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Welcome to Lionel Tarot

A thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground

I am Lionel, a Tarot reader living in Portland, Oregon with over 20 years experience reading Tarot and facilitating supportive and often insightful spiritual conversations. Explore some randomly selected articles from the blog archive below, learn about me and my services, and enjoy your visit!

The Dreamer and the Seeker

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I drew two cards when thinking of a good friend today, the Eight of Cups and the Nine of Swords. The Nine of Swords today feels like the dreamer, always…

Four Practical Tips to Rephrasing over Email

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Recently I decided to apply to the Free Tarot Network to both read more, and to practice readings over email. It is an ATA operated website which provides free, one-card tarot…

The Tower

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Something different and very cool happened today when I was pulling my card. My friend walked in and sat with me while I was with the card, and we began…

Two Basic Steps to Learning Tarot

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Tarot doesn't have to be esoteric or difficult all the time. Through the thick cloud of symbolism and 'authorities', the truth of Tarot is that it is firstly a deck…

Letting Go and the Empress

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A thought about expectation and disappointment: The wisdom of letting go is built into true love. My card today is the Empress, beautiful, feminine and abundant. As a response to…

Three Card Beltane Spread

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This spread has been adapted and published with the Bonefire Tarot deck by talented Gabi Angus-West, check it out! Yesterday was the last day of April, and a warm day…

Readings upon request, no prices, no events, no subscriptions.

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I have retired my Patreon page, so many thanks to all who participated! It was a fun experiment, but it was time to close up shop. Money has never been the point of my Tarot practice, and I found that while some lovely people contributed, the subscription model led to an unequal feeling where people didn’t use their benefits enough to justify accepting their continued payments.

Our society creates countless gaps between our own work – the work of living, being, loving, and becoming – and the meeting of our basic needs, often via jobs and labor that mostly enriches wealthy others more than ourselves or our immediate communities. Even a spiritual practice is not safe from being considered in terms of monetization.

Minding this, I’m removing pricing from this site; I want this side of my life to be about the real work of connecting with one another about things that matter to us. I am also retiring my work with events, as I prefer the intimacy of individual readings. I’ll read for a small group or couple if that is what feels right, let me know.

If you feel drawn to a reading or a less structured spiritual conversation with me, please read my Readings and Lessons page to contact me. I look forward to hearing from you.

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Time for a Change

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Welcome to Lionel Tarot! Thanks for visiting! I've rehabilitated this site, worked out the dust and grime out of the blog's back-end and made the archives a bit more readable.…

Omega Tarot Conference

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I sit in the Salt Lake City airport, waiting to leave for my connecting flight in Detroit. My final destination is the prestigious Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York, to attend…

Tarosophist Magazine: Issue 12

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The new issue of Tarosophist Magazine has recently been released, and I'm proud to say I'm one of the authors! My contribution is 'The Tarot Machine', and talks about an…