Tarot
I'm a leading commentator on the global tarot industry and modern divination culture. I am the founder of Tarot Interviews, Tarot DMs and the British Tarot Archive, and I coordinated the UK living heritage submission for Rider-Waite-Smith tarot reading practice. In June 2026, I presented my paper, “Tarot Reading as Living Heritage: Documenting Contemporary Rider-Waite-Smith Practice in the UK,” at the Tarot Cultures, a conference organised by Goldsmiths, University of London.
I am available for podcast appearances, features, panels, interviews and comment on tarot culture, modern divination and creative uses of the cards. I can speak on topics including:
- Tarot as living heritage
- Rider-Waite-Smith tarot reading practice in the UK
- The Rider-Waite-Smith deck and its cultural influence
- Tarot, creativity and interview formats
- How tarot became part of contemporary culture
- The best tarot decks for beginners
- Why cards like The Lovers, The Devil and Death still fascinate people
Research and publications
- Presented “Tarot Reading as Living Heritage: Documenting Contemporary Rider-Waite-Smith Practice in the UK” at the Tarot Cultures conference, Goldsmiths, University of London, June 2026.
- Coordinated the UK living heritage submission for Rider-Waite-Smith tarot reading practice, gathering practitioner testimony and public documentation on how the practice is carried, taught, adapted and understood in the United Kingdom.
- Founder of the British Tarot Archive, an independent project documenting tarot decks, objects, publications, people and practice.
- Author of Piercing the PR Shield: Aleatory Intervention as a Method for Disrupting Narrative Control in Qualitative Interviewing, a 2026 working paper on chance-based prompts, narrative control and qualitative interviewing.
- Author of The Beeston Genesis: Robert William Felkin and the Codification of Modern Tarot Systems, a 2026 research preprint connecting Beeston, Robert William Felkin, British tarot history and modern tarot systems.
- While researching early tarot in Britain, I tracked down the birthplace of Robert William Felkin and documented it for inclusion in public geographic records.
Tarot as Living Heritage
My current research focuses on Rider-Waite-Smith tarot reading as a living practice rather than simply as a deck, artwork or historical object.
For the UK living heritage submission, I helped document how tarot reading is sustained through readers, teachers, writers, artists, archivists, study groups and public communities. The work considers how the Rider-Waite-Smith deck gives the practice continuity while allowing meanings, methods and ethical responsibilities to be revised through use.
This research informed my Goldsmiths paper, which used the Three of Pentacles as a way of thinking about tarot as work carried over time by many hands: structured, collaborative, unfinished and continually renewed.
I have been working with tarot for over three decades. This portrait shows me using divination cards in the late 1990s and reflects a long relationship that still shapes how I work today.
