Tom Benjamin

Tom Benjamin is your friendly neighborhood fortune teller! He’s been reading tarot and teaching divination for more than twenty years, and has written the popular indie titles Tarot on Earth and Your Tarot Toolkit (2017)With equal experience in adult learning theory, he also builds live online workshops—sandboxes, really—where the tarot pro and try-curious newbie can experiment with techniques designed to challenge preconceptions about divination and help readers find their individual styles, voices, and ethical boundaries. On YouTube, he’s hosted beloved tutorials on everything from building narrative in readings to exploring each of the majors through the lens of modern culture. A reader of bones, lenormand, and sibilla, Tom’s true love is tarot and aims to simultaneously elevate and bring it down to earth—and to take you along for the ride. Explore weekly lessons on tarot from tarot in his blog, “The Fool’s Journal.” Say hi online and find more info about booking Tom for readings, events, classes, or seminars: www.tombenjamintarot.com. @tombenjamintarot on Instagram. 

The Modern Fortune Teller's Field Guide
$29.95

Historically, fortune tellers have always stood on the margins of society and been villainized by the Christo-Colonial powers that view divination as competition. The Modern Fortune Teller’s Field Guide takes a contemporary and engaged approach to divination, with a strong focus on social responsibility. Because fortune tellers can see the world as it is, we serve as a threat to structures that benefit from secrecy.

The Modern Fortune Teller’s Field Guide is an essential guide to anyone seeking theory and history alongside divinatory knowledge. Though anyone today can pick up a pack of tarot cards or begin casting bones, fortune tellers have a responsibility in taking up that work to consider not only the forebears who suffered for that art—but also to understand the systems of oppression that impact our clients. We must understand that spiritually bypassing a client’s reality is not only ineffective but cruel.

Check out the first page of each chapter here!

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-964537-02-3 | Page Count: 210 | Dimensions: 7" x 10"

Format: Paperback Publication Date: 10/7/2025