Connect with Marcella: https://www.marcellakroll.com/
Overview
What does it look like to build a life entirely on your own terms — cards, art, magic, and all? In this episode of Confessions of a Tarot Reader, host Bex sits down with Marcella Kroll: artist, oracle deck creator, tarot mentor, and the person behind the beloved Sacred Symbols Oracle (now in its fourth edition) and the brand-new Initiates Oracle.
Marcella opens up about the creative process — how ideas arrive as quiet nudges that won't go away, why rest and "doing nothing" are essential to any creative practice, and what happens when you stop fighting your life and start trying to actually love it. She also shares the story of retiring from client readings after years at the centre of the tarot world, her 14 years teaching Tarot for Teens at the LA Public Library, and what drew her toward mentorship and group work instead.
Together, Bex and Marcella explore the shifting landscape of the esoteric and tarot community — the rise of social media readers, and why the esoteric space still has a future. They also get honest about AI, human connection, community, authenticity, and the difference between wanting to be a reader and wanting to be famous.
In this episode:
The Sacred Symbols Oracle and the Initiates Oracle — what they are and how they were made
Following creative impulses vs. forcing productivity
Retiring from readings and stepping into mentorship
The esoteric ecosystem: trends, fads, and who sticks around
AI, transparency, and our responsibilities as spiritual practitioners
Getting readings as a seasoned reader (and why Marcella still does it)
Declaring "I want to love my life" — and what comes up when you do
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