Somewhere in the dim and distant past I encountered the idea that astrology represents the "gold key" to unlocking visions of the future through divination, in that it is objective and rational (that is, based on visible phenomena), while the more subjective and intuitive tarot provides the "silver key." I can no longer find the … Continue reading The “Keys to the Kingdom”
General Tarot
Numerological and Archetypal Counterparts: A Visual Tableau
I decided to turn my previous post on trump-card counterparts into a graphic display. In addition to visually aligning the cards according to their numerical and archetypal values (both natural and derived), this tableau allows for drawing more imaginative correlations between cards that answer to the same number. In the case of the court and … Continue reading Numerological and Archetypal Counterparts: A Visual Tableau
The Role of Psychism
At its heart, the act of reading the tarot cards (especially for others) is a psychic one, even though we insist that we "just read the cards, not minds." The reader's goal is to solve Winston Churchill's "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma" that obscures the querent's future, the key to which is … Continue reading The Role of Psychism
