🌿 Velvet Roots: How the Velvet Familiar Tarot Revealed Its Taurus Heart

Imagine velvet dusk folding around you, the scent of candle wax and wild earth curling in the air, a hush that settles not in silence, but in sensation. Beneath your fingertips, the cards hum with a kind of living texture: soft, weighty, patient.

At first glance, the Velvet Familiar Tarot (Cats Rule the Earth Tarot) feels lush, tactile, and protective. A deck that invites you into a world of hushed devotion and earth-bound magic. But it wasn’t until much later I sat down and began working with this deck frequently that I truly understood the depth of its spirit, and I reflected on the first reading I did with the deck... An interview spread.

When asked to show its most important characteristic, the Velvet Familiar offered me The Hierophant. Now at first with the context of the other cards around I did take it as a stern preacher, but I came to know it as a quiet guardian of tradition and sacred wisdom. In tarot, the Hierophant is directly linked to Taurus, and with that reflection, it became clear: This deck doesn’t just feel like a Taurus Tarot Deck — it lives Taurus Energy.

Further, the interview reading upon a second look and the bond I had come to form with the deck, it's Taurus nature kept revealing itself:

• A deep loyalty to the long path, even when things get hard (Five of Pentacles).

• A focus on patient liberation, unbinding old ties with tenderness, not force (Devil reversed).

• A devotion to rest and reflection as sacred acts of healing (Four of Swords).

Velvet Familiar isn't here to dazzle or shock. It's here to root you. To bring you back into your body, your senses, your sacred routines. It moves like a vine around ancient stone: slow, deliberate, and enduring.

Learning Its Rhythm

At first, I mistook this deck’s energy for strict adherence to the book. A kind of rigid, structured reading that seemed to leave little room for intuition. It felt serious, almost ceremonial, and I wondered if it would confine my natural flow.

But the more time I spent with it, the more I realized: The Velvet Familiar isn’t rigid. It’s rooted.

It honours tradition not to limit, but to ground and to offer a sturdy scaffolding from which intuition can safely unfurl. Like Taurus itself, it reminds me that real magic isn’t rushed. It’s tended, nurtured, lived into.

Commitment to Steadiness

The cards have proven themselves to be deeply reliable, steady in their messages, grounded in their advice, never slipping into chaos or confusion. There’s a trustworthiness to the Velvet Familiar that mirrors Taurus’s greatest gifts: devotion, consistency, and slow, lasting magic.

To honour that bond, I’m committing to using this deck for all my daily readings this week. I want to root deeper into its rhythm, letting its soft but unshakable voice guide me into a slower, richer relationship with my practice.

Sometimes, the deepest magic isn’t in chasing newness, it’s in tending to what stays.