Hello beautiful blog readers!
I am so excited to ease back into my the Where We Are Now series from my time at Little Red Tarot. If you’re new to my blog or tarot writing in general, Little Red Tarot (or LRT) was a beautiful femme forward space where tons of queer, BIPOC, and disabled tarot & witchcraft writers not only got our start but made a very sweet little internet home together to discuss all of our favorite topics like social justice, witchcraft, tarot & the intersections therein.
Please note that this is A Project. There were a lot of us, and some of us are hard to track down. I know for sure I have interviews with Luke Dani Blue, Sabrina Scott, Siobhan & Cathou coming and I’m going to keep chipping away at getting the rest of us on here too. You can see my previous interviews with Beth, our founder, tarot & ritual visionary Asali & Siri, my dear friend and therefore the easiest interview to snag at the links behind their names.
Today we are hearing from the incredible Cathou. Cathou is a tarot writer that rocked me & my fat body to it’s core when she started speaking out about thinness as a default in tarot and urging us to consider how deserving fat bodies are too. To say I love Cathou’s tarot writing is an unbelievably small understatement. It is thought-provoking and empowering but it is also deeply kind, simply urging us to do better for ourselves and those around us.
This painting in the graphic is done by her partner Rose. Rose is endlessly talented and I’m so grateful to them as a couple for letting me use it here. Here’s Rose’s instagram. Believe me, you want to see it!
Now let’s hear where Cathou is these days in her own words!
Cathou, hello! Can you just let me readers know who you are and where you’re coming from today?
I’m Cathou. My pronouns are she/her. I live in Brussels, Belgium.
Great, welcome. What were you writing back in our LRT days?
I used to write a column called Fat Tarot. In this series, I proposed essays and poetry on embodiment and bodily representations in tarot.
Such a great column too. How has your work evolved since you started at LRT?
The LRT experience was a life-changing recognition of my work as an artist. Thanks to this, I keep on expanding my exploration of the tarot! I'm happy to express my passion through writing, visuals, and videos.
What are you up to now? Where can we find you?
When I wrote for LRT in 2018, I simultaneously embarked on a health diagnosis journey. I have not read tarot for others consistently since then. I focus first and foremost on finding my balance with chronic illness. I hope I will be able to share my tarot reading offerings soon.
In the meantime, I keep sharing about tarot in French (with occasional posts and videos in English) on my website and youtube channel. On the menu, I serve amongst other treasures: deep-dive explorations of tarot cards, a lot of poetry, devotions to Hekate, and fat activism, of course!
When I am not on a social media break, I write in English on my Instagram page.
Finally, I slowly work on a tarot deck with my wife RoseButch. To follow the advancement of our project, you can visit her page.
Tarot work at: www.cathoutarot.blog & https://www.youtube.com/c/CathouTarot/featured
Visuals and tarot work on Instagram:
Cathou: https://www.instagram.com/cathoutarot/
Rose: https://www.instagram.com/rose_butch/
Thanks so much Cathou! Always so wonderful to catch up with you!
