Tarot with Gord

Tarot with Gord You've had the deck for ages and still feel like a beginner. That stops here. No fortune telling, no fluff, no figuring it out alone. (I can also read for you!)

I teach you to actually read tarot, your way, with weekly sessions and people who get it. You've had the deck for ages and you still feel like a beginner. That's the entire reason Simply Tarot exists. I teach people to actually read tarot, properly, in their own voice, not hand you a script of memorised meanings and hope for the best. The Course is where that starts. Level 1 gets you reading for yourself, Level 2 takes you into reading for other people, ethically, with enough grounding to trust what you're actually seeing. Each level runs six weeks, online on Zoom or in person here in Manchester. Once you can read, the real question is whether you keep doing it. That's what the Membership's for. Weekly Circle every Sunday, a room full of people who take the cards as seriously as you do, plus the full card library, every spread workbook, and somewhere to keep track of your practice instead of losing it in your head. You stop reading alone. That's the whole pitch. And yeah, I still do readings myself. We don't really use spreads, only if you specifically ask for one, and even then it's rare. It's mostly a straight conversation with the cards about whatever you actually bring that day. I don't predict futures. I help you see your present clearly enough to actually do something with it. We start every session with a short grounding meditation, nothing heavy, just a minute to land before we get into it. It doesn't matter if you've never touched a deck or you've been reading for years. It doesn't matter what you believe. If you're curious and willing to look at what's actually in front of you, there's a place for you here. I read from my place in Salford, or on Zoom worldwide. Get in touch if you've got questions. I'm always happy to talk it through before you book anything.

29/09/2026

Comment BUILD and I’ll send you the details for my free workshop on Sunday 18 October, where we practise exactly this.

How do you actually remember what tarot cards mean?

Next time you pull one, before you touch the book:

- Say out loud what you see: what they’re doing, what they’re holding, where they are
- Say what you think it might mean, even if it feels like bo****ks
- Then check the book and compare
- Notice what matched and what you missed

So take the High Priestess.

You might say: they’re sat dead still between two pillars, one black and one white. There’s a scroll half hidden under their robe, and a curtain behind them you can’t see past. It feels like something’s being kept back.

Then you open the book, and it talks about hidden knowledge, the unknown, and sitting with mystery rather than forcing an answer.

You’d already noticed most of that yourself, so now the meaning’s got something to hang on to. Having a go first can help it stick, even when your first go is wrong.

We’re doing exactly this in small groups at my free workshop, How to Build a Relationship with the Cards, on Sunday 18 October, and there’s a replay if you can’t make it live.

Six cards, but only one reading.Linda Carter from EastEnders is secretly seeing Max Branning again, and she's not sure s...
27/09/2026

Six cards, but only one reading.

Linda Carter from EastEnders is secretly seeing Max Branning again, and she's not sure she should be. So I pulled six cards on it, three and then three more underneath, and I didn't read them in order.

The Nine of Pentacles only made sense once Death landed next to it. The Nine of Cups mattered because of where it sat, right under Death. And the Ace kept pulling me back.

Knowing what each card means is where it starts. Building one reading out of six is the bit people get stuck on.

Should she keep seeing him? Only Linda can answer that. Which connection between the cards did you spot first?

Comment COURSE and I'll send you the details for Simply Tarot Course, because putting the cards together is exactly what it teaches.

25/09/2026

How to cleanse your tarot cards 🌕

- Smoke
- Essential oils
- Crystals
- Sound
- The full moon

Number 5 is for when your deck’s really been through it.

Which one are you trying tonight?

I read tarot, but I don't really subscribe to a lot of the bo****ks that comes along with spirituality. When I started I...
24/09/2026

I read tarot, but I don't really subscribe to a lot of the bo****ks that comes along with spirituality. When I started I copied what other readers did, and the more I read for actual people, the more of it I dropped.

Every reading I do starts the same way. I tell people I can't tell them what's going to happen, I won't sugarcoat it, and if something I say doesn't make sense they should tell me, because my ego can handle it. Same goes if I get their pronouns wrong.

I'm not going to tell you what happens in six months, because I don't know. What you walk out with is your read of where you are, and the decision that comes after it is yours.

A lot of what people bring is messier than any spread can hold, so I pull in threes and follow what comes up. If you do want a spread, tell me when you book and we'll use it.

The deck on my table is the Fifth Spirit Tarot, created by Charlie Claire Burgess (The Word Witch Tarot), who's trans/non-binary like me. I teach with Rider-Waite-Smith because the edition of the Fifth Spirit I've got isn't in print any more, and not everyone's going to vibe with it.

No medical or legal readings, and nobody gets read about unless they've agreed to it. You don't need to believe what I believe, or even believe in tarot, for a reading to be useful.

Readings run from 15 minutes to an hour, in person in Salford or over Zoom wherever you are. Comment README and I'll send you the link, or book here: https://tarotwithgord.com/tarot/

23/09/2026

How to read the court cards in tarot without memorising 16 separate meanings:

Page = groundwork
Knight = ignition
Queen = connection
King = understanding

So take a love question.

Page: you’ve only just started talking and you’re seeing where it goes.
Knight: you’ve fallen hard and you’re texting them at 2am.
Queen: you know how you feel about them, deep down.
King: you understand it well enough to say exactly why this works for you, or why it doesn’t.

Same four words, just a different question. The rank gives you somewhere to start, then the suit tells you which part of the situation you’re dealing with.

And if the bit you struggle with is saying your interpretations out loud, that’s what we practise in Simply Tarot Circle.

Comment CIRCLE and I’ll send you your first three Sundays free.

Every time I post about tarot’s history, somebody turns up in the comments absolutely certain that it’s a lost Egyptian ...
19/09/2026

Every time I post about tarot’s history, somebody turns up in the comments absolutely certain that it’s a lost Egyptian holy book. Ask where they got that and it’s the little white booklet that came with the deck, or a teacher, or a shop. Nobody asks where the booklet got it.

The whole thing traces back to one French pastor in 1781 and a deck on a friend’s table. He had no evidence, and he couldn’t read a word of the language he was claiming to know. Everything since is people repeating him, selling him, and drawing him into the pictures.

What winds me up is that there IS an Egypt in tarot’s story, and the people making the claim never mention it. Playing cards seem to have reached Europe through medieval Egypt, the Mamluk sultanate, in the 1300s. Same four suit families your deck has now. That’s real, it’s documented, and it’s over a thousand years too late for pharaohs and priests.

And the reason tarot fits Egypt so well is the same reason it fits the Kabbalah, the Bible, the Enneagram and Jung. People everywhere keep running into the same handful of situations. Tarot didn’t come from any of them. The patterns are human, and that’s the bit worth keeping.

Where did you first hear the Egypt story? Tell me, because I’m collecting them.

18/09/2026

Comment BUILD and I’ll send you the details for my next free workshop.

Can tarot cards lie to you?

I don’t think they can, and I don’t think they’ve ever told you the truth either.

Here’s what’s actually in the Empress, past the bits that get talked about:

- A crown of twelve stars
- Pomegranates all over the gown
- A heart-shaped shield with the sign of Venus on it
- Wheat in the foreground, ready to come in
- A waterfall behind the trees

The comfy chair and the garden are the obvious ones. Every single thing on that list is another way in, and a different person goes to a different one on a different day.

That’s the whole reason symbolism is worth learning. Symbolism gives you vocabulary, it doesn’t give you a script.

So can anyone’s reading of a card actually be wrong? That’s the hour. Sunday 18 October, 4pm UK, live on Zoom, free, and the replay’s yours to keep.

Which card have you been convinced got you completely wrong?

17/09/2026

Comment NOTICE and I’ll send you my free Noticing Tool, which makes you say what’s in a card before it tells you anything.

What does the Six of Swords mean?

It’s usually read as moving on, and there’s a lot more going on in the picture if you actually sit and look at it.

⛵ The water behind the boat is choppy and the water ahead is calm. Which part of the crossing are you on?

⛵ Someone at the back is doing all the steering with a long pole, and a pole like that only works when it touches the bottom. Who’s steering in your situation, and is it you?

⛵ There’s land ahead with trees on it, but the card doesn’t show you what’s waiting there. What are you expecting to find when you get across?

⛵ Six swords stand upright in the front of the boat, and they’re going wherever the boat goes. What are you bringing with you, and does it still need to come?

None of those questions have a right answer. The picture’s just giving you somewhere to start, and whatever you notice in it is yours to work with.

Put a tarot reader in the corner of a party and the room does something you don't expect. The first person over is nervo...
15/09/2026

Put a tarot reader in the corner of a party and the room does something you don't expect. The first person over is nervous. They come back having been read to filth, and then there's a queue with the sceptics in it.

Nobody needs to know anything about tarot. Most people who get a reading at a party have never had one, and sitting down and finding out is a great way to try it.

If you're thinking about it for a birthday, a hen do or Halloween, here's what you actually need: a table, two chairs and a quiet corner. The reader brings the rest. You can run it with a list of who's getting read, or as an open table where people wander over when they fancy it.

Nobody gets put on the spot. A good reader won't read anyone who hasn't asked, won't read anyone under 18, and leaves health and legal stuff alone.

Halloween's on a Saturday this year, so now is when you ask.

Comment EVENT and I'll send you how to book me for yours.

14/09/2026

The Ten of Swords turns up and everyone reaches for the same word. Ruin.

Here's what I'd ask before opening a book.

- What has already finished that you're still bracing for? There's nobody else in that picture. Whatever happened, happened.
- What were you holding together in your head? Swords is the suit of the mind, so it's usually a way of thinking that's collapsed.
- What does the morning after this actually look like? There's a sunrise in there. It's the smallest thing in the picture and it's still there.

However you answer those, that's your read of it. The book can't do that bit for you.

I'm running a free workshop on Sunday 18 October, an hour on Zoom, and the question running underneath the whole thing is whether anyone's read of a card is ever wrong. Comment BUILD and I'll send you the details, or sign up here: https://tarotwithgord.com/services/simply-tarot-workshops/

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