Slow Tarot

Julie Kelton ~ High Low Tarot

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slow tarot roots us into a monthly spread for the collective, with meaning that evolves as the moon waxes and wanes. Offered in a time of chaos as an invitation to slow down and be with the uncertainty of the moment. transmitted by Julie Kelton, High Low Tarot.

Jul 14

Choosing Uncertainty: Slow Tarot for Cancer Season

A new spread for this very watery dark moon in Cancer. The Lovers crossed by the Two of Swords, 8 of Cups (below), the Magician (left), the Chariot (right) and the Ace of Wands (above). These cards are shepherding us through very potent and pivotal astrology, in which the tensions that define this moment – social inequality, structural violence, and corruption – are being highlighted. This spread suggests that a new vision, an opportunity to shift and expand our consciousness is emerging, and with it, perhaps, a path forward. What this requires, however, is a willingness to confront our relationship to safety and security, and what our desires for individual protection have cost our collective. Can we walk away from deeply embedded structures and ways of being, into the uncertain and unknown, together? Reading by Julie Kelton, music by Beth Bradfish. Follow along as the cycle unfolds at https://highlowtarot.com/slow-tarot and patreon.com/highlowtarot
Jun 14

The Earth has Secrets to Share: Slow Tarot for the Gemini New Moon

On this new moon, we begin a new spread to carry us through the month ahead. The more I sit with this earthy spread, the more I feel it calling to us – inviting us to fall in love with the earth, deeper and wilder than we ever have before. I began this dark moon reading thinking about the difference between the 7 of Pentacles and the 6 of Cups. There is so much maintenance and care and tending involved in being alive. Some of that is brought on ourselves, through a dominance paradigm that teaches us that every aspect of our earth can be commodified, tamed, and controlled. But how does connection fit into this picture? What might shift for us if we shift to a receptive sense of stewardship with all aspects of earth in our lives? The invitation from this spread, on this Gemini moon, is to go outside and connect, commune, with the beauty you see. So close and open you hear their secrets, and tell them yours, too. Find more at https://highlowtarot.com/slow-tarot Music by Beth Bradfish, follow along with all my slow tarot explorations for free on Patreon.
May 4

Full Moon Reflection: Braving the Torch of Our Rage

Slow Tarot invites us to root into a spread for the length of the moon's cycle. The cards for this cycle are Strength crossed by the Page of Wands, King of Cups, 3 of Cups Rx, the Tower, 5 of Wands. Recreate this spread while you listen, sit with it a spell. You can find all my contemplations about this spread, alongside invitations to go deeper, at highlowtarot.com/slow-tarot The Scorpio full moon illuminated the role of rage in this spread, for me. A millennia of oppression of our mothers and daughters has brought us to this moment in time. Their rage lives deep inside of us, alongside the memory that societies weren't always hierarchical power structures. Our blood and bones remember how to live in partnership with each other and all of life. The Tower falls when we each find the courage to integrate this deep, ancestral rage. Emotional intelligence and self-compassion (King of Cups) helps to shed the false selves conditioned by the patriarchy. This conditioning has shaped us through generations, and it’s time to burn it all away. In this reading I reference The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler and the Emerald Podcast by Josh Schrei. The music underlying these readings is created by Beth Bradfish, reading by Julie Kelton.
Apr 27

Slow Tarot for the Aries Initiation

Reading by Julie Kelton, music by Beth Bradfish. Slow Tarot is an offering of a collective tarot spread for the month, wisdom to unfold with us as we meet this turbulent, beautiful world. We are well into Taurus season, now, with many planets lingering in Aries, which has been the site of so much activity this past couple of weeks. Are you feeling the spark? Are you letting your frustrations guide you? Are you learning to embrace the chaos? The spread for this month offers much to work with, Strength crossed by the Page of Wands, King of Cups below, 3 of Cups reversed left, The Tower right, and 5 of Wands above. Rooting into emotional intelligence and our hard-won practices of regulation can serve our hopeful visions, while things crash, bend, and break around us. With Uranus in Gemini, things are speeding up and the chaos of our information environment is becoming clear. How can you stay rooted in compassion and care, without getting lost in the undertow? We are living through a time of massive change, and at times it feels like too much to process. The time for superficial relationships, hollow parties, and meaningless busy-ness is behind us. There is too much at stake now, too much exposed and revealed. To go on with business at usual, now, when so much is exposed and crumbling, is to miss this moment entirely. What helps you tend to your fears, grief, and anger, so that the fiery, brave part of you can step forward, with a glint in their eye? Our work of self-knowing and healing isn't occurring despite the turbulence around us, but in conversation with it. A constant push and pull between self-steadying and outward-facing activity, between grieving the horror, devastation, violence, and injustice, and saying the thing, hearing the call, jumping at the chance to tend to the wound, with whatever medicine you have. The time is now, to stay steady, and be brave, friends. Love and reparent the wild creatures within you so they can guide us through the madness. More to come with this spread at highlowtarot.com/slow-tarot. Thank you for listening.
Apr 16

Closing Reflection: Dismantling & Hoping

This moon cycle has taken us through so much collective grief and fear, and so much turbulence. As we sit on the precipice of a new moon in Aries, I return to this spread to reflect on what has occurred over the past month. I talk about the idea of how courage isn't the absence of fear, but instead knowing our fear, and acting anyway. Similarly, grief can help us to know grace, to feel renewal, and to remember hope, even if it's a different hope. Together, these allies, grief, fear, and hope, can lead us into more aligned responses to this heightened moment. And this Aries new moon, tomorrow, it's all about action. This new moon conjoins Chiron, the wounded healer archetype, in the late degrees of Aries, inviting us into a deeper and more active relationship to our wounded sites, personal and collective. With Mercury, Mars, Saturn, and Neptune all hanging out at the beginning degrees of Aries, the focus is very much on our frustrations from lack of action and our desires for movement, maybe even a little "burn it all down" energy. The work of healing is manyfold and requires our mass participation. What is the healing work being whispered to you through your fears, your sorrows, and your soul? Find more slow tarot contemplations, practices, and prompts at highlowtarot.com/slow-tarot
Mar 18

Dark Moon in Pisces: Our Grief Reshapes the World

A new spread for the new moon in Pisces, that carries us through Aries season and the beginning of spring. Music by the great Beth Bradfish. The cards are The Tower Rx crossed by the Emperor Rx (center), 5 of Cups (below), the Star (left), 3 of Pentacles Rx (right), 9 of Swords Rx (above). The two upright cards in this spread are watery, grieving cards, the 5 of Cups and the Star. Allowing ourselves to feel grief for all we've lost and all the destruction we are witnessing returns us home, to our essence, and helps us to remember our radical hopes for another world, one that cares for and nourishes life. This is our birthright and essence, to love and care for one another, but to return there we have to reckon with and dismantle the over-culture of dominion and patriarchal violence, centered in the core of this spread. We are called to work within ourselves as part of this reckoning, to explore our relationship to the myth of toxic individualism (9 of Swords Rx), and find ways to release ourselves from its destructive bonds. This personal and collective deconditioning can return us to more communal states of care, interconnection, and relationality with all life. I will be working with this spread all month on my website, with prompts and a personal spread for you to go deeper with these collective offerings. Thank you for listening. Highlowtarot.com/slow-tarot
Mar 8

The King of Swords meets the world as it is: Reflection on eclipse season.

This is a reflection on the Slow tarot spread for eclipse season, from the Aquarius dark moon (Feb 17, 2026) to the Pisces dark moon (March 18, 2026). As the moon wanes to dark again, I return to this spread in the context of all that's occurred these past few weeks. The two of wands crossed by the hermit seems to highlight the tension between the world we have and the world we so desperately need. The Seven of Swords and King of Swords offer to ways of responding to the present: evading the truth or acknowledging it, head on, with discernment. Astrologically, we are in a time (Saturn + Neptune) where structures can dissolve and reform. Acknowledging and honoring all of the truth of this present moment, tending to our grief for the world we have, helps us to keep an open heart. From this place, we can better seed a world rooted in care and love for life. May it be so. May we embody the Queen of Pentacles, nurturing the life that is here, rooted in our expansive love for it all. Find more about this spread, previous slow tarot readings, and prompts to go deeper with your own deck here: https://highlowtarot.com/slow-tarot
Feb 16

Love is the Root and the Way: Slow Tarot for Eclipse Season

Music and sound by Beth Bradfish. This Slow Tarot spread carries us through this month’s eclipse season, from the new moon in Aquarius to the new moon in Pisces. Our cards are the Two of Wands crossed by the Hermit, the Lovers, Seven of Swords, King of Swords, Queen of Pentacles. The weeks encompassing eclipse season are profoundly disruptive. This month’s eclipses coincide with the highly anticipated saturn neptune exact conjunction, as well as a Mercury retrograde. While the turbulence and confusion of the present moment may persist, revelations are also bound to penetrate the fog. We may not have clarity about what’s happening around us, but we can root into our interdependence; love is the lantern that lights the way. The Saturn-Neptune conjunction that peaks on February 20th is an archetypal and symbolic world birthing, occurring at 0º Aries, the birthplace of spring. This time we are currently living through is potent and revolutionary; with real possibility of dissolving faulty and corrupt structures, and finding our way home to a more loving world. This takes a clarity of values and a willingness to unlearn all of the ways these systems have conditioned within us (King of Swords). It also takes the determination and devotion of the Hermit, the will to traverse the unknown and unfamiliar, with soulful purpose as our guide. This otherworld, one rooted in love and care for each other, is a precious dream we can hold in our hands in this moment. We each have a role to play in its nourishment, from seed to shoot to thriving ecosystem. Grounding into this vision helps us to act with integrity when our Seven of Swords moment comes, and helps us to sustain the daily actions of care that keep this world healthy and growing (Queen of Discs). I will be working with this spread all month, follow along on Patreon for free, or sign up for email updates to your inbox when new reflections emerge. Wishing you ease and loving connection to orient toward amidst the storm.

slow tarot roots us into a monthly spread for the collective, with meaning that evolves as the moon waxes and wanes. Offered in a time of chaos as an invitation to slow down and be with the uncertainty of the moment. transmitted by Julie Kelton, High Low Tarot.

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Julie Kelton ~ High Low Tarot
Years Active

2025 - 2026
Episodes

13
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Clean
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