And if you don’t know how to read tarot with those kinds of layers, you should take my self-paced intensive fundamentals, Read Tarot like a Nerd. I’m writing a feminist manifesto for Melville House, and I will just say this about it: it makes me fucking want to die every time I pick up my pen. The inspiration for creativity may come from some stimulus in the outer world, but the act of creation comes from within you.

Lockhart’s book Words as Eggs: Psyche in Language and Clinic, a kind of psychological etymology book. Helpful structure - Crispin limits each card description to a few pages and divides her book into sections on the major arcana while dividing the minor arcana by number instead of suit (an approach I find massively helpful when learning! Maybe I’m not as much of a creative type as I thought, but the safety of my children would always have to come first over “art”. Death prompts us to say goodbye to ways we used to work or live, and the Devil warns against addiction and obsession.And it can be; some people use it that way, just as they use curds of cheese or shapes of clouds to predict the future. This is a book more aimed at someone new to Tarot and who didn't know you could apply it to questions that weren't fortune telling or about relationships.

So while I love using tarot for inspiring characters and stories, you can use tarot for more than writing. With five original tarot spreads and beautiful illustrations throughout, The Creative Tarotis an accessible, colourful guide that demystifies both the tarot and the creative process. If you’re still confused, you can always talk to a friend about the cards you drew or swap readings with each other. And even to this day there is only Jessa Crispin instructing me and sharing with me all things tarot. So if you find yourself stuck without inspiration, it’s worth picking up a tarot deck for two reasons.

Scott Fitzgerald to steal his wife Zelda’s stuff because, “without her husband, many of her thoughts, ideas, and witty lines would have been lost to us. She has a nice suggestion of drawing a card a day and thinking about it during the day and how the card might be applied to various situations.