Tom Benjamin (He/Him/Your Highness)
@tombenjamintarot.bsky.social
Tarot reader and teacher. Witchboy 🧛🏻♂️. “The Modern Fortune Teller’s Field Guide” coming Autumn 2025 from Crossed Crow. 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
From the future to the human ego, (re)discover why the world NEEDS you, fortune tellers.
#tarot #fortuneteller #modernfortuneteller #modernfortunetellersfieldguide #mftfg #lenormand #casting #witch
#tarot #fortuneteller #modernfortuneteller #modernfortunetellersfieldguide #mftfg #lenormand #casting #witch
October 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
From the future to the human ego, (re)discover why the world NEEDS you, fortune tellers.
#tarot #fortuneteller #modernfortuneteller #modernfortunetellersfieldguide #mftfg #lenormand #casting #witch
#tarot #fortuneteller #modernfortuneteller #modernfortunetellersfieldguide #mftfg #lenormand #casting #witch
One day more! The Modern Fortune Teller’s Field Guide arrives tomorrow!
October 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
One day more! The Modern Fortune Teller’s Field Guide arrives tomorrow!
October 3, 2025 at 11:49 PM
"Tom's book isn't just a guide to fortune telling as a craft. It's also the real-life story of becoming and unbecoming and becoming a diviner once more, much bolder and truer as a result..."
Thomas Witholt, founder of Hermit's Mirrorauthor of the Seaborn Kipper and Tarot Tableau: the Fool's Journey
Thomas Witholt, founder of Hermit's Mirrorauthor of the Seaborn Kipper and Tarot Tableau: the Fool's Journey
September 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
"Tom's book isn't just a guide to fortune telling as a craft. It's also the real-life story of becoming and unbecoming and becoming a diviner once more, much bolder and truer as a result..."
Thomas Witholt, founder of Hermit's Mirrorauthor of the Seaborn Kipper and Tarot Tableau: the Fool's Journey
Thomas Witholt, founder of Hermit's Mirrorauthor of the Seaborn Kipper and Tarot Tableau: the Fool's Journey
Well well well. If it isn’t the fruits of my labor. Hey, Sailor. Come here often?
#fortuneteller #modernfortunetellersfieldguide #mftfg #tarot #lenormand #bonecasting #preorder #newbook
#fortuneteller #modernfortunetellersfieldguide #mftfg #tarot #lenormand #bonecasting #preorder #newbook
September 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Well well well. If it isn’t the fruits of my labor. Hey, Sailor. Come here often?
#fortuneteller #modernfortunetellersfieldguide #mftfg #tarot #lenormand #bonecasting #preorder #newbook
#fortuneteller #modernfortunetellersfieldguide #mftfg #tarot #lenormand #bonecasting #preorder #newbook
"The point is: question everything. That's what fortune tellers do. We don't just accept what we're told, we hold it to the light and figure out what's true."
September 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"The point is: question everything. That's what fortune tellers do. We don't just accept what we're told, we hold it to the light and figure out what's true."
"Happily, most people drawn to divination are also rebels, and as soon as we realize something we've held on to is actually manipulative dogma, we can't wait to toss it into the bin.” #tarot #divination #fortuneteller #tarotwitch #witchboy #preorder #newbook #newtarotbook
September 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
"Happily, most people drawn to divination are also rebels, and as soon as we realize something we've held on to is actually manipulative dogma, we can't wait to toss it into the bin.” #tarot #divination #fortuneteller #tarotwitch #witchboy #preorder #newbook #newtarotbook
“By taking up the mantle of fortune teller, we are aligning ourselves with a traditionally marginalized group. These truth-tellers throughout history suffered at the hands of christo-colonial invaders…. It’s disrespectful not to honor those who came before, who suffered for their art…..”
September 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
“By taking up the mantle of fortune teller, we are aligning ourselves with a traditionally marginalized group. These truth-tellers throughout history suffered at the hands of christo-colonial invaders…. It’s disrespectful not to honor those who came before, who suffered for their art…..”
"When I began reading in the dying embers of the 1990s, the anti-fortune telling view had a powerful hold on the tarot landscape... the effort focused on a symptom, not the disease.…” #tarot #fortuneteller #modernfortuneteller #divination #lenormand #bonecasting #newbook #preorder #crossedcrowbooks
September 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
"When I began reading in the dying embers of the 1990s, the anti-fortune telling view had a powerful hold on the tarot landscape... the effort focused on a symptom, not the disease.…” #tarot #fortuneteller #modernfortuneteller #divination #lenormand #bonecasting #newbook #preorder #crossedcrowbooks
"Fortune telling is a political role simply because fortune tellers thumb our nose at musty power structures. We don't care what anyone believes, what anyone thinks about us, or about anyone's NDAs, gag orders, codes of silence, codes of conduct, or limited world view."#tarot #divination #fortune
September 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"Fortune telling is a political role simply because fortune tellers thumb our nose at musty power structures. We don't care what anyone believes, what anyone thinks about us, or about anyone's NDAs, gag orders, codes of silence, codes of conduct, or limited world view."#tarot #divination #fortune
"Martin Luther King Jr. was a fortune teller. So, too, were Audre Lorde, bell hooks, and Larry Kramer....Would any have identified that way? Likely not. This didn't stop these folks from saying what they saw—from telling the future, the fortune that could be if only…” #tarot #fortuneteller
September 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
"Martin Luther King Jr. was a fortune teller. So, too, were Audre Lorde, bell hooks, and Larry Kramer....Would any have identified that way? Likely not. This didn't stop these folks from saying what they saw—from telling the future, the fortune that could be if only…” #tarot #fortuneteller
“The best system for fortune telling is whatever the hell you want it to be. You could use a deck of Cards Against Humanity phrases if you wanted to. All we need is a system for making it work, and it will work.”
#tarot #divination #fortunetelling #fortuneteller #witch #lenormand #bonecasting
#tarot #divination #fortunetelling #fortuneteller #witch #lenormand #bonecasting
September 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
“The best system for fortune telling is whatever the hell you want it to be. You could use a deck of Cards Against Humanity phrases if you wanted to. All we need is a system for making it work, and it will work.”
#tarot #divination #fortunetelling #fortuneteller #witch #lenormand #bonecasting
#tarot #divination #fortunetelling #fortuneteller #witch #lenormand #bonecasting
…do readings about everything. Every single thing you can think of, do a reading about it—the election, the economy, your neighbor’s creepy son, whether or not the Red Sox will win. Read about all the things and do so gleefully,willfully, and with your boldest middle finger to convention.
September 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
…do readings about everything. Every single thing you can think of, do a reading about it—the election, the economy, your neighbor’s creepy son, whether or not the Red Sox will win. Read about all the things and do so gleefully,willfully, and with your boldest middle finger to convention.
I’ll say this: The single advantage that the grand tableau and lenormand have over tarot—from what I can tell in my working life—is that when a client comes back with more questions, I can answer them without a new spread of cards.
#lemormand #tarot #fortuneteller #divination #grandtableau
#lemormand #tarot #fortuneteller #divination #grandtableau
September 6, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I’ll say this: The single advantage that the grand tableau and lenormand have over tarot—from what I can tell in my working life—is that when a client comes back with more questions, I can answer them without a new spread of cards.
#lemormand #tarot #fortuneteller #divination #grandtableau
#lemormand #tarot #fortuneteller #divination #grandtableau
The Modern Fortune Teller’s Field Guide coming 10/7 . “Even when people want advice, when we ask for it, we listen politely…and then we still go off and do whatever the hell it was we were going do already. Advice is kind of a waste of time. But we do react to our reflections, don’t we?”
September 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The Modern Fortune Teller’s Field Guide coming 10/7 . “Even when people want advice, when we ask for it, we listen politely…and then we still go off and do whatever the hell it was we were going do already. Advice is kind of a waste of time. But we do react to our reflections, don’t we?”
Etsy overrun by scam artist “readers” using ai to do their work. Fuck you if you do this. #tarot #tarottalk #tarotsky #witch #witchsky #witchtalk #fortuneteller #scam #fraud #ai
September 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Etsy overrun by scam artist “readers” using ai to do their work. Fuck you if you do this. #tarot #tarottalk #tarotsky #witch #witchsky #witchtalk #fortuneteller #scam #fraud #ai
August 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Trying a new workshop format. Open office hours. You, me, and whoever else wants to play—and any (mostly) #tarot topics that come up. Dates in my Etsy shop. www.etsy.com/listing/4332...
July 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Trying a new workshop format. Open office hours. You, me, and whoever else wants to play—and any (mostly) #tarot topics that come up. Dates in my Etsy shop. www.etsy.com/listing/4332...
Hey! 13 years of annoying all the right people—and somehow still failing to crack 10k subs. 🤣 here’s to—I don’t even know at this point. 🤣 pissinf off the third of the tarot community who doesn’t think I’m a tool? seems like both no time and all and simultaneously like 30 years.
July 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Hey! 13 years of annoying all the right people—and somehow still failing to crack 10k subs. 🤣 here’s to—I don’t even know at this point. 🤣 pissinf off the third of the tarot community who doesn’t think I’m a tool? seems like both no time and all and simultaneously like 30 years.
June 20, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Suppose there’s an icy 🥶 institution you want to work on. Return to sender with a mirror box candle. You need cheap craft mirrors and duct tape and white or sliver candle (reflective)…::: #witch #witchcraftispolitical #spell #hex
June 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Suppose there’s an icy 🥶 institution you want to work on. Return to sender with a mirror box candle. You need cheap craft mirrors and duct tape and white or sliver candle (reflective)…::: #witch #witchcraftispolitical #spell #hex
#tarottip when you have a topic you want to read about but you can’t decide on what particular question to focus on, shuffle the deck and make this agreement with the tarot and assorted guides:
#tarot #tarottalk #tarotsky #fortuneteller
#tarot #tarottalk #tarotsky #fortuneteller
June 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
#tarottip when you have a topic you want to read about but you can’t decide on what particular question to focus on, shuffle the deck and make this agreement with the tarot and assorted guides:
#tarot #tarottalk #tarotsky #fortuneteller
#tarot #tarottalk #tarotsky #fortuneteller
Omg did you know my book is coming out this year??? Trying to get word into the wild. Have you preordered? Those help lil writers like me! #tarot #tarottalk #tarotsky #fortuneteller #divination #lenormand #bonecasting
April 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Omg did you know my book is coming out this year??? Trying to get word into the wild. Have you preordered? Those help lil writers like me! #tarot #tarottalk #tarotsky #fortuneteller #divination #lenormand #bonecasting
Living like kings tonight, yawl. Eggs! Thai omelette to be specific. One of the greatest 👏 foods 👏 ever 👏. #foodporn #thaiomelette
April 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Living like kings tonight, yawl. Eggs! Thai omelette to be specific. One of the greatest 👏 foods 👏 ever 👏. #foodporn #thaiomelette