AUTHOR'S NOTE: I've been getting a bit bombastic lately, so here is a "palate-cleanser." I often employ both tarot cards and dice in what I call mixed-media readings. While I use the odd-and-even faces of the dice mainly as binary "pointers" in multi-path spreads to indicate which of two or more series of cards should … Continue reading Blended Trends: Card-Wrangling with Dice
Experimental Methods
The “Cross-and-Square of Becoming” – A Force-and-Form Situational Awareness Spread
AUTHOR'S NOTE:: This spread was inspired by the discussion of the Chinese Lo Shu Square in Benebell Wen's Holistic Tarot, but I've taken it in a different direction. The objective is to first read the "force-and-form" axes from top-to-bottom and left-to-right, respectively to see how the situation will develop when unaffected by "big-picture" environmental concerns. … Continue reading The “Cross-and-Square of Becoming” – A Force-and-Form Situational Awareness Spread
NFL Football: Patriots at Seahawks, September 9, 2026
UPDATE: It looks like the Seahawks found the pulse of all those reversed trump cards after all. The only thing I can say about this reading - other than that I'm getting better at "hedging" - is that the final point spread was within range of the predicted single touchdown, although on the wrong side. … Continue reading NFL Football: Patriots at Seahawks, September 9, 2026
A Tarot Card-Counting Tableau
AUTHOR'S NOTE: After a long spell pursuing other divination-related interests, I've returned to reading Benebell Wen's Holistic Tarot and was just examining her card-counting approach to populating spreads. She uses the Golden Dawn technique from the "Opening of the Key" method, but I find it counterintuitive so I decided to create my own based loosely … Continue reading A Tarot Card-Counting Tableau
The Numerical Essence Card as “Force Majeure”
AUTHOR'S NOTE: An assumption that goes all the way back to my first exposure to tarot literature in Eden Gray's 1960 book, The Tarot Revealed, is that the Major Arcana normally identify significant external events that are beyond the querent's control. At one time my own definition was that they describe consequential influences that the … Continue reading The Numerical Essence Card as “Force Majeure”
Diverging Paths: A “Detour-and-Intersection” Spread
AUTHOR'S NOTE: The typical way to read a line spread is as an unbroken sequence from one end to the other. I've found that this approach does not always reflect the "redirection" that can be caused by reversal of any of the cards. Here I'm proposing that reversal can cause a detour along the way, … Continue reading Diverging Paths: A “Detour-and-Intersection” Spread
The “Peaks-and-Valleys” Landscape: A Five-Card Reading Matrix
AUTHOR'S NOTE: The most common way to read a tarot line spread is as an unbroken flow of cards from left-to-right (and typically from past to future) with occasional "bumps in the road" caused by less-fortunate or reversed cards. In my own practice, I first examine the whole layout, looking for peaks and valleys of … Continue reading The “Peaks-and-Valleys” Landscape: A Five-Card Reading Matrix
The “Exploded” Tarot Reading: Expanding the Narrative
AUTHOR'S NOTE: In previous posts I've explored different ways to tell "the rest of the story" when the cards pulled for the original spread don't produce a meaningful outcome. Here is another one. (I almost never rely on clarifiers, preferring a supplemental reading that picks up where the first one left off.) The spread uses … Continue reading The “Exploded” Tarot Reading: Expanding the Narrative
Balancing the Equation: A “Two Sides to Every Story” Spread
AUTHOR'S NOTE: The prior experiences a seeker brings to a tarot session are often exceedingly complex. Promises of favorable conditions are turning out "too good to be true" while those that warned of misfortune now appear to be "not half as bad as they seemed;" in the most challenging cases the two are mingled This … Continue reading Balancing the Equation: A “Two Sides to Every Story” Spread
The Numerical Essence Card as “Vaulting Over Limitations”
AUTHOR'S NOTE: After taking a long detour into the psionic research of Dr. Dean Radin as applied to divination, I've returned to reading Benebell Wen's Holistic Tarot. I just encountered a three-card example reading in the book that I felt deserved a more carefully-considered analysis. The reading was for an aggressive Aries male who was … Continue reading The Numerical Essence Card as “Vaulting Over Limitations”
Parsifal's Wheel Tarot & Astrology 