Happy November, friends!

I have a new post on my blog to share with you today as I kick off my year-ahead divination season. This can be a beautiful grounding practice, but sometimes, we get stuck with a frustrating burden: a difficult omen that we’ve got to sit around for six, eight, twelve more months to see come to fruition. In Frightening Future Omens, I’m reflecting on how we can respond and why we might even want to put ourselves in this situation in the first place. I’d love to hear your own reflections! Please feel free to hit reply.

My November divination calendar is currently full, but I will be reaching out soon with December availability! In the meantime, I hope you all stay content, cozy, and grounded.

All my love,
Ash

Hello, everyone! I hope the closing of Libra season is finding you well.

It’s been a busy, busy fall over here, with lots of fabulous design clients. I feel I owe everyone a more thoughtful missive asap, but in the meantime I wanted to let you know that my calendar is now open for November divination bookings! My availability as a working mum is tight, but I’m pleased to be able to open some select spots and hope to add some more by the end of the year. Hit reply with any questions!

So many of you have joined me after listening to (or watching!) Death and Scorpio: Do You Guys Ever Think About Dying? on my dear friend Kira Ryberg’s incredible podcast, Threads of Fate! For those who haven’t checked it out yet, Kira and I discuss the association between Scorpio and the Tarot’s Death card, and dig into the visual history of the Tarot and how we get the Major Arcana’s astrological associations in the first place. We also talk about the tension and differences between Mars and Saturn as malefics and the value of interrogating your divinatory symbolism. Catch the episode on YouTube or wherever you listen to your podcasts. I’d love to hear what you think!

I hope you’re staying cozy, and if I don’t meet you before then, I hope you have the happiest of Halloweens.

Tonight I am so excited to share with you Death and the Coffin, and debut the aspect of Eight of Pentacles Press that is possibly most dear to me: physical, magical writing. The essay is available as both a public post and in the mail as a zine.

Briefly explore a philosophy of divining about endings, through the lenses of Tarot, Lenormand, and Nature:

Starting from a place of death instead of a place of transformation does not need to fundamentally change the interpretive outcome of the card, but the acknowledgement of death can provide more divinatory clarity to what comes after it. What is dying? Why? What did it feed on to live? What is going to eat it now?

Read the essay in full on Eight of Pentacles, and order yourself a wee copy from my Ko-fi shop. The physical version unfolds to reveal a zine-exclusive spread to assist you in interpreting the Death card in any Tarot reading.

Happy June, my friends! I’m coming to you from a thunderstorm-soaked Merrimack Valley.

It’s been a long time! I have recently moved my Substack subscribers to my new email provider, Buttondown. I’d love to have you stick along for the ride.

Today I am relaunching eightofpentacles.com, and with it, a project that has been near and dear to my heart for many months: Eight of Pentacles Press. With more details to come soon, my availability will open in mid-July to create beautiful work for lovers, artists, mystics, and makers. In addition to branding and communication design, I have some new divination-related work, fresh from the Press, that I can’t wait to share with you later this month.

My three favorite essays from my former website and Substack blog are available for you in the meantime: