Liz Worth ~ Tarot + Astrology

Were you taught that the tarot’s court cards are always people?

This is how I first learned to look at them, and I know that’s a common experience.

Just last month, I was meeting with a student who said they had just taken a tarot course that taught the court cards are people.

But the problem with seeing the court cards only as people is that it limits what their interpretations can be.

Like the rest of the tarot pack, the courts are multi-dimensional images, not static meanings. Every card in the deck, including the courts, can represent an action, a feeling, a situation, an archetype, an energy, a state of being, or other insight into the question at hand.

I know that sounds like a mouthful: How can any reader keep track of so many possibilities?

But I find that it’s when we allow ourselves to have a lot of possibilities within the cards that our intuition has more of an opportunity to step in. It gives your intuition room to play and connect the dots.

While it can seem easy t...

I am a recovering people pleaser. Growing up, my mom would obsess about what others thought. She assumed the neighbours were always watching, scrutinizing our every move (and every outfit).

They weren’t, but it was hard to change her mind.

Whenever I did something unexpected or out of turn, she would say, “What would people think if they knew you did that?”

She would also overlook her own needs to please everyone around her. Yes, she would secretly complain about it behind closed doors, but in the outside world she was happy to do whatever anyone needed of her.

It was hard not to let those thoughts become ingrained: It took me a long time to undo that kind of thinking.

But going into business for myself forced me to reflect on that kind of upbringing. You can’t do it all, and you quickly realize how many people want a piece of your time, attention, or intellect.

The world of tarot readings and intuitive services is a slippery place all on its own. While you will meet many amazing...

The Devil card has been coming for a lot of my clients so far this year. It’s also been a recurring theme in the workshops I’ve been running, especially around questions about creative and emotional expansion.

It’s particularly common to turn to tarot with these types of questions.

“How can I start saying no more often so that I have more time for myself?”

“How can I make more room for my creative projects, instead of always putting them off to the side?”

“How can I experience more space in my schedule for spontaneity and discovery?”

“How can I start to transition out of my toxic job and into more fulfilling work?”

When the Devil shows up in relation to questions like these, it can feel jarring, especially if the querent (or the reader) isn’t expecting to see the Devil in this instance.

But very often, these questions are rooted in feeling stuck. And that’s when the Devil makes itself known.

“The Devil is in the details,” the saying goes, reminding us that sometimes we find our...

Lately I have been thinking about how important it is to give ourselves something to look forward to, and to continue to focus on pouring energy into things that feel inspiring.

I think that when we all work on putting good into the world – whether that be through your creativity, acts of kindness, spiritual gifts, or anything else that lights you up – it makes a difference in the world. All of these things have a ripple effect.

A couple of years ago, I read Julia Cameron’s book Walking in This World. If you’re familiar with Cameron’s work, she wrote the popular book The Artist’s Way about creative process. Walking in This World is a later title of hers, which talks about how to sustain and maintain your creativity once you’ve gotten started.

In it, Cameron wrote about how important it can be to maintain a creative practice, even when it feels hard and life is busy. Her reasoning is that putting energy into doing something you enjoy gives you energy back.

I needed to hear that when...

I'm curious: Have you ever used ChatGPT or other A.I. apps to learn tarot?

If so, how did it go? 

I ask because I've noticed more mentions of ChatGPT in relation to learning tarot and astrology this season. In 2023, I wrote a blog about whether we should be concerned that A.I. could replace real-life tarot readers and other diviners. At the time, ChatGPT was becoming more commonplace and there were a lot of murmurings in the tarot community about what it might mean for our industry as time goes on. 

People were, and still are, wondering: Will tarot decks with A.I. generated art become the norm? Will tarot illustrators be replaced? 

What if people turn to ChatGPT as an oracle? 

At the time, I wasn't too worried. I'm still not. 

Yes, we have to pay attention to technological advances. Whether we participate in them or not, it's always smart to stay in the know about where innovation is headed.

I've been hearing more and more about Chat GPT being used to create content, or to generate...

Do you ever sit down and reflect on how much has changed since you started making tarot a part of your life?   

When I think back to where I was when I decided to commit to this path, I can’t believe the difference between where I started and where I’ve ended up.  

I used to be searching for something that I couldn’t quite articulate. All I knew was that I had an inner discomfort, an ongoing sense that things weren’t quite what they should be.  

Back then, I had a challenging job in a downtown office. I used to walk to work every day asking, “What am I supposed to be doing?”  

That question led me to a series of readers. I consulted astrologers, cartomancers, psychics, channelers… Slowly, each reading chipped away at my big, nebulous questions:  

“How can I break away from the fears that keep me tied to things I know I don’t want to be doing?”  

“What is the universe trying to tell me?”  

“What am I meant to be doing with my life?”  

When I decided to commit to learning tarot m...

If you’ve had a tarot reading with me, or taken some of my classes, you’ll already know that my go-to tarot technique is the three-card open spread.  

This wasn’t always my go-to technique: I used to swear by positional tarot spreads. The bigger and more complex, the better. I would even make custom spreads for my client work to personalize each session.  

But the more my client base grew, the more I had to adapt my tarot practice. I don’t know what triggered the shift, but it seemed like all of a sudden I was getting more clients coming in with longer lists of questions.  

I often found myself having to think on my feet during each reading, shifting quickly from one question to another, sometimes without any relation between topics my clients wanted to cover.  

It was no longer working for me to create custom spreads in advance: My clients wanted a reader who was adaptable, fluid, and flexible. Going in with one or two big spreads – even if they covered a lot of information – wasn...

Most of my client readings are focused on work or relationships.

I think that’s pretty common for most tarot readers, as those are the topics that people are usually most concerned with.

But every once in a while, I get some really fun – and unusual – questions.

I was reading at an event in a small town a couple hours away. It was nearing the end of the day when a young woman sat across from me said, “I’m not sure if you can tell me this, but is my house haunted? Because I feel like it is but no one will take me seriously when I tell them.”

I had been asked a lot of questions before this, but it was my first haunted house reading.

I shuffled the cards like usual and had my querent pull a few. When I flipped them over, we both peered down at them and paused.

The Seven of Cups, Wheel of Fortune and the Hanged Man stared back at me.

It’s not always easy to navigate such a direct question: Asking “is my house haunted” is essentially a yes or no.

So my interpretation had to centre a...

Ever since the start of the year, I’ve been hearing more and more tarot readers talk about their struggles with imposter complex.

Imposter complex is something that gets all of us at one time or another. No matter how much work you put into your craft, and no matter how much positive feedback you receive on your readings, there will be days when you question whether you’re cut out for this.

One of the things I think is important to do when doubt creeps in is to sit within the awareness of it. Ask yourself: “Why is this feeling coming up? Where might it be coming from?”

Sometimes imposter complex rises up when readers are trying too hard to do something spectacular. That might look like an attempt to make a wild leap of a prediction, or it might come from pressure to impress a querent by knowing something they haven’t revealed.

When we try to force the uncanny, or when we assume we have to perform omniscient feats, doubt is often in the corners, waiting to pounce.

In these instance...

This year I want to roll out a ton of new tarot workshops, while also rebuilding my platform as an author. I have so many ideas I want to share outside of tarot, but I don’t want to let go of either aspect of my work: My writing and my tarot readings have to coexist.  

I have been writing longer than I have been doing anything else, and people have often asked me how I find time to create – especially on top of running a business.  

In all honesty, there is no “hack” or magic secret I can offer. I set my priorities and try to be realistic with myself about what is possible in a single day.  

Learning how to do that has been a process. It has taken me time to learn how to focus my energy and how to set realistic expectations upon myself.  

My natural tendency is to think I can accomplish way more in a day than is possible, and when I do that, I set myself up for failure. And that sends me into disappointment in thinking that I’m chronically behind and never doing enough.

Letting my...