Practice
What develops here, why the space exists, and how relational work meets The COMPASS Method™.
The Deck Compass™
About
Founder context, credibility, and the relationship between Deck Compass and Tides of Knowing.
The Deck Compass™ is where The COMPASS Method™ is practised – a grounded, relational space for tarot and oracle readers building interpretive confidence, symbolic pattern recognition, and honest language under real conditions. It is infrastructure for serious, sustained practice.
Founder
Leigh Spencer
I'm Leigh Spencer – fourth-generation Matakite, a Māori term for those who carry inherited sight. Not a title worn for show. A lineage, and a responsibility.
The work here comes out of forty-plus years with the cards and thirty years as a working journalist – two disciplines that shaped how I think about clarity, precision, and what it means to follow what you are actually perceiving.
The journalist in me disciplines the intuitive. The intuitive reads what facts alone cannot touch. Neither is privileged. Both serve the same thing: clarity you can act on.
Ecosystem
Tides of Knowing™
Tides of Knowing™ is the wider field – editorial, perceptual, and philosophical. It holds the questions and cultural context in which serious symbolic work makes sense.
The Deck Compass™ is the hands-on companion: where method becomes practice, journaling holds continuity, and readers develop capability, not just information. One clarifies the field; the other gives the work somewhere to land.
Ecosystem contact: hello@tidesofknowing.com
Explore the work
Each section answers a different question – together they describe how the companion functions.
Method
How preparation, interpretive work, reflection, and journalling form a practice rhythm.
Training
Staged reader development, thoughtful cohorts, and careful onboarding as capability deepens over time.
Ethics
Editorial principles, ethical boundaries, and the standard we hold in symbolic work.
Trust
Privacy and data minimisation are load-bearing commitments. Read the full commitment on Privacy.
Contact
Questions, founder enquiries, or a simple hello – you are welcome to reach out.
For a dedicated contact page with alternate email and follow-along notes, see Contact.