🌈 Animism in Action: Interviewing Two Rainbow Moon Tarot Decks with Two Souls

Some decks arrive in your life quietly — and then become everything.

For us, that deck is the Rainbow Moon Tarot by Samantha West. We’ve come to call her The Rainbow Healer, a nickname born from the way she reads: gently powerful, emotionally attuned, and full of quiet insight.

Cat had been using her copy every day, drawing morning cards for Racquel as part of a shared daily ritual. The messages were consistently sharp, soft, and soul-deep — and the connection only grew stronger. Eventually, Racquel felt so drawn to the deck’s energy that she got her own.

Same deck. Same creator.

But when we sat down to interview them separately — something became very clear.

They were not the same.

This is animism in action: the belief that every object, being, or tool contains its own spirit. That relationship shapes resonance. That even two decks from the same print run can hold wildly different presences — because they’re not just things. They’re beings.

🔮 The Interview Spread

We asked each deck the same seven questions:

1. What energy do you lead with?

2. What are your greatest strengths?

3. When shouldn’t I come to you?

4. What are you ready to teach?

5. How can we best learn and collaborate?

6. What’s the potential outcome of our working relationship?

7. What do you like about me as a tarot reader?

No peeking. No influencing. Just sitting with each deck, listening. Feeling. Witnessing.

🌿 Racquel’s Rainbow Healer

A steady heart. A soft mirror. A guide who tends to your growth.

• Leads with: Strength — Healing through courage and kindness.

• Strengths: Four of Crystals — Grounding, stability, safe space.

• Limitations: Five of Daggers — Doesn’t sugarcoat; confronts denial.

• Teaches: Nine of Cups reversed — Real joy isn’t performance.

• Best collaboration: Knight of Daggers reversed — Slow down and listen.

• Loves about Racquel: The Fool reversed — Brave, but mindful.

• (No outcome card drawn — an open road.)

This Rainbow Healer meets Racquel with calm. She’s present but never overwhelming. She holds space, reflects truth, and encourages emotional restoration through stillness. Her power is quiet, but firm.

🖤 Cat’s Rainbow Healer

A shadow-walker. A truth-sifter. A liberator disguised as a guide.

• Leads with: Five of Pentacles reversed — Offering light in isolation.

• Strengths: The Lovers + Two of Pentacles — Navigating duality and alignment.

• Limitations: Seven of Wands — Won’t connect through defensiveness.

• Teaches: High Priestess reversed — Reclaim your hidden knowing.

• Best collaboration: The Devil reversed — Liberation begins with release.

• Outcome: The Emperor — Building structure and sovereignty.

• Loves about Cat: Ace of Cups — Leads with emotional depth.

This Rainbow Healer is bolder, more unflinching. She doesn’t just witness — she challenges. She draws you toward your own shadow and reminds you that freedom begins at the edge of honesty. Her presence isn’t soft, but it is healing.

🌕 Two Spirits, One Name - and a Shared Soulprint

These Rainbow Healers may feel different, but their core remains deeply aligned.

• They both lead with emotional honesty.

  Whether it’s through courage (Strength) or recovery (Five of Pentacles reversed), both decks begin with care — a desire to bring you back to yourself gently, even if the path looks different.

• They both value truth.

  Neither tolerates avoidance for long. One cuts through denial (Five of Daggers), the other won’t engage if you’re armored (Seven of Wands). They may have different thresholds, but both insist on realness.

• They both teach integrity in joy.

  The Nine of Cups reversed reminds Racquel not to perform happiness. The High Priestess reversed pushes Cat to hear her inner truth. Both are about shedding illusions and remembering who you are.

• They both want collaboration, not control.

  Knight of Daggers reversed asks for stillness. Devil reversed asks for freedom. In both, the message is: meet me in truth, not force.

• They both see the reader’s heart.

  Whether it’s The Fool reversed (brave and measured) or Ace of Cups (open-hearted and deep), both decks reflect back our willingness to feel and to hold space for others.

Even in difference, they’re united by intention. The Rainbow Healer, in all her forms, is here for wholeness. She guides from within — not as an authority, but as a witness, a friend, a mirror.

🖋️ Try This Yourself

If you believe your decks have spirit — talk to them. Ask who they are. Ask how they work. Ask what they want from your relationship.

And if you and a friend share the same tarot deck? Interview them side by side. Witness the difference. See how a single deck archetype can bloom into multiple living expressions.

This is tarot as a living practice.

This is animism in action.