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Welcome to Mystical Fortunes Tarotscopes: the Sun’s tarot card every ten days, with the planets laid out on the deck, for people who want to learn the cards properly and have them read with a little of the sky behind them.
Here is what most tarot teachers will not tell you: the cards were built on a calendar.
Every numbered card, Two through Ten, belongs to ten days of the year, a small room in the zodiac that the old readers called a decan.
The Sun walks through all thirty-six of those rooms in a year, and the planets wander through them at their own speeds.
Learn a card on the days the Sun is standing on it and it stays learned. Pull the same card from your own deck on those days and it starts to speak. That is the whole method, and it asks about ten minutes of you every ten days.
Mystical Fortunes Tarotscopes lives at the crossroads of the cards and the sky.
Each time the Sun moves onto a new card, an issue arrives that morning with the card, a lesson on it, and the board, where every planet sits on its own card and turns it over when it goes retrograde.
Tarot first, with a chef’s kiss of astrology, and no astrology needed to follow it.
Who is this for?
Mystical Fortunes Tarotscopes was written for people who like a reading they can trust and a teacher who does not talk down to them. It speaks to three kinds of people:
The person who wants a reading and has no plans to study. You have never wanted to learn tarot and you are not about to start. You want to know what the cards say about the next ten days, for you and for your sign, in plain words. Every issue gives you that before the teaching, and you can stop reading when you have it.
The person who wants to hold the deck herself. You have a deck, or you are about to buy one, and you want the cards taught one at a time, properly, with the pictures and the numbers and the stories, without signing up for anything. The lesson in each issue is written for you, and over a year it covers the whole minor arcana.
The person who already reads and wants the planets. You know your Cups from your Swords and you have wondered what Jupiter inside a card actually does. The board is where the cards and the sky meet, and it will change how you read the minors.
What you get every ten days inside Mystical Fortunes Tarotscopes
The Sun’s card. Which card, which ten days, which planet keeps that room of the sky, and whose birth card it is if your birthday falls inside the decan.
The lesson. The card taught across the table: the picture, the number, the cards on either side of it, and one thing you can do with it before the Sun moves on. Over a year you learn the whole minor arcana in the order the sky teaches it.
The board. Eight planets, Mercury to Pluto, each placed on the card of the decan it is standing in, upright when the planet is moving forward and reversed when it is retrograde, with what each pairing means for the ten days. When a planet changes rooms or turns around, a card changes, and that is the news of the issue.
A line for your sign. Twelve short readings, so you can go straight to yours.
The Moon in Notes. The Moon changes card frequently, which is too fast for a letter, so her card lives in my Substack Notes with a link back to the issue for the whole reading.
Who am I?
I’m Shanta Lee Meeder, and I am the last person who expected to be writing a tarot newsletter that runs on the sky.
I built a financial advising business the conventional way: credentials, clients, a respectable practice, a life that looked stable from the outside. Then COVID arrived in 2020 and dismantled it. The lockdowns took the business I had spent years constructing, and in a matter of months it was gone.
I had two things left: thirty years of reading cards, a practice I had kept mostly private to friends and family, and a financial advisor’s understanding of ethics and integrity.
On a quiet Tuesday during lockdown I posted my first tarot reading on YouTube, with no strategy and nothing to lose by trying. Women found me. Smart, spiritually awake women who wanted a reader who would tell them what the cards said in plain words and explain the mechanics underneath. Mystical Fortunes on YouTube grew from there, one reading at a time, and Teaching Tarot grew beside it for the people who wanted the deck in their own hands.
This newsletter is the written half of that work. I’m a retired financial advisor, which is why the Suit of Pentacles gets taught properly here. I’m a tarot reader with thirty years of practice, which is why every card gets its picture, its number, its neighbours and its story. And I built this one on the sky because I wanted something steadier than my mood on a Monday to carry it.
Three ways to go deeper
Your free subscriber bonus: the board video
The whole system in seven minutes. Ten cards on a table, the planets placed on them, the reversed ones turned over, so you can watch it move before you read about it. It sits under the first issue and it is yours.
If you wish to go deeper in learning this system, I have a full one hour video in Teaching Tarot on the Mystical Fortunes YouTube channel for The Magician Membership level. You can join here and have instant access to over 80 other lessons on Tarot, Oracle card readings and much more. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCORgvczEOl9W0FgTUJ7Z0mw/join
The cards are already speaking. The sky says when.
See you when the Sun moves.
Shanta Lee