“ Tarot isn’t about memorizing meanings. It’s about building a relationship - with the cards, and with yourself.” - Claire Lily

Why I want to teach Tarot... and what I wish someone had taught me sooner!

I had my first tarot reading in 1987.

There was a lot going on in my life at the time. The reader picked up on specific things she couldn’t possibly have known.

It wasn’t about prediction. It was about clarity in real time.

I didn’t know it at the time, but that experience was my introduction to intuitive tarot reading.

While tarot was often associated with predicting the future, what I encountered felt different. It wasn’t about what might happen next. It was about understanding what was already happening.

How did a deck of cards help me?

At 21, life felt heavy. I won’t go into the details, but it was the start of a long period where I felt disconnected and unable to talk about what I was experiencing.

I needed someone steady.
Someone who didn’t know me.
Someone who would listen without judgement.

I found a reader who did exactly that.

She didn’t tell me what would happen. She didn’t make wild declarations. She simply held space, asked thoughtful questions, and helped me see there was still a path forward.

That’s when I started reading the cards for myself.

It wasn’t that the cards predicted my future or told me what to do. It was simpler, and far more powerful than that.

For the first time in a long time, I felt heard.

The cards gave me language for things I hadn’t been able to name. They gave me space to look at what was happening inside me instead of simply pushing through.

As I learned more, I noticed a pattern. So many people felt drawn to tarot but were being held back by the same things: the pressure to memorize 78 meanings, the fear of getting it “wrong,” the belief that tarot is too mystical or complicated for everyday life.

I felt that too. I spent years with guidebooks that left me confused rather than clear.

What unlocked tarot for me wasn’t a better book.

It was realizing that:

Tarot is a tool for your intuition, not a test of it.

The meaning of a card isn’t something you retrieve from a list. It’s something you discover in dialogue with yourself.

And that changes everything.

I didn’t arrive at that understanding by accident.

Over the years, I’ve invested deeply in learning tarot. I’ve taken courses, worked with experienced mentors (and still do), and studied the foundations that sit beneath the imagery like structure, ethics, numerology, elements.

I’ve questioned interpretations that didn’t resonate and deepened the ones that did.

That process didn’t make tarot more complicated.

It made it clearer.

And that’s why I want to teach.

Not to give you 78 meanings to memorize, but to give you a framework you can actually think with.

What I want for you!

Whether you’re brand new, or you’ve had a deck sitting in a drawer for years, I want tarot to feel accessible. Practical. Something you can use on a Tuesday morning when you’re making a decision, or on a quiet Sunday when you simply want to check in.

Not something to perform.
Not something to fear getting wrong.
Not something reserved for the “gifted.”

Something that belongs and speaks to you.

This blog is where I’ll share practical guidance, card explorations, and honest conversations about bringing tarot into everyday life.

I'd love for it to become a space you return to.

Ready to start?

If you’re done with endlessly flicking through guidebooks and second-guessing yourself, I’ve created something for you.

My free guide, Tarot Beyond the Guidebook, walks you through the exact five-step process I use to read any card, from any deck, confidently. It’s the method I wish I’d had at the very beginning.

Download the guide here

Stay Magical!

With love,

Claire xo