Confessions of a Tarot Reader

I'm Bex. I'm here to make Tarot a little less scary. I'm giving you a personal, behind the scenes tour of what it's actually like to be a tarot reader. I compare notes with other esoteric baddies about what we're thinking during a tarot reading, what you can expect as a metaphysical client, and how this whole psychic mediumship thing works in the first place! I'm so glad you're here.

Confessions of a Tarot Reader is a religion podcast hosted by Bex from Bex Tarot London, with 92 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Bex from Bex Tarot London hosts Confessions of a Tarot Reader, a religion show with 92 episodes published.

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  Episode #91

  91. Hannah, Mystic Cryptid

  Sep 25, 202655 minS1

  Connect with Hannah https://mystics-cavern.myshopify.com/ https://www.instagram.com/_midwesterncryptid_ https://www.tiktok.com/@_midwesterncryptid_ About this episode: Hannah from Mystic Cryptid is a tarot reader, spell candle maker, pop-up market organiser, and self-described favourite Midwestern cryptid. She joins Bex for one of the most varied, funniest, and most warmly human conversations in the show's history. What we cover: The second time Hannah had to publicly announce she does not offer topless tarot reading (and what a fake impersonator account sent her cousin). Feeding a fake account's username to her Morrigan candle and taking it to the river How she started organising pop-up mystic markets in the Twin Cities Reading at a vampire ball in Superior, Wisconsin (at a witchy restaurant/oddity shop/bookshop collective) Event reading approaches: the menu method, "what messages have you been missing?", and what to do with first-timers who don't know what they want Bex's ramen shop reading and the man who wanted a philosophical discussion about death instead of cards Getting chased out of the psych ward at Indiana State Sanatorium in broad daylight Where tarot messages come from: higher self, source, and claircognizance that sounds too much like your own voice Developing mediumship: the spirit guide reading she'd never done before, and how it worked anyway The cryptid candle range: Mothman (protection), Bigfoot (strength), Loch Ness (vitality), Siren (glamour), Jackalope (magic and whimsy) The abundance spell that manifested fifty coffee cups Small hands, large oracle cards, and why there is no wrong way to shuffle Grace, internet policing, and why we all need to touch grass Community over competition: how local Minneapolis women business owners are supporting each other through everything Find Hannah: Pop-up markets: Twin Cities area, watch her socials for dates Mystic Market: happening approximately one week before Samhain Mentioned in this episode: Indiana State Sanatorium (paranormal investigation) Ritual Salad and Ritual Marketplace, Superior, Wisconsin Babe of Lilith (Rob) — reader recommended by Hannah Hermit's Lantern MN (Kate) — reader recommended by Hannah House of Zophiel (tarot retreat co-organisers, mentioned by Adrien in a previous episode) The Morrigan Operation Metro Surge (Minneapolis) The Alchemist Oracle deck Like the episode? Leave a review ! Never miss an episode : tap on the Follow or the '+' icon Follow me on IG : https://www.instagram.com/bex_tarot_london/

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  Episode #90

  90. Adrien Mastrosimone - dancing the tarot

  Sep 18, 202655 minS1

  Connect with Adrien https://jupiter-rising.co.uk/venus-retrograde-workshop https://www.adrienmastrosimone.com/dancingthetarot https://www.instagram.com/adrien_mastrosimone About this episode: Adrien Mastrosimone has been reading tarot for over 30 years, buying his first Marseille deck from Grimaud as a young teen. Dancing the Tarot is Adrien's proprietary workshop method, a powerful fusion of tarot reading, systemic family constellation, somatic healing, and physical embodiment. In this episode, he walks us through exactly how it works, what surprised him about it, and why he describes the space he creates not as a safe space, but as a brave space. What we cover: What Dancing the Tarot actually is, and what happens in a session Why some cards are easy to embody (The Empress, The Emperor) and some take the room somewhere else entirely (The Moon, The Hanged Man) The Temperance card exercise: fill a glass with water, pour it into another glass for five minutes, and discover what the card actually means in your body Which card Adrien is working on embodying himself this year, and why His partner: a doctor of experimental physics, published in Nature , who attends tarot café with his own little deck The tarot café Adrien runs in Vienna, and why mathematicians and biologists keep showing up His upcoming retreats: a three-day Alice in Wonderland tarot retreat in Unstone, England, and a planned tarot retreat in Greece in 2027 His talk at Pandemonium: the esoteric coding of gender in the Marseille tarot A new webinar series on retrograde planets with an astrologer collaborator (starting with Venus retrograde) The divide in the esoteric community, and a clear-eyed, hopeful take on where it comes from AI and tarot: where it helps, where it doesn't, and the one thing he tells everyone never to do Growing up as the weird kid in a Sicilian Catholic family in France — and buying his first tarot deck with saved-up change Find Adrien: Website: search Adrien Mastrosimone Instagram: @adrien.mastrosimone Mentioned in this episode: Dancing the Tarot workshops Systemic family constellation The Marseille Tarot (Grimaud edition) Smith-Waite / Rider-Waite-Smith tarot House of Zophiel (retreat co-organizers) Pandemonium conference, UK (September) Venus retrograde webinar (October, with astrologer collaborator) Tarot Culture Conference The lyre — instrument of Apollo, created by Hermes Triboelectric charging ( Nature publication) Kabbalah / Tree of Life Keywords: Dancing the Tarot, Adrien Mastrosimone, embodiment tarot, somatic healing tarot, systemic family constellation, tarot workshop, transpersonal coaching, Marseille tarot, tarot embodiment, tarot retreat Greece, tarot retreat UK, Alice in Wonderland tarot, Pandemonium tarot conference, Venus retrograde webinar, Confessions of a Tarot Reader, tarot and the body Like the episode? Leave a review ! Never miss an episode : tap on the Follow or the '+' icon Follow me on IG : https://www.instagram.com/bex_tarot_london/

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  Episode #89

  89. Stephanie Gilbert - Playdate with the universe, collage tarot deck, eaton fires, play as a spiritual act

  Sep 11, 202647 minS1

  Connect with Stephanie Website: https://playdatewiththeuniverse.com/ Instagram (deck): @playdatewiththeuniverse Instagram (artist): @stephjgilbert TikTok: @steph_gilbert About this episode: Bex discovered and backed a tarot deck on Kickstarter, called Playdate with the Universe. Once she got her hands on the deck she knew she needed to know more about the origin story and talk to the creator of this exquisite deck Stephanie Gilbert. And what a talk they had! Stephanie Gilbert had a bingo card for 2025. One of the squares was to create a tarot deck. Then, on January 7th, the Eaton fire swept through Altadena and she and her husband lost their home, their community, and almost everything they owned. Six months later, something stirred. She picked up scissors, started collaging tarot cards, and posted them on TikTok. The Fool went viral. Stephanie found herself committed to one of the most ambitious creative projects of her life. The result is the Play Date With the Universe, a 78-card hand-collaged tarot deck, sourced from vintage magazines and books spanning the 1920s to the 1990s. What we cover: The bingo card and the fire that changed it all Why she started collaging in 2024. burnout, isolation, depression, and a book called Play by Dr. Stuart Brown How The Fool card went viral on TikTok and locked her in to completing the full 78 cards Creating in public: the vulnerability, the flow state, and what happens when tarot purists have opinions about your Tower card The INNER-GY: Stephanie's original framework in the guidebook — what each card feels like to your inner child A song for every card: how she built a full nostalgic playlist into the deck The monarch butterfly that travels from The Fool to The World — and why she cried when she made The World card Why the Hierophant is just a single key (and why that's perfect) Social media fatigue, playing online, and why she thinks the tide has shifted A podcast-exclusive announcement of her next project Mentioned in this episode: Play by Dr. Stuart Brown The Wild Unknown tarot deck by Kim Krans Kickstarter (where the deck launched) Carl Jung's Bollingen Tower (the inspiration behind Stephanie's Tower card) Alan Watts philosophy videos on YouTube The Eaton fire, Altadena, January 2025 Like the episode? Leave a review ! Never miss an episode : tap on the Follow or the '+' icon Follow me on IG : https://www.instagram.com/bex_tarot_london/

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  Episode #88

  88. Ms Tarochi: TikTok Tarot, the SIANS method, Strokes, and Sliding Doors

  Sep 4, 20261h 5mS1

  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 Like the episode? Leave a review ! Never miss an episode : tap on the Follow or the '+' icon Follow me on IG : https://www.instagram.com/bex_tarot_london/

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  Episode #87

  87. Chris from Elemental Cartomancy

  Aug 20, 20261 hourS1

  Connect with Chris https://www.instagram.com/elementalcartomancy/ https://www.youtube.com/c/elementalcartomancy 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 Like the episode? Leave a review ! Never miss an episode : tap on the Follow or the '+' icon Follow me on IG : https://www.instagram.com/bex_tarot_london/

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