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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Death & Judgment represent either side of major shifts in our personal timelines. Death asks us to come in close and honor that timeline’s close. Judgment asks us to keep our eyes towards the future, towards the big new yes. And drawing them TOGETHER? Well, shit, dude. Cards from The Brady Tarot.

Two Tarot cards stuck into the earth, old leaves and mulch surrounding them at the foot of bushes of Blazing Stars. There are no flowers down here, just beautiful green stems and leaves. On the left is Death, depicting a human skull with amaranth blooming from its eye sockets, a beetle taking a sip of water dripping from one of them. The skull sits atop soil, just below it, a saber tooth tiger skull, and below that, buried deep and emerging from the bottom of the card, the skull of a tyrannosaurus rex. On the right is Judgment. A massive flock of little brown bats bursts forth from a cave in the mountains at high noon, led by an enormous golden eagle.

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The Page of Swords seeks high ground to gain a better vantage point. He’s inexperienced, but he’s confident despite his nerves, and he knows he’ll learn. As he practices, his nerves will disappear, his mind will quiet, he’ll feel more stable on the earth below him, and he’ll grow into the Hermit. 💕

The Hermit and the Page of Swords from the Smith-Waite Centennial deck are nestled amongst leaf litter in the top of a decaying log. The Hermit depicts an elderly man with a white beard, standing against a teal background and wearing a hooded cream-colored robe. He is holding a lantern with a six-pointed star inside. To his right is the Page of Swords, a young man standing atop a hill, blue sky filled with fluffy clouds behind him. The Page wears a pinkish tunic over a yellow shirt and leggings with red boots, and holds a sword up and off to the side, with his long chestnut hair whipping in the wind.

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

hehehe I’m so excited to have this one out!!

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I pulled more excerpts from my journal to build a rough story of strange images, some new and some familiar, and to grapple with the slipperiness of memory. Find this new zine, featuring a spread to interpret your own dreams, in my Ko-Fi shop now. 💕 ko-fi.com/s/b33013d9c0

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

MNEMOSYNE 🫧 While reflecting on the Moon card I reread my dream journal, and found frustrating excerpts from a setting I had not realized had been recurring for months. The plot might be different, but the house was always the same.

A tiny, cream-colored book lies open on the floor, propped open by a white apophylite crystal and leaning on a pale blue celestite. It is mostly out of focus, the edges of everything appearing slightly blue in the pale sunlight.

A large piece of paper titled Mnemosyne Dream Spread and marked by creases lies open on a wooden floor. A sketch of the moon graces the top right of the page, and atop the paper lies a pyramid of Tarot cards from The Fountain Tarot. The left side of the paper is held down by purple fragments of lepidolite crystal, and a white chunk of sparkling apophyllite. Laid open over the bottom right of the paper is a small zine open to a spread depicting dream fragments and a drawing of a blueberry bush over arched windows, a humpback whale swimming in from the right.

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

damn, the fati do be fati-ing

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Omg what species of nuthatch is this?! It looks just like our Red-breasted in the US 🥹

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

RIGHT. I wanted to be like I swear I didn’t round this 😂

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

It’s so textbook, I can’t even 😂

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

the South Node is the dragon’s butt where he poops and also Virgo rules intestines so the poop node is ascending in the sign of the poop. Astrology by AshleyTM

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

astro bisky, I present unto you: my toddler’s first poop in the potty 😌

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ꙮ 🔮 📝 sadalsvvd 🌐 🪐 ꙮ @sadalsvvd.space · 20/01/2026

I'm too locked in. I need to deplatform from myself

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enantiomer @bonkydog.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

this is the key to magic

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

peregrine falcon at pictured rocks national lakeshore munising, michigan, june 2022

a photo from below, looking up at the belly of a peregrine falcon coasting across a cloudy sky. their belly and the undersides of their wings are cream, heavily barred with a deep brown, and their bright, thick yellow feet are clasped below them.

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

honey badger don’t want none if you ain’t got bugs hun

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

omg I had one who used to use his a pillow

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

it's not by any means the only type of reading I offer, but LOTS of my clients are going through career transitions, or are looking to kickstart an artistic, magical, or spiritual project of some kind. so I really love looking at a couple potential narratives.

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

1: we chat a little bit about what you want to get out of the cards and, if you're totally new to the cards, I can give you an intro 2: we get the lay of the land of the problem / question 3: we compare/contrast 2-3 options and the hour actually goes really fast!

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

if you're like (rightfully so) Ash, what in the butts am I going to talk to you about for an hour with Tarot, my sessions usually (not always, but usually) go something like:

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

11/fin: the most critical thing in my practice is that I don't want someone walking away feeling unmoored or unanswered, and that's going to look different for every client depending on what they're seeking.

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

10/ I don't charge by number of cards / the spread I'm using, I charge by time, because part of my job is helping someone find the right question and/or sequence of questions to ask.

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

8/ Tarot is SO much fucking fun, but it's also really tender, and I need the space before and after to make sure I'm taking good care of my clients and myself.

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

7/ The other facet is, whether you think it "works" or not, creating a good reading experience is a lot of work. People naturally want to use Tarot to explore heavy questions. I'm providing an uninterrupted hour of vent time.

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

6/ the need for asking for that is important to keep it from being a free-for-all (ask me how i know) (don't)

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

5/ Divination is fun, but it's not a basic human need that requires accommodating. Which is not to say that I don't accommodate, because I do make space in my schedule for reduced price readings if someone's genuinely interested.

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

4/ If you're looking for divination from other people often enough that this is an issue, you should probably teach yourself. (there's a whole rabbit hole I could go on here about responsible question asking)

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

3/ There's two key facets of this to me and the first is this idea that Tarot spreads and "card pulls" shouldn't be expensive, but cost actually acts as a gateway from overuse.

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

2/ It's $122 for an hour (live, one-on-one) session with me, and in some circles I get hand smacks for charging too little, and in others people think I'm _clearly_ scamming, which, lol.

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

1/ I need to do a More Real blog post writeup about this once I bone up, but I've been thinking a lot about charging for Tarot readings in certain scenes, and it's super fraught.

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Book here on Calendly. If you're a returning client and would like to book a 75 minute session or you're having trouble finding a spot, shoot me a DM or email for additional availability. ✨ calendly.com/ashleymcquai...

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Divination Session (Jan-Feb 2026) - Ashley McQuaid

$122 USD. An hour together to explore your questions using Tarot & Lenormand.

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I work with Tarot and Lenormand in combination and am extremely beginner-friendly; please don't feel like you need exposure to either first before having a reading with me!

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I've just opened bookings for the second half of January, through the end of February! Cartomancy sessions with me are an hour long. Come with a particular question or project in mind, or just as you are, and we'll open with a chat to decide what kinds of spreads will suit your needs.

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Omg I would love to know which one!! We’ve been thinking about getting my bubba one

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I love when my host Kira Ryberg is joined by the incredible, the beautiful, the generous, the kind Chloe Margherita

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Miss Piggy as Benjamina Gunn in Muppet Treasure Island is an avatar of Ariadne. In this essay I w

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

who asked for this! nobody asked for this!

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

IDK I ONLY LEARNED ABOUT THEM LAST MONTH

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