During my long career as a technical and legal writer, my personal goal was to explain complex matters in comprehensive but still entirely lucid language, since to do otherwise could have led to serious human error and/or regulatory exposure for my company. These objectives would seem to be at odds, since completeness and clarity may … Continue reading A Question of Style
Month: August 2019
“Assume the Position”
Those who have been in the military may remember this command, but here I'm repurposing it in divinatory rather than disciplinary terms. I'd wager that most diviners don't think too much about the "mechanics" of their readings once they settle into a groove. Many of the subtle touches we apply to our reading space become … Continue reading “Assume the Position”
A Gun-Control Projection
Bin this one in the "If I Were to Hazard a Guess . . ." idle-speculation bucket. There isn't a more emotional and contentious political "hot-button" issue in the United States right now than gun control. I decided to apply my "Two Paths You Can Go By" spread to explore which way Congress and President … Continue reading A Gun-Control Projection
Any Way You Slice It
I was just on Pinterest looking at tips for topical reading (that is, divination based on the general "fortune-telling" subjects of love, money, work, health, etc), which I belatedly realized are just variations on the Lost Man Spread. A card is pre-selected as "Significator" to represent the topic of interest, but it is left in … Continue reading Any Way You Slice It
The Party of the Third Part
It's time to visit the subject of "third party readings" once again. An eternal topic of discussion on the tarot forums is whether it's ethical to perform readings about someone who isn't present or who hasn't consented to examination of their affairs. There is a broad span of professional opinion on this, ranging from "it's … Continue reading The Party of the Third Part
“I Yam What I Yam . . .”
". . . and dat's all what I yam!" (In the immortal words of Popeye the Sailor Man.) I came across a neat bit of wisdom on Andy Boroveshengra's blog Fortuna's Picturebook that I'm going to borrow for the theme of this post: "Cards are never something else before they are themselves." https://abcartomancy.blogspot.com/2019/07/shall-i-compare-thee.html Andy was … Continue reading “I Yam What I Yam . . .”
The “Skeleton in the Closet” Chain-of-Destiny Spread
I firmly believe that few momentous events in a human life occur in a vacuum, however random or unprecedented they may seem to be. On a personal, interpersonal or trans-personal level, there was almost always something in the past that set the individual up for the experience, whether it was a sin of commission or … Continue reading The “Skeleton in the Closet” Chain-of-Destiny Spread
A “Hidden Agenda” Developmental Insight Reading
I was recently asked by someone to perform a reading to answer whether a person they are involved with has a "hidden agenda." (This is not a romantic situation.) It so happens that I have a spread specifically for this scenario, and I don't often get a chance to use it. https://parsifalswheeldivination.wordpress.com/2018/08/01/the-hidden-agenda-developmental-insight-spread/ The querent suspects … Continue reading A “Hidden Agenda” Developmental Insight Reading
What Happened to Linda? – A Missing Person Case Closure
Linda Minery had been missing from Hillsboro, NH since April of this year, and was just found deceased inside a storage unit that she rented in that town. https://www.concordmonitor.com/Hillsboro-NH-missing-woman-s-body-found-in-storage-unit-27394864 Several things stand out from the reading I did on April 9: https://parsifalswheeldivination.wordpress.com/2019/04/09/what-happened-to-linda-a-missing-person-spread/ This was the instance that caused me to consider whether the stipulation in … Continue reading What Happened to Linda? – A Missing Person Case Closure
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