Reading the Grip
A Field Note Series on Reading Seekers in High-Stakes Situations
Four Field Notes on recognising seeker grip, reading under pressure, and carrying interpretive structure when outcomes feel life-or-death.
Field Notes
The living observational layer of Tides of Knowing: practitioner notes, reflections, and shorter pieces drawn from real interpretive work.
Longer-form methodology and framework writing lives in Articles. Field Notes focus on symbolic reading in practice: what showed up in the reading field and how attention moved.
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Why I Rarely Start with Yes or No in Tarot
Why yes/no tarot questions often compress a situation before the cards can describe it accurately, and how symbolic evidence in the image reveals yes, no, or not clear yet.
How I Use the Four Knights in Tarot When the Work Needs to Move
A personal Field Note on using the four Knights in tarot as focused working energies for motivation, direction, and intuitive decision-making when a project needs movement.
Where AI Stops Reading
A Field Note exploring why AI tarot interpretation often answers the surface question while missing the deeper human tension underneath it.
Reading the Grip
A Field Note Series on Reading Seekers in High-Stakes Situations
Four Field Notes on recognising seeker grip, reading under pressure, and carrying interpretive structure when outcomes feel life-or-death.
The Origin of The COMPASS Method™
Leigh Spencer reflects on how the COMPASS Method emerged over decades of intuitive reading practice, and why attention, not knowledge, became the defining factor in clarity.
Reading as Relationship, Not Performance
When tarot becomes a performance for an audience, intuitive work loses the slack it needs; Leigh Spencer traces consent, repair, and the everyday habits that keep readings relational for clients and for yourself.
Ethics, Lineage, and the Long View
Leigh Spencer situates intuitive tarot in history and whakapapa, defines a modest ethical frame for readers and teachers, and clarifies how public articles and The Deck Compass classroom can share one standard across different containers.
Welcome to Tides of Knowing
Leigh Spencer introduces Tides of Knowing and The Deck Compass, explains how methodology articles differ from this journal, and argues that structure helps intuitive tarot readers stay precise without losing warmth.