Welcome to Tarot Guru Studio

First, I want to thank every one of you who has been here - whether you’ve been reading from the beginning or just found your way to this page. You matter to me and I don’t take your attention lightly.

You may have noticed the name has changed. Let me tell you why.

When I first came to Substack, it was to let people behind the curtain at my adult store and share my thinking process from deep inside Jackson, Mississippi. As a small business owner, I could say things that people at the corporate media level simply could not. I’d like to think I created some really interesting articles along the way and introduced you to some of my favorite local characters.

But the word got out. And when I look around Substack now I’m genuinely amazed at the level of talent and gravitas it has attracted. We are living in interesting times, my friends. And suddenly I don’t feel so anonymous or so free.

While brilliant voices like Steve Schmidt, Heather Cox Richardson and Rachel Maddow are doing the necessary work of bearing witness, I have decided to reevaluate what I actually contribute to the conversation. And while my voice is valuable, my position in the community is precarious and the people I employ have asked me not to go around poking bears unnecessarily.

There are enough political commentary blogs on here by genuinely brilliant people to choke even a dedicated news hound to death. What good is one more voice raised in outrage? You don’t need one more person telling you what to think. But you may need one person in all this noise, making a quiet place for you to not think for a minute.

So I am pivoting. I want to try a different tack.

I’ve chosen a different weapon. I make beauty. I cultivate calm. I create spaces where your nervous system can remember what peace feels like.

That is not retreat. That is resistance.

Science has demonstrated that loving kindness meditation doesn’t just heal the person practicing it - it shifts the energy of the environment around them. Peace is contagious. Calm has a radius. And right now the world desperately needs people willing to tend that frequency.

Whenever I have looked at the world and tried to make sense of it I have fallen back upon the archetypes offered by Tarot. It’s been a long-standing passion of mine, and I’m actually a pretty amazing reader. But here in this space I want to give you something different - a place to connect to your own inner wisdom. Your still small center. And occasionally a 30,000-foot view of the beautiful world that we actually inhabit.

Tarot Guru Studio is my creative workspace - the place behind the art, behind the ambient videos, behind the tarot decks. This is where I get to speak directly to you.

And here is my offering: subscribe, and once a month I will lead a loving kindness meditation from a beautiful environment somewhere in the world. Together we are going to strengthen the grid, one sacred space at a time.

Welcome to Tarot Guru Studio. The revolution will be peaceful.