“It’s just ol’ Luke, and Luke’s waitin’ on the Judgement Day”
– from The Weight by The Band

For my 400^th consecutive daily post and 2,407^th entry in the last eight years, I decided to briefly ponder the subject of “legacy.” I realize that in this era of “New Tarot” revisionism such considerations are felt to be irrelevant as its proponents forge an alternate paradigm that is indifferent to pedigree. Someone once called me an “unswerving traditionalist,” which is not entirely accurate since I love to experiment within the established envelope, but it’s close enough to the truth for my purpose here.

When I returned to active tarot practice after early retirement at 62, I began organizing my thoughts into a mass of material that captured my early exposure to the likes of Gareth Knight, William Gray, Dion Fortune, Israel Regardie, Paul Foster Case and, most notably, Aleister Crowley. For six years my platform for discussing this information was the Aeclectic Tarot forum but, when Solandia disbanded it in 2017, we were all cut loose and thrown back on our own resources. Many landed in the Tarot, Tea & Me forum, which is still active, but I chose to start my own blog.

My goal has always been to keep myself engaged (and entertained) by examining all aspects of classical and modern prognostication and its contemporary modes of deployment that strike my fancy, principally tarot, Lenormand, horary astrology, I Ching, geomancy, playing-card divination, lithomancy, etc, in decreasing order of importance to my personal development, along with various “mixed-media” applications of two or more of them in a single predictive model.

Although I always wrote “for the moment,” I had one eye on producing a body of work that would stand the test of time, given that I was building it on a solid historical foundation in esoteric metaphysics (except, of course, for the occasional curmudgeonly rant that was entirely my own opinion stemming from my aversion to the commercially-driven parody that once fresh-faced “New Age” enthusiasm had degenerated into over the decades since my initial involvement in 1972). The first five or six years of this output was assembled into several e-books (available on Lulu), but the range of the newer material has expanded considerably since that time and I don’t plan on publishing any more compilations.

Now I’m “older than dirt” (although Clint Eastwood still has a couple of decades on me) and figured it’s time to summarize what I’ve been up to in case it comes to a crashing halt one of these days. Roughly 80% of the essays are tarot-related (that’s a guess, I haven’t calculated), running in scope from its Renaissance emergence as presently configured to its modern Golden-Dawn-derived eminence, and sprinkled with the occasional book and deck review (although the former typically feed my “idea-mill,” and the latter steer clear of the explosion of recent creations that are frequently devoid of recognizable symbolism). Another ~10% are Lenormand-based, while a further ~10% cover horary-astrology-related topics; the remaining fraction can be safely consigned to the “bug-dust” subclass of random observation.

The most valuable tools for navigating this wilderness of subject matter are the “Categories” drop-down menu and the “sort-by-date” arrangement in the monthly roll-ups, both on the side-bar of my WordPress homepage.