Natalie Hasselbank

Natalie was handed her first tarot deck as a child and has never stopped reading, which by now means a long acquaintance with the same seventy-eight cards: shuffling them, laying them out and arguing with them. She writes the journal's tarot pieces: the deck's structure, the spreads, the history, and the parts of the practice she thinks are overclaimed.

The other half of her writing is the sky itself. Stars fascinate her, and she means the physical ones: how they form, how they die, where to stand to see them and what you are looking at when you do. Her stargazing, sky-event and deep-sky posts come from that, and she is happy to keep the astronomy and the astrology in separate rooms.

Natalie Hasselbank is a pen name. She writes privately, and her idea of a good night is a long trail, a clear sky and no phone signal.

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