AUTHOR'S NOTE: Here is an attempt to predict environmental conditions, in the form of seasonal weather and related factors in Florida, a year in advance. I have two years of personal experience to go by, but that's probably no more reliable than an Old Farmer's Almanac long-range forecast. We've been fleeing the New England cold … Continue reading A Winter 2025 Vacation Prediction
Decision-making Spreads
Lottery-Ticket Tarot for the Win
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I decided to come up with a tarot-based approach for selecting the most favorable day(s) to buy weekly lottery tickets as a way to hopefully improve the probability of success. I don't gamble as a rule because, if I have a 50-50 chance of winning at any game of chance, I lose around … Continue reading Lottery-Ticket Tarot for the Win
Trump-Card Functionality: A Learning Exercise
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Here is a two-part learning exercise with a dual purpose - to study individual cards that have been giving us trouble during interpretation, and to examine their effects in combination with other cards as a way to better understand their practical functionality. This essay is a couple of months old and the narrative … Continue reading Trump-Card Functionality: A Learning Exercise
Lenormand at the Crossroads
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Despite the suggestive title, this essay is not a commentary on the "state of the art." It merely describes a creative way of using Lenormand for decision-making. I often encounter the opinion that reading "line" spreads of any length with the Lenormand cards is the least effective way to approach a complex question … Continue reading Lenormand at the Crossroads
The “Mandala of Revealing” Decision-Making Spread
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is another "mixed-media" spread that uses tarot cards and a single six-sided die as a "pointer." Instead of just posting the spread and following up with an example reading tomorrow, I combined the two in this post. (The images are from the Magical Tarot of the Golden Dawn by Pat Zelewski and … Continue reading The “Mandala of Revealing” Decision-Making Spread
“New Position” Gap-Analysis Spread
AUTHOR'S NOTE: One of the questions I encounter quite often on the web is whether anyone has a job-search or career-change spread to offer or recommend. I have several, but here I've created one that will be useful for any scenario where a current position must be compared to a proposed or potential new one. … Continue reading “New Position” Gap-Analysis Spread
A Multi-Path Elemental Decision-Making Spread
AUTHOR'S NOTE: In this spread, the card or cards that reflect the most cooperative elemental fit between the position and the card drawn will identify the most effective approach for dealing with a decision-making scenario.
High Priestess and Justice: The Quest for Perfection
AUTHOR'S NOTE: During my studies I often come across the opinion that the High Priestess and Justice display two faces of perfection, one natural and the other imposed. Although I'm mainly a Thoth and Tarot de Marseille guy, here I'm using the numerological structure of the Waite-Smith Major Arcana, which places Justice in the eleventh … Continue reading High Priestess and Justice: The Quest for Perfection
The Problem – and Power – of Projection
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I've approached the topic of "subjective bias" in different ways over the years, most notably in my essay The Nature of the Evidence. In The Way of Tarot, Alejandro Jodorowsky observes that - despite vehement claims to the contrary - it is impossible for tarot readers to eliminate "projection" from their readings (that … Continue reading The Problem – and Power – of Projection
A “Fork in the Road” Supplemental Outcome Spread
As a rule, I have no use for "clarifying" cards since I think they can encourage laziness in not trying very hard to get our head around the original pull if we don't like it or can't immediately understand it. (My motto in this regard is "More is not necessarily better.") But sometimes I will … Continue reading A “Fork in the Road” Supplemental Outcome Spread
Parsifal's Wheel Tarot & Astrology 