I'm always seeking ethically sound (not to mention legal) ways to approach health questions, and lean toward a holistic - or "whole-health" - model rather than trying to literally "play doctor" in a narrow diagnostic way. I know next to nothing about Chinese medicine, but thought I would apply my recent contemplation of the Tajii … Continue reading A “Yin-and-Yang” Holistic Well-Being Spread
Health & Happiness Spreads
The “Road to Shambala” Self-Development Spread
"How does your light shineIn the halls of Shambala"Danny Moore, songwriter At its most basic, the tarot is a metaphysical tool (and art) of self-discovery and advancement in both a psychological and situational/motivational sense. I just picked up a quote from The Tao of Thoth that sums up this objective quite neatly: "You have to … Continue reading The “Road to Shambala” Self-Development Spread
Health Readings: A Psychosomatic View
Psychosomatic: (literally, mind [psyche] and body [soma] "willing to perform" [matos]); an adjective describing a physical illness or other condition caused or aggravated by a mental factor such as internal conflict or stress. In tarot circles it's generally acknowledged that attempting to divine someone's future medical condition in a diagnostic way is professionally and personally … Continue reading Health Readings: A Psychosomatic View
A “Threepenny Opera” Example Reading: Arm Surgery
My wife recently fell and fractured both bones of her forearm near the wrist. They're calling it an "unstable" fracture that will require two plates to be inserted into her arm; that surgery is scheduled for today. I performed my "Threepenny Opera" multi-deck selection method to a three-card line asking about the outcome of the … Continue reading A “Threepenny Opera” Example Reading: Arm Surgery
A Best Case/Worst Case “Offset” Example Reading
I know someone who suffers from a disabling physical condition that isn't eligible for surgery, and who hasn't responded all that well to less-invasive conventional treatments. I asked what the "best-case" and "worst-case" predictions look like for this person. I used the Albano-Waite deck without reversals for the reading. In the "best-case" row, the two … Continue reading A Best Case/Worst Case “Offset” Example Reading
COVID-19 “Health & Wellness” Reading
Since it appears that we will be avoiding public contact until sometime in May due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I thought I would do a "health and wellness" reading to see what this means for my personal state of physical and mental fitness. I used my "All Well and Good, But . . ." spread … Continue reading COVID-19 “Health & Wellness” Reading
Health & Happiness: A Knee-Injury Reading
For the last six weeks I've been suffering from a moderately debilitating knee injury. As near as I can tell from my research, it seems to be patellar tendonitis, perhaps bordering on tendonopathy. I've struggled with it from time to time while skiing and jogging over the last fifteen years, occasionally experiencing sharp pain right … Continue reading Health & Happiness: A Knee-Injury Reading
The “Measure of a Man” Personality Profile Spread
Back in my early 20's, before I discovered Monty Python, I was a big fan of the Bonzo Dog Band, the British "novelty" act headed by the brilliant eccentric Vivien Stanshall. They were fond of sticking an occasional non-sequitur into the middle of their album tracks. In one, a band member piped up with "And … Continue reading The “Measure of a Man” Personality Profile Spread
The “Onion of Revealing” Situational Well-being Spread
It does look a bit like an onion, doesn't it? But the idea behind the title is that situational well-being in any state of affairs can have both an "inner" and an "outer" dimension, with the reader's task being to peel back the layers to get at the heart of the matter. Something that seems … Continue reading The “Onion of Revealing” Situational Well-being Spread
“Look, Ma . . . No Hands!” (A Five-Card Experiment)
I decided to put my somewhat feeble line reading skills to a test in two different ways, asking the same question of two decks and using a pre-positioned topic card in one of the spreads. I used the Blue Owl for the unstructured line and the Piatnik for the pre-arranged one. The question was "What is … Continue reading “Look, Ma . . . No Hands!” (A Five-Card Experiment)
Parsifal's Wheel Tarot & Astrology 