Steve Hounsome - Tarot Reader, Medium, Healer, Teacher and Author

02/08/2026

TAROT FOR LIVING AND DYING – A TWO-PART WORKSHOP

PART 1 - WEDNESDAY 16TH SEPTEMBER – 7–10 PM UK TIME
PART 2 – WEDNESDAY 28TH OCTOBER – 7-1O PM, UK TIME

A new and unique, two-part workshop to enable and empower you to truly and fully Live, and come to peaceful acceptance of your mortality, a truly liberating experience.

This is a chance to participate in a workshop geared towards fully embracing the Big Questions of Life and Death, using the Tarot as your guide, mentor and friend.

The workshop will be held on two separate occasions, one month apart, for three hours each, giving time to explore in-depth this strongest of subjects.

Part 1 of this workshop explores -
• Who you are
• What you are here to do
• How you will do it
• Where you belong
• Why you want do it

The Tarot will show you the obstacles and challenges you may need to overcome and how to do so. We will work with the Tarot to see what is required for you to embrace your Self and Life by –
• Awakening
• Strengthening
• Authenticating
• Lightening
• Releasing
• Progressing

Part 2 of this workshop explores –
• The concept of our Death and ways in which we can prepare for it so we come to peace with it
• How we can trace our path from our Death to where we are now
• What is needed to fully embrace our Death and bring full meaning, purpose and awareness to ourselves and our life now

Based on, but not limited to my book ‘Tarot for Living and Dying’, I believe the subject matter of this workshop can be a key shift to letting your Live with a capital L. The fear of Death can be a fundamentally limiting thing, but having had cause to do so myself, embracing it can be profoundly liberating.

We can tap into the timeless wisdom of the Tarot to help us do all this, in a gentle yet honest way. You do not need to be any kind of expert in Tarot to attend this workshop, just a basic familiarity of Tarot is all you need. You will need a Tarot deck of your choice (not an oracle deck), pen and paper and an open and willing heart and mind.

To enrol on both workshops, cost is £50, payable in full to book your place. If you prefer to book only Part 1, cost is £30. If there are places available you can book Part 2 for a further £30. Places are limited and will be allocated first-come, first-served. Payment is by Bank Transfer in the UK or Paypal if not, using my email [email protected] to identify me. The workshop will take place by zoom and meeting info. will be emailed on receipt of booking to confirm your place.

If you have any questions please feel free to email me [email protected]

21/06/2026

The longest day of the year.

At the solstice, everything that has been growing since the dark of winter arrives at a point of maximum illumination. And in my experience, the energy body responds. People feel more at this time of year. They notice more. The longer light seems to thin the boundary between what we carry inside and what we're ready to see.

In the framework Philip and I developed, the solar plexus is where personal power and radiance live. It's the seat of The Chariot, Justice, and The Tower. Control, truth, and the breaking open of what no longer serves.

This is solstice energy. Most people feel it whether they can name it or not.

If you've been drawn to work with the Tarot and the energy body, the longest day of the year might be a fine time to begin. Use the code SOLSTICE25 for a 25% welcome reduction through the end of June.

Overview What You'll Learn Syllabus Instructors Live Q&As FAQ Enroll Now The Energy Body in Tarot A Guided Practice Through the Seven Chakras with Philip Ca

16/06/2026

Some news I've been looking forward to sharing.

Philip Carr-Gomm and I have brought our course to Global Spiritual Studies. It's called The Energy Body in Tarot: A Guided Practice Through the Seven Chakras.

Some of you will remember this work under its earlier name, Tarot Chakra Journey. The course has been renamed and upgraded. All nine lessons now have subtitles in eleven languages. There's a quiz and Certificate of Completion. And the part I'm most excited about: two live Q&A sessions where Philip and I will be there to respond to your questions directly.

We also added seven of my Tarot Therapy meditations as bonus material. These are standalone journeys I've been guiding people through for years, and I'm glad they now have a proper home alongside the chakra work.

The course teaches our original framework, the Three Septenaries, which maps all 78 Tarot cards to the seven chakras. It works with any deck. Nine lessons, root to crown, with guided meditations set to original sound healing music tuned to the frequency of each chakra.

If you've been curious about the intersection of Tarot and the energy body, this is the work Philip and I created to explore exactly that.

Overview What You'll Learn Syllabus Instructors Live Q&As FAQ Enroll Now The Energy Body in Tarot A Guided Practice Through the Seven Chakras with Philip Ca

12/06/2026

Here's something that stands on its own, whether or not you ever take a course from me.

Global Spiritual Studies has put together a Tarot and Chakra Quiz based on the framework Philip Carr-Gomm and I developed. It takes a few minutes and tells you something genuinely useful about where your energy body is most active, and where it might be asking for attention.

The key is to answer from the body, not the mind. When you respond from felt experience rather than what you think you should say, the results have a way of landing somewhere true.

It's free. No signup required. Give it a go and let me know what comes up for you.

Take this free quiz to discover which chakra is calling you through the tarot. 14 questions, 3 minutes, no tarot experience needed.

10/06/2026

There's a question I've been asking for forty-five years.

In the treatment room. In workshops. In private sessions. I ask it when someone turns over a card and goes quiet. I ask it when someone tells me they're stuck.

"Where in your body do you feel it?"

Nine times out of ten, they can answer immediately. A tightness in the chest. A warmth in the belly. Something unnamed, sitting at the base of the throat.

The body already knows what the mind is still trying to figure out.

This is what drew me to combine Tarot with the energy body. The cards aren't just images to interpret. They're mirrors for what's already happening inside you. When you sit with a card and feel your way into it rather than thinking your way through it, something entirely different opens up.

That felt sense is the foundation of everything Philip Carr-Gomm and I teach in The Energy Body in Tarot. Not theory first. Body first. Then the framework follows.

Overview What You'll Learn Syllabus Instructors Live Q&As FAQ Enroll Now The Energy Body in Tarot A Guided Practice Through the Seven Chakras with Philip Ca

10/05/2026

Hello

Here's a link to the excellent podcast of Kevin Pennell 'Toward A Better Life', which I was privileged to appear on recently. The episode is now live!

Blessings
Steve

Episode 172 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell 0:00:00 Episode Preview 0:00:53 Eldur - By Hem Netjer (Used with Permission) 0:06:27 Episode Opening: The podcast that features like-minded people sharing stories, ideas, and activities, on what we can do to generate a Better Life individually and....

02/02/2026

NEW TAROT GROUP - THE SEEKERS QUEST - STARTS 26.02.26

An experiential journey through the Major Arcana of the Tarot. This unique group will focus on one card in each meeting with a variety of exercises, inner work, discussion and ongoing reflection. This gives you the opportunity to take your own ‘Journey of The Fool’ learning what you need to know and experience along the way.

No previous experience with the Tarot is necessary though a basic familiarity with the structure of the Tarot is helpful. You will need your own Tarot pack – any one is fine but not an oracle deck.

Meeting are held by Zoom usually on the fourth Thursday each month, from 7 – 9pm UK time. Payment is made monthly in advance to book your place. Cost is £10 per month. Meetings will be recorded should you have to miss a meeting. Numbers are limited to allow for full participation.

The Group is hosted by Tarot creator, author and tutor Steve Hounsome who has over 45 years’ experience working with the cards.

Please get in touch to book your place or if you would like any further information.

The first meeting will take place on THURSDAY 26TH FEBRUARY, 7-9 PM UK TIME
I look forward to seeing you there.

12/01/2026

Greetings!

What if the cards you already love could become a tool for real, gentle healing?

My fellow Tarot creator Steve Hounsome discovered this when some years ago he received a cancer diagnosis. As a result of the healing he experienced, he has spent the last two years delving into this question - how can we use the Tarot in the most effective way to help us heal?

If this interests you, do please join Steve and I for a webinar, where he and I will talk about this in depth. He will tell his story and share an exercise with us, and we’ll talk about the course we’ve developed on how to use the Tarot for healing and self-development.

Here’s the link for the webinar which will be showing from 5pm GMT this Thursday 15th January:

https://youtu.be/Z8gfBzrkR4A
If you can’t wait, you can also explore the course today:

https://philipcarr-gomm.teachable.com/p/tarot-therapy-training

But do come along to the webinar too – we’d love to share this information with you.

We’ll be in the Live Chat to answer your questions in real time.
Warmly,

How to use the Tarot for Healing. LAUNCHING 15 JANUARY 2026. Special Pre-Launch Offer available now.

09/01/2026

Hello

I am very pleased to be able to announce the publication of my new book 'Tarot for Living and Dying'.

Here is the 'blurb' about it below, but it can be summarised by saying that it shows you how to use the Tarot to help you face death and by doing so, truly come to Life.

It is available from Amazon now, in paperback, Kindle and
audiobook formats. Plese search for it under the title and you should find it ok.

Love and Blessings
Steve

Motivated by a direct confrontation with his own mortality following an incurable cancer diagnosis, the author responded by turning to the Tarot, something he did previously in a time of unexpected trauma, which resulted in his previous work ‘Tarot for Grief’, associated to this book.

This book contains a personal and objective exploration of working with the Tarot to face and embrace death, whether this is perceived to be near or far and as a result, Live! Neither morbid nor morose in its approach and outlook, this book shows you how to use the Tarot to move beyond the fatalistic acceptance of dying and open yourself to a shining and resplendent life, irrespective of your situation and circumstance.

Inspired by a re-reading of the classic Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, this book shows you how the Tarot can lead you to Live fully, whilst accepting the inevitability of your death with equanimity.
Different perspectives on dying are explored through the lens of the Tarot, coupled with practical techniques and a card by card guide, resulting in a unique, life-enhancing use of the Tarot.

28/12/2025

Just to mention my new book, coming in January to an Amazon near you!