My name is Erica Phillips, a priestess of the Goddess and a solitary practitioner of traditional witchcraft. I have been reading tarot for the last 20 years. It is my calling to help others heal with tarot. I channel information with the help of my guides through mediumship and emotional empathic abilities, and I consider myself a modern mystic. This website is a second home for my experimental intuitive adventures from Substack. It is all deeply connected to the love of tarot, intuitive living, and its infinite possibility.
In 2006, I found a goddess temple for the divine feminine. My work with tarot deepened soon after in 2007 when I started my priestess path. I burned through trauma I had been experiencing through ritual, ceremony, honor, self-acceptance, forgiveness, sacred rage, and feminine empowerment. I saw everything clearly for what it truly was for the first time. Most of all, it led me on a lifelong path to healing. I never relented in confronting my shadow side when it reared its head over the years. Therapy, spiritual practices, and hypnosis have proved especially fruitful. It is not easy, and I am still not done.
Until 2023, tarot was my medium for insight for both myself and others. I never dreamed it would extend into other uses. That spring, I was challenged to write creatively by a friend. I had never attempted this before, although my academic years proved that I could write in a more formal manner with ease. It was terrifying to release my imagination and intuitive processes to the world. Thankfully, I was intrigued enough to give it a try after some thought on the matter. The process came natural to me with a shocking amount of positive feedback. Now, I am all in.
Naturally, as a new creative writer I went hunting for tools to help channel my imagination. Perusing my bookshelf, I spied a book I bought over twenty years prior, “Tarot for Writers”. Why did I buy this book if I was not a writer? Was a fleeting idea which passed soon after I bought it? It simply stayed on my shelf with all the other tarot books, and I didn’t give it another thought until that moment. It never occurred to me to use the tools I already had to help me with creative writing. Using tarot to write stories is not a new concept, but it was eye-opening to me. A game changer.
I immediately went to work on this new path of tarot work. My Substack was created, and the name came to me intuitively as I was filling out all the little boxes to create the page. It flowed through my typing fingers to the box with no forethought, The Experimental Intuitive. It represents the out-of-box methodology for tarot’s infinite possibility for writing and healing. I found books on writing the shadow, channeling creativity intuitively, and many more. I took copious notes when inspiration struck. It did not take long to develop my own ways of building plots for stories using tarot card spreads and intuition. I post all of my work on Substack and offer a 20% discount on readings for my subscribers.