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A little more than a decade ago I lived in a large collective house in a small college town. There were six full-time inhabitants, a rotating number of medium- to long-term guests, two bathrooms, one landline, no cellphones; at least half of us had long-distance lovers, and all of us had anxious hearts and a strong propensity for gossip. Sound familiar?
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\nIt was within this charged environment that I was first introduced to tarot. One of my roommates\u2014a dear friend of mine\u2014would read people\u2019s cards over dinner, in the middle of house parties, etc. My bedroom was off the kitchen, with French doors in place of a wall between the two. All too often, I took it upon myself to interrupt conversations with sarcastic quips from across the hallway, even or perhaps especially if I knew little about what was being discussed.
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\n\u201cHow do we know you\u2019re not just using tarot as a pretense to dig for dirt on our love lives?\u201d I would ask, a strange accusation in the context of folks who lived in such close quarters already. My roommate teased me back, suggesting I was scared of what the cards might tell me, and it was in that moment that I firmly and stubbornly adopted my position as a tarot skeptic.
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\nIn more recent years, I\u2019ve continued to be surrounded by lovely queers drawn to tarot and other occult practices and again, for little reason beyond being a brat and\/or looking down my nose at things that seemed propped up by hype, I shied away. It would be dishonest to claim I haven\u2019t absorbed a fair bit without meaning to, however. This shows in my offhand comments made at family gatherings about my brother being \u201csuch a Gemini,\u201d or the number of times I\u2019ve opened a friend\u2019s birthday book when I thought she wasn\u2019t looking.
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\nIn the eight years since moving to Montreal, I managed to somehow avoid having my cards read by everybody\u2019s favourite queer tarot aficionado, who also happened to be my best friend and future business partner. But things really came to a head when Oliver and I decided to release a tarot book as Metonymy\u2019s first solo project. With them as the author, and only two of us as staff, I became the primary editor. Since the fall, I\u2019ve been reading and revising the manuscript of She Is Sitting in the Night<\/i>, asking a million amateur questions, and, by the end, I think I\u2019m finally ready to admit that I understand some of the appeal.
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\nBecause as much as I resisted my former roommate\u2019s attempts to make sense of my life and my world for me, it\u2019s actually only through talking out my thoughts (whether about how I should get through my day, or how to grapple with the latest horrible fucked up thing that\u2019s happened in the world) that I am able to come to any kind of clarity on just about anything. There\u2019s a reason I was drawn to collective living in the first place, after all. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll ever be the kind of person who draws a card every morning, or seeks out lengthy readings leading up to pivotal life events, but I will say that, even after having read the book more than a few dozen times already, I look forward to having it as a reference guide on my own bookshelf. Because who wouldn\u2019t benefit from some beautifully crafted, intergenerational queer\/feminist self-reflection every once in a while?
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\nOh, and for the record, Oliver did finally read my cards last summer, and I survived without incident. Turns out I only had to dig up as much dirt as I was ready for.
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\n[Featured in image: Myself and Oliver with Rima Athar, who discovered Ruth West’s deck and wrote the book’s foreword. Photo by Jackson Ezra]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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