The Wootique Writes...

  • How can I reconnect with my tarot cards?

    by Miranda Cook

    Tarot, like any practice, is an easy one to let slide. Life gets in the way, we may not feel as connected to our spiritual side when dealing with the bills and news of the world. And sometimes you may want to take a break from using your tarot decks - and that's okay!

    But what if you miss the ritual, the comfort and the guidance offered by a regular tarot consultation and want to 'get the vibe' back? Here are a few tips which have helped me when I thought me and the tarot might never, ever, get back together...

    Posted in tarot for wellbeing, tarot for your self, tarot reading

  • Change is on the way at The Wootique

    by Miranda Cook
    Change is in the air at The Wootique as I'm having to streamline the way the shop operates. 
    Posted in community collection, shop update

  • The Wootique Social - a magnificent tarot community event

    by Miranda Cook
    A massive thank you to everyone who came from far and wide to attend the first Wootique Social in London at the weekend.
    Posted in Wootique Socials

  • Introducing The Wootique Studio

    by Miranda Cook
    On the day of the new moon in Aries I was offered a kind of crazy opportunity to rent a small studio right by a central line tube station in east London.

  • The great tarot gathering - AKA The Wootique Socials

    by Miranda Cook
    Friends, let us gather for an afternoon of tea, cake and tarot and chat. I thought it would be lovely for tarot enthusiasts who are able to travel to London to meet for a few hours
    Posted in Wootique Socials

  • Book Review: Will You Give Me A Reading?

    by Miranda Cook
    Let's face it, tarot books can be really dry. Either they are directories of card meanings, or possibly high brow studies of symbols or correspondences. What I wanted was a book about what it feels like to be a tarot reader, and to answer some of the questions I have as a tarot reader for others 
    Posted in book review, tarot books

  • I learned tarot in a haunted house...

    by Miranda Cook
    I (hilariously) appeared in the December edition of Fate and Fortune magazine, telling the tale of how I was a teen learning tarot in a haunted house
    Posted in substack

  • Help... I don't understand the Justice card in tarot

    by Miranda Cook
    In the second of my series exploring the most ambiguous or not-as-straightforward-as-it looks tarot cards of the major arcana, we are taking a look at the Justice card.
    Posted in beginners tarot, justice card, tarot beginner

  • Book review: Witchy Books for Winter

    by Miranda Cook
    January is a very good month (regardless of your beliefs) to hibernate. Eat root veggies, drink hot tea, curl up under a warm blanket and read lots of books. The following are three books I recommend for wintering this year...
    Posted in book review, witchy things

  • Calling all mystical beings...

    by Miranda Cook
    As some of you may know I was a writer in a previous incarnation (ie the 90s) and I miss it very much...
    Posted in my mystical life, writing

  • Multiple Knights, Queens and Kings in a tarot reading

    by Miranda Cook
    Do you find the tarot court cards confusing? What if there are lots of court cards in a tarot reading? Is there a special meaning to three kings or two queens? Check out A E Waite's definitions for multiple knights, queens or kings in your spread...
    Posted in beginners tarot, court cards, multiple tarot cards

  • Multiple tens or pages in a tarot reading

    by Miranda Cook
    What do three pages in a tarot reading mean? Are two tens in a reading significant? Rider Waite Smith tarot author A E Waite thought so, here are his definitions and for reversed cards too...
    Posted in beginners tarot, court cards, multiple tarot cards