This is the workbook that will become the home-base for your exploration of Self and Tarot throughout our journey together. The book is 8.5 x 11” and spiral-bound, printed in black and white, with ample space to respond to journaling prompts on the page. Certain prompts are presented with grids and tables or space to draw, allowing you to work through ideas in different ways.

Throughout the book, you’ll also find more than 35 pieces of original artwork by Ami Plasse, incorporating visual suggestions for card meanings and providing spaces to color and personalize your book in different ways. The book is highly portable, flexible, and easy to write in. Wherever you take it, you’re likely to find curious eyes peering at your reading matter!

I created this book after five years reading Tarot for myself and others and teaching Tarot in a variety of contexts. The book conveys my own multi-faceted understanding of the cards, as well as my deep belief that anyone can build connections with Tarot through intuitive sense and personal inquiry.

The journaling prompts for each card draw on a lot of the things I bring to my creativity coaching pra,tice while remaining rooted to the themes of the card. In this way, the prompts are meant to help you coach yourself, in a sense, and unearth specific things that can help you chart your course, whatever it is you’re wanting to shift, mend, grow, or release.

Many of the folks who’ve worked with the prompts say they offer new perspectives on Tarot cards and their meanings, while eliciting surprising thoughts, discoveries, and visions. I crafted the book so that, at the end of a writing session, you might exclaim (as others have after working with the book): Wow! I didn’t know that was in me!

Because our experience centers around the Tarot for Creative Spirits workbook, you get to move at your own pace, in your own way. And you have monthly group support to check in, whether it’s been a busy journaling month, more sporadic, or even more of a stall. There will be ebbs and flows, and that’s okay.

There are 78 cards in the Tarot, and therefore 78 prompts, and 365 days in a year. If you consistently complete one to two prompts per week, you’ll be finished with the workbook in a year’s time. This also provides time and space to integrate and process what comes up as you move through the prompts.

No two people will journey through the book in the same way, and that’s by design. We receive so much programming in life about how to do things, the importance of “strategic planning,” following protocol, and linear progression. All of these instructions override our more natural way of being, which is more fluid, meandering, and associative. This approach is equally available to us (but unfamiliar) and usually more sustainable.

While you can move through the book from front to back, many people move in a nonlinear fashion, experiencing ebbs and flows, and creating a process that works for them. Many members of CMC move through the book by pulling a Tarot card that takes them to a specific prompt, allowing the process to move randomly (or guided by a Universal consciousness, if you care to think of it that way!).

The goal is to help you look for patterns, rhythms, and messages that shine through when we let go of linear progressions and allow ourselves to sink into the fluidity of a more intuitive and open-ended way of engaging with the world.

Not only will the journaling prompts allow for powerful self-discovery, you’ll also see what’s possible when you release attachment to linear time (not fully, but somewhat) and experience life through cycles, phases, and seasons.

Our monthly group calls are spaces where members of the Collective can bring questions, concerns, stories, insights, and challenges to the circle for support and exploration.

Each call begins with a grounding and centering exercise, then I may speak briefly about a topic or prompt that’s come up in one-on-one sessions, journaling calls, or inside our virtual chat space.

Then the floor opens for members to raise questions or report on the magic they’re making. I offer coaching, guidance, feedback, or mentorship in response, and other community members are invited to share their insights and support as well.

In some calls, there may be time for everyone to share, while in others, perhaps only a few people will share in the circle. We will try to accommodate as many people as possible in each call, while also allowing ample space for people to speak and process. You are never required to share, and you can remain off-camera most of the time. (We do love for folks to come on camera at the beginning and end of calls to say hello and goodbye, but this is a preference and not a command!)

My experience as a participant in other group environments is that when other folks share and raise questions, I receive new insight, information, and perspective when I look for it, even when it’s not me who is receiveing direct support.

I also strongly believe, and it has been my experience, that deeper healing and growth happen in the presence of loving community, where kindred spirits witness us in our vulnerability and offer connection and support.

Calls will be held on Zoom, usually during weekday evenings (we will vary the day each month). Calls are recorded and stored for members to access at any time in our Mighty Networks community, the platform we’ll be using to organize get-togethers, recordings, and virtual chats.

These 30-minute sessions take place one to two times per week on Zoom, and we may occasionally host journaling “sprints” — weeks where we offer sessions five days in a row.

In these sessions, we use the first five minutes to say hello, check in, and pull cards, or share the cards we’ll be working with. Then we have 25 minutes for writing, along with a chill journaling playlist that continues to grow (and which you can access for your solo journaling sessions as you like)! The final five minutes are reserved for quick reports and questions. I never schedule something immediately after a journaling call, so there’s room for extra time if our closing conversation is more spacious and rich.

Journaling sessions are a nice space to get to know fellow members a little better, in a slightly more intimate setting. I often find that certain people end up in a session together on a certain day because they’re meant to have a helpful and supportive exchange with one another.

When you join the Collective, you have access to one 75-minute integration call with me (Cecily). We can use this call to explore whatever may come up for you in the journaling process.

That might look like: exploring your process itself, in terms of where you’re feeling ease or resistance; exploring the patterns that show up in your card pulls, unpacking the discoveries you’re making as you write, draw, and reflect — and also what to do with those discoveries.

These one-on-one calls are an open space for you to brainstorm, test theories, dig a little deeper, be witnessed in your experience, and receive feedback or suggestions on how to move forward.

We may touch on elements of your creative practice, your work life, relationships, or family and partnerships — it’s up to you, and nothing is off-limits, so long as it feels connected to what’s coming up in your journaling exploration.

If you’d like additional one-on-one support, you can book three additional calls for $70 each during the course of your year-long membership. That’s one-third of my typical price, and I currently do not offer one-off coaching calls anywhere but inside the Collective.

Once you join, you’ll receive simple instructions for how to schedule your call.

Folks who are attracted to this space tend to be in some phase of transition (wanting to make a change in the way they work or live, moving through a period of grief, preparing to start a new venture, stepping into a bolder, more liberated Self, etc.). 

Our members are warm, funny, and smart. They are Creative Spirits who dabble, play, and practice in various artforms. They are always, so far, women and nonbinary folks, but the group is open to all genders. CMC members feel attracted, on some level, to the mysterious elements of life and power they hold. 

They’ve also lived interesting lives and do really cool things in the world. They show up for each other and support each other and take inspiration from one another. I feel extremely lucky that I get to be part of it!

I’m Cecily, the founder and creator of Typewriter Tarot, a project that aims to support Creative Spirits in cultivating more magical, spiritual, and creative lives.

My work as a facilitator is informed by my experience coaching and mentoring folks one-on-one, and helping them build strong, healthy relationships with themselves, their intuition, and their creative visions.

I also incorporate into my work my past work experience in community-based creative arts nonprofits, where I led workshops, trained artists, organized library events, and collaborated with schools, community centers, museums, and libraries.

I’m a writer myself, with a background in fiction and journalism. I earned an MFA in creative writing (fiction) from the University of Houston, and I’ve published pieces in The Dallas Morning News, The Texas Observer, The Austin Chronicle, and Austin Fit Magazine. I also produced stories on social services organizations across the U.S. as part of a small corporate media outlet inside a tech company.

The work I do today through Typewriter Tarot (and the Collective!) is the result of my own personal reclamation, which began as a sobriety story that led to a love affair with Tarot and nature-based spirituality.

My work draws on experience with social justice and labor activism, trauma healing, energy work, somatic practices, the power of imagination, and Internal Family Systems (parts work), among other modalities.

My goal is to provide warm and supportive guidance as you find your own way, providing secure space for emotional processing, self-expression, visioning, and forward movement — with a sense of humor and an eccentric eye for associative connections, symbolism, and spiritual possibility. With all the lovely earthiness that only a double-Capricorn can provide!

What you pay to join is up to you (within the options presented). I’ve included some sense of the scale above, but if you’re curious about joining and not sure what to pay, you can fill out the application form and request a curiosity call, where we can explore what feels feasible for you, along with any other questions you might have.