Along with requests for financial and legal advice, health questions of a diagnostic type are best avoided by the tarot professional. With rare exceptions, we aren't trained and credentialed (or licensed, or insured) counselors or therapists, and should direct our clients to someone who is. On the other hand, as long as we stop short … Continue reading “All Well and Good, But . . .”
Tarot Opinion
Why Not Professional?
"Money for nothing and your pips for free" (with apologies to Mark Knopfler). A professional is anyone who performs services for pay and hopefully makes a living at it. A tarot reader who accepts payment for readings is by definition a professional. A tarot reader who reads on-line while still in pajamas could be called … Continue reading Why Not Professional?
Local vs. Remote Reading – A Rant
As an old-school face-to-face tarot reader, I'm quite leery of the validity of conducting readings over the internet. I finally worked my way around to something I can live with, which is having my remote clients pull their own cards and tell me the order of the draw so I can perform the reading. I … Continue reading Local vs. Remote Reading – A Rant
“Cheap Shots” #2: Intuit This!
"I don't need no steenkin' books! My intuition sees all." (Alternatively, "I talk to angels.") Frankly, as a story-teller, if all I gave my Muse to work with was my presumptive groping after what I vaguely supposed the people in the cards might be up to within the context of the reading, she would run … Continue reading “Cheap Shots” #2: Intuit This!
Astrologically Rethinking the Major Arcana
If you're like me, you don't swallow every spoonful of generally-accepted wisdom that's pushed at you; at least you take a sniff first, and if it doesn't pass the "sniff test" (never mind the "giggle test"), you are wary of ingesting it. So it is with me regarding the astrological correspondences given to the Major … Continue reading Astrologically Rethinking the Major Arcana
“Cheap Shots” #1
"Tarot is the new "blind date" for the emotionally timorous, without the trepidation of actually having to follow through. It's safe, it's not emotionally messy and it doesn't require nerve or opportunity." In my curmudgeonly way , I have a large store of acerbic observations about the world of tarot as we presently know it. … Continue reading “Cheap Shots” #1
Rules of Engagement
I often participate in on-line debates about the legal risks inherent in reading the cards for pay in a public setting. Some localities in the US have anti-fortune-telling statutes that force readers to offer their services “for entertainment only.” But there is a broader set of considerations regarding just how much protocol and structure we … Continue reading Rules of Engagement
Parsifal's Wheel Tarot & Astrology 