On Reading Tarot in Seasons of Grief

Grief changes how we read. Every card can look like bad news. Celeste's advice is to slow down and ask smaller questions.

Questions that help

• “What do I need today?”
• “What would they want me to remember?”
• “Where can I find support this week?”

Questions to set aside

Avoid asking whether you could have prevented a loss. The cards are not a courtroom.

A one-card practice

1. Light a candle for the person you lost.
2. Draw a single card each morning for a week.
3. Write one line about it. At the end of the week, read the lines together.

If the cards feel too much, put them away. Rest is also an answer. And please lean on people, too — a friend, a counsellor, a grief group.

When you want Celeste to do the work

Everything above is yours to practise at home. If you would rather have Celeste prepare the work for you, you can book a gentle reading with Celeste — composed by hand at her table in New Orleans and delivered privately as a PDF to your email. Visit Celeste's shop.

Not sure what a card means? Look it up in our tarot card meanings guide, with upright and reversed meanings for all 78 cards.