Pick a card, any card. Read a fortune. Or write a story.
(I’m not a believer in the supernatural — you can find my motivation for this page in my tarot tales blog post — but I love tiny pictures and old tales and explorations of the path we think we’re on. Stories spawn stories, and these beautiful cards tell stories that might spawn a few of yours.)
Click on a name to get to a card description; click on an image to get to a page of writing prompts. Through either page, you can navigate to a reading of the card, should you be so inclined.
One day I may condense all this into a series of one-pagers. (It’s a lot right now — but there’s a lot to learn with tarot, and the more you know, the more inspired you’ll be.)
If you write a story based on one of my prompts, I’d love to hear about it!
All images in this gallery are from Tarot Balbi, a Marseilles-inspired deck by artist Domenico Balbi. That was the first tarot deck I bought (while touring Spain in 1989) and it’s the deck I usually read from. (But it’s not the only deck I own or admire — you’ll find images from many other decks in every card post.)
Catherine Austen 