Confessions of a Tarot Reader

About this episode:
Ms Tarochi is one of the most recognisable names in tarot on TikTok.  In this episode, she joins Bex for a wide-ranging conversation about what it actually takes to build a tarot business from scratch, and how tarot became a lifeline during one of the most challenging periods of her life.  Why she created her own proprietary TAROT teaching method and why she wants to make tarot approachable for everyone.
Connect with Tarochi Tarot:
Website: https://www.tarochitarot.com/
TikTok: @tarochitarot
Listener discount: 20% off with BEX20. Note: this is only on masterclasses and bundles not the Tarot in 1 Hour mini course.
Affiliate programme for SIANS: available for spiritual and wellness creators, contact via website for full details.
In this Episode we cover:
The SIANS Method. The first proprietary tarot teaching method, designed to get you reading in under an hour without memorisation or intuition alone
Life as a musician, journalist, and all the steps that led her to where she is today
The coercive relationship that lockdown tarot helped her leave
Her stroke, heart operation, and surgeries, and how she launched a channel amidst the chaos
Why she trademarked her method (and why you should think carefully before putting "tarot" in your business name)
AI and tarot: what she thinks, what her audience thinks, and what neither of them can quite answer yet
Being a TikTok Tarot reader, where the ecosystem is headed
YouTube vs TikTok for creators
The crone era: hormones, wisdom, and finally seeing things clearly
Why she stopped doing personal readings
Politics as a source of inspiration

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Episode Summary:
In this episode of Confessions of a Tarot Reader, host Bex sits down with Chris from Elemental Cartomancy.  Chris is a tarot reader with 30 years of experience who got his first deck (a Rider-Waite) at age eight. Together they nerd out on reading "scary" cards like Death, The Tower, and the 10 of Swords without alarming clients, managing energy during back-to-back market readings, why general readings sometimes produce the most powerful results, and where they land on the AI-generated tarot deck debate. Chris also shares his signature reading style, including using Soul Cards as a Rorschach-style opener and reading for the LGBTQ+ community with the Queer Tarot deck.
Topics Covered:
Chris's origin story: buying his first tarot deck at age eight
Reading "difficult" cards (Death, The Tower, 10 of Swords) with compassion
The Strength card and confidence blocks readers face themselves
Reading at markets: the Celtic Cross, freestyle flow, and 15-minute readings
Energy management and burnout after back-to-back client readings
General readings vs. specific questions.  Does one produce better results?
AI and tarot deck creation: an honest, nuanced conversation
Where tarot "messages" come from spirit guides, psychology, or both
Reading reversals, "jumper" cards, and timing with astrological decanates
Chris's signature style: Soul Cards, deck selection rituals, and the Queer Tarot deck
Getting into professional reading and finding your first market
Guest: Chris, Elemental Cartomancy
Host: Bex, Confessions of a Tarot Reader

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Connect with Brandi
https://www.charmedintuitive.com/about
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In this episode
Brandi Gunn O'Leary — lash artist, tarot reader, and creator of Charmed Makeup, Lashes & Tarot — joins Bex for one of the most chaotic, warm, funny, and genuinely insightful episodes yet. They discover a shared family name within the first minute and spend the rest of the episode co-founding a brand, designing merch, and building what they're now calling the Cousins Coven.
But in between all of that: a real conversation about reading at events (the pre-reading nausea that never goes away, the portal that opens once you start, and why five-minute readings are simply not physically possible), Brandi's journey from lash studio to tarot table, how her incense business started with alcoholism, recovery, and a TikTok, and why she's currently pausing on the term "glamour magic" — and what that pause is actually about.
Plus: AI, art theft, the Great Lakes, Willy Wonka, charm readings, recorded vs. live readings, and a sand timer that neither of them ever remembers to flip.
Topics covered: Charmed Makeup Lashes and Tarot · beauty magic · glamour magic · spell incense · spell oils · tarot at events · reading health questions · AI and tarot · dark moon rituals · egg cleanse · crossroads magic · charm readings · Cousins Coven · Confessions of a Tarot Reader

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Connect with Dave:  https://davezilla.com/
Illustrator, author, and magic worker Dave Zilla joins Confessions of a Tarot Reader to talk about The Feral Path Tarot, a deck built as an homage to real-life esoteric creators like Rachel True and Mat Auryn, each mapped to their own archetype.
In this episode:
The origin story of The Feral Path Tarot and choosing archetypes with real creators
 Lucumí, and the Orisha tradition — Dave's spiritual lineage
AI, ghosts, and why Claude instances keep talking about the soul
Designing tarot for accessibility: braille decks, neurodivergent-friendly symbols
Diversity and representation in modern tarot decks
Where creativity really comes from — muses, brainstorming, and never having creative block

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Connect with Cassandra: https://www.instagram.com/mx.cassandra.snow/
Cassandra Snow, the author, performer, witch, and creator of Queering the Tarot.  Cassandra joins Bex this week to chat about performing at 40 and how doing it scared is still doing it.
They discuss reading tarot as a people skill not just a card skill, why spell substitutions are more personal than any internet substitution list can tell you, and what it practically means to build a rooted, literate witchcraft practice. 
Cassandra shares her three favourite journaling prompts, her hot take on generative AI (spoiler: she's not a fan), and why witchcraft and activism are, fundamentally inseparable.

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