariadne. In this essay I w

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

me, on my deathbed: you just lost the game

absolute dream team?!!

In other news, was a treat to chat with @goodsigil.bsky.social about her tarot and magical practice! You can check out her story & our conversation here 🦁https://youtu.be/6B44bScbO_o?si=_n8guxz8ukXAMDtY

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no i will not be explaining myself at this time

she may be in scorpio but at least its a void benini sandwich

It's the article of clothing you put on your feet to stay warm

it’s definitely this, I googled it, I have a source

what's sex?

Let's divine together on your 2026! My December calendar is now open: calendly.com/ashleymcquai...

UX derangement syndrome

when you're a mystical being requiring deep nourishment, you can have pizza any time

i am a mystical being requiring deep nourishment. this is why after an hour of breathing incense and portending the future i whip up some gatdamn bagel bites

I see year-ahead divination as something that supports acceptance, rather than avoidance, but that’s all well and good until I or my clients uncover something we really would rather avoid. So what do we do now the cat's out of the bag? New on the blog. 💕 eightofpentacles.com/blog/frighte...

fun @kiraryberg.bsky.social drinking game: take a shot every time monica lewinsky is mentioned

hope is not foolish, y'all.

once again keen to reconstruct palaeolithic belief systems SMEAR ME WITH RED OCHRE

happy mars is the fUCK OUT OF SCORPIO for those who celebrate (me)

"What if the dying, resurrecting god was not as natural a story as we've been led to believe? What if it didn't so easily echo with "the return of spring"? There seems to be something deeply naive about assuming that the god will resurrect." Sophie Strand The Flowering Wand [1/3]

two year olds are a zen koan

remember to drink your subperiod

explaining to my 2yo she's not eating the muffin man, she's eating the muffin given to her by the muffin man

Seen any good jellies lately?

among other myriad faults this home’s previous owners were afflicted with a mysterious disease causing them to think you can lightly bury commercially compostable flatware randomly in your backyard to make it compost

well! That was some hot garbage

go follow my son @wikimedia-bot.hellbhoy.net NOW

just one spot left for now on Thursday, November 20 🍂

the moon & venus absolutely serving in libra this morning

you asked, and it's HERE! my november calendar for your year-ahead readings! see you soon. 💕 calendly.com/ashleymcquai...

when I am president of the universe, leaving a shopping cart in the lot instead of returning it to a corral will cause you to have an itchy buttcrack for the 24 hour period immediately following

I will require eighty

I’m printing out some Death & the Coffin Tarot spread zines today, you can grab one here if you’d like one too! $5 in the US and $6.50 anywhere else 💕 ko-fi.com/s/b78a6ec6e7

I am legitimately stoked on this episode because it’s the first time I’m venturing beyond astrology and into other divinatory realms for the podcast, which was the vision from the beginning. A big part of the reason for that vision is conversations I’ve had with Ash. Now you get to hear one!!!

all smart, hot people are listening to Ash and Kira talking about death 💅

I am SO excited for y'all to hear me & @kiraryberg.bsky.social on Threads of Fate!! In addition to a fantastic convo on Scorpio, the Death card, & gnosis, I also dig into the visual history of Tarot & where we get the Major Arcana associations in the first place. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS6l...

it always takes me awhile to work on these jewels because I'm reading as I'm designing and mainlining revelations

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starting in on what's going to be my final boss of the "atone for a decade's worth of past owners' neglect"game in my yard - bushes upon vines of barberry and oriental bittersweet wrapped around two 12ft trees of heaven and their vicious sapling offspring - and I am decidedly *not* in a great mood

apparently my alamo as a parent is going to be attempting to get literally everyone and their dog to stop calling yellowjackets bees

trying to keep myself from getting too ahead-of-time-sad about my garden and bumblebees going to sleep for the winter. but it's hard!

IT IS DONE. Thank *fuck*. I read the Kybalion and commented on it so that you don't have to subject yourself to it like I did. Take a look at the rotten fruit of my misbegotten labor, and behold how and why the Kybalion is both not Hermetic and also not worth your time or attention.

God's strongest soldier y'all