A new way forward

Please do read this. Softening in creative community

Mar 05, 2026

Hello there

I would like to let you know my new way forward in the Moon Shed now I have taken a little time out ( well almost but not quite). Three of cups thoughts are at the end.

The foundations

Tarot will still be the foundation of my writing. I love the cards and they hold everything I want to write about. Everything else I love will fall under that umbrella. Tarot feels like the ground. The catch all. I don’t write ABOUT tarot, I write WITH it now.

Themes

I would love to keep the themes I write about (under the general tarot umbrella) more spontaneous. I am a thoughtful woman who wants to be open, creative and intuitive in her writing and approach. Nothing is off limits. Everything is allowed. I would like to drop the labels I attached to my page and be a little more free. I can feel the life coming back to me just saying that.

Kind to you and me

I have more of a sense of what I can manage as a writer now and I would like to write in a sustainable way.

I would also like to give you less to do as readers. I would love for you to feel you can tune in, read and never feel there is anything to catch up on or do.

If you leave the page with a new thought or different way to think I will be happy. This can be enough. This is my offering to you.

Promises

So the only promise I make is not to make BIG unsustainable promises anymore. I suspect I have ADHD and I burn out very easily. It is really hard to manage and I am not at all on top of it.

Paid subscribers

I know this sounds like a promise already but I will send you four posts a month exclusive to you. The themes are not set in stone but tarot will be the catch all for what I write. I hope to write with thoughtfulness, honesty and kindness with pauses on subscriptions when I need breaks.

All subscribers

I would like to send out an additional two posts a month to all subscribers where possible. Some may be short and sweet, some longer.

About Substack

Substack has exploded and the offerings people are creating are incredible. There are a bazillion tarot writers too doing amazing things.

I got caught up in a wave of trying to match the capacity of other people. God it is a bit cringe saying that out loud.

But the truth is I have to pare back and give from a different place.

The capitalist voice in me is screaming ‘nobody will want you unless you give more and more’. The caring voice whispers ‘this is enough’ ‘you give enough with the resources you have’

Unpausing subscriptions

I said I would unpause this week but ~~I have had~~ still have a virus and frozen shoulder so have not been on top of things. I will unpause on my next post.

3 of cups

I drew the 3 of cups this morning whilst sipping a lemsip and sitting in bed in my dressing gown.

I wrote a ton of things about it in my journal but one theme was softness.

The three women in the card are looking out at stars in a calm pink sky. The atmosphere is soft and I have the impression that I too would like to look around me to see what is soft? What is gentle in my immediate environment?

Then I open the blinds and there is a morning mist and sunlight. I let my eyes linger there for a few minutes and take in the softness. The landscape outside my window mirrors the three of cups and I feel peaceful for a moment.

This feels like what tarot is about today. Not finding answers but shifting my internal landscape. Noticing what is soft in a difficult world. Moving forward in a softer way in this creative community too.

Journal prompts

If you soften your eyes in this moment what shifts?

What does creative softness look like in online communities?

Thank you to you all who read my stuff. I appreciate you. If you read this through and would like to help me grow as a creative please do like, comment and share this by restacking it.

Claire