Confessions, Community, and What Tarot Readers Really Think
Today we’re turning the spotlight on Bex, one of the Live Track presenters for StaarCon 6 and StaarCon 6 Virtual. Bex, whose full name is Rebecca Jones, is a tarot reader, psychic, and evidential medium based in London, UK. Her path to making her practice public is not the most conventional one, which is perhaps exactly why it resonates with so many people. She was raised as a Mormon, earned an MBA, and had built a life that looked nothing like a tarot reader’s. Then her brother passed away unexpectedly, and everything shifted. She turned toward the spiritual gifts she had set aside, returned to the spirit communications that had visited her since childhood, and decided it was time to stop keeping her tarot work a secret.
Bex has been reading tarot for over twenty years, though she only began reading publicly in recent years. Her approach is warm, conversational, and firmly grounded. She describes tarot as a universal language and an interactive conversation, one that does not happen to us but with us and for us. On her website she is cheerfully clear that she cannot read minds, predict lottery numbers, or locate missing earrings, though she does suggest checking behind the sofa. This kind of candor is characteristic of how she moves through the tarot world: seriously engaged with the craft, and refreshingly honest about what it is and is not.
Confessions of a Tarot Reader
In 2024, Bex launched her podcast, Confessions of a Tarot Reader, described as a love letter to the tarot community and the tarot-curious. Her goal was to create a friendly, behind-the-scenes space where tarot readers could compare notes and where people new to tarot could understand what the experience is actually like. Topics she covers include how to prepare for a first reading, how often is too often to come back for another one, what readers are really thinking when a client returns with questions about an ex, toxic clients and toxic readers, and how to tap into your own intuition to read for yourself.
By the time she arrives at StaarCon 6, Bex will have spoken with more than seventy fellow tarot readers for the podcast. That body of conversation is the foundation of her presentation, and it gives her something genuinely useful to bring to the room: not theory, but the actual, lived experience of a community talking honestly about its own practice. The podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and most other major platforms. You can also find it at buzzsprout.com/2383306.
What is she bringing to StaarCon 6?
On Saturday, October 3rd at 3:15 pm on the Live Track, Bex is presenting Confessions of a Tarot Reader. The session is built on everything she has gathered through those seventy-plus conversations, and it promises to be one of the more candid and community-oriented presentations of the weekend.
She will share what she has learned about the quiet assumptions readers often make about how others practice, the ways those assumptions can create distance or misunderstanding within the community, and what happens when they are surfaced and examined. She will also explore the potential and the real pain points of social media and artificial intelligence for tarot readers, and where our tarot ecosystem might be headed next.
Beyond the community landscape, Bex plans to look at insights emerging from the intersection of tarot and clinical therapeutic practice, where readers are finding creative inspiration these days, and the perhaps surprising question of how often tarot readers actually get readings for themselves. It is the kind of session that invites the whole room into a conversation rather than simply delivering information, and that spirit of open dialogue is exactly what the podcast has always been about.
The presentation will also be streamed live on StaarCon 6 Virtual through StaarCast.com, so if you cannot be in Palm Beach Gardens in person, you can still be part of the conversation.
About Bex
Bex is a tarot reader, psychic, and evidential medium based in London, UK, with more than twenty years of experience with the cards. She is the host of the podcast Confessions of a Tarot Reader and offers readings for clients around the world through bextarot.com. You can follow her on Instagram at @bex_tarot.
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