AUTHOR'S NOTE: I'm indebted to a fellow r/tarot contributor for expanding my vocabulary of exclamatory responses to the surprising things I encounter in tarot readings (although this one may be more routine than exceptional and will understandably evoke a dismissive "Ehh"). We've all heard of the "Aha!" moment, the instant during a reading when an … Continue reading The “So What?” Moment
Tarot Readings
Another Missing Person Case and A Fascinating Convergence
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I won't go into the anecdotal details of this missing person case, but I wanted to mention the fact that three different assessments of the situation - a revealing horary astrology projection and two tarot readings - produced remarkably consistent results. A teenager has been missing for nearly two years and the search … Continue reading Another Missing Person Case and A Fascinating Convergence
Syncretic Cartomancy: A Threefold Divination*
*Syncretism: The union of different practices whose features may be synchronized to good effect. AUTHOR'S NOTE: In the past I have occasionally dabbled in two-phase readings using cards from different disciplines in a single spread, usually tarot and Lenormand or an oracle deck. As I spend more time and effort looking into traditional cartomancy while … Continue reading Syncretic Cartomancy: A Threefold Divination*
Lunar Month Look-Ahead for August-September 2023*
* This reading is for the lunar month beginning on the New Moon of August 16, not the calendar month of August. AUTHOR'S NOTE: In this reading I'm incorporating the most recent changes to the Lunar Month Look-Ahead spread that I've developed over the last few years. It reflects both an update to my lunar-month … Continue reading Lunar Month Look-Ahead for August-September 2023*
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
Harmony’s End: A Lenormand Perspective
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is a grim subject that may distress some readers. I have a number of Lenormand and tarot essays stacking up in the queue but I wanted to get this one out while the topic is still current. As a follow-up to my recent post on the use of the Lenormand oracle for … Continue reading Harmony’s End: A Lenormand Perspective
Rethinking the “Four Winds” Spread
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I've come across examples of the "Four Winds" spread in more than one publication. Its premise is that the classical "winds" that blow from the four quarters of the Earth can be equated to the four aspects of the human psyche, Spiritual, Intellectual, Emotional and Physical. (The inspiration for "rethinking" this spread came … Continue reading Rethinking the “Four Winds” Spread
Gap Analysis: The Three-Card Reading and the Hidden Agenda
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I'm not much of a fan of the three-card tarot reading because, as I've mentioned before, it leaves too much up to subjective guesswork in bridging the narrative gap between cards that may have nothing even remotely in common. In the three-card pull, utterly antagonistic cards are the intuitive reader's worst nightmare since … Continue reading Gap Analysis: The Three-Card Reading and the Hidden Agenda
A French Cross Experiment: The Summer Solstice and the Birthday Boy
Since the Summer Solstice is also my birthday, I decided to experiment with the French Cross spread (tirage en croix) that I just learned a few things about. Because both of these events are kind of a "big deal" (one globally - or at least in the Northern Hemisphere - and the other personally) I … Continue reading A French Cross Experiment: The Summer Solstice and the Birthday Boy
The Magical Tarot of the Golden Dawn – A Deck Interview
This is Pat Zalewski's much-anticipated take on the Golden Dawn tarot. Its main selling point is that it is hyped as being faithful to the color scales of the Order, while in a less beguiling sense it looks remarkably like a color-corrected, minor artistic overhaul of the graphics created by Robert Wang in collaboration with … Continue reading The Magical Tarot of the Golden Dawn – A Deck Interview
Parsifal's Wheel Tarot & Astrology 