AUTHOR'S NOTE: There are numerous ways to decipher the significance of reversed cards in a tarot reading. Here is one that will perhaps have more universal applicability than some of the others I've explored. Tarot expert Paul Fenton-Smith has a unique take on reversed cards. His premise is that when a card appears upside-down in … Continue reading Reversal as Imbalance
Tarot Readings
A Winter 2025 Vacation Prediction
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Here is an attempt to predict environmental conditions, in the form of seasonal weather and related factors in Florida, a year in advance. I have two years of personal experience to go by, but that's probably no more reliable than an Old Farmer's Almanac long-range forecast. We've been fleeing the New England cold … Continue reading A Winter 2025 Vacation Prediction
The “Scattershot” Spread: Shotgunning the Tarot Reading
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I sometimes encounter people online who will only read a random cluster of cards with no formal spread positions. I've created a few layouts that embrace that kind of neutrality and here is the latest one, although it goes from scattered to structured in three operations. It owes its premise to two-thirds of … Continue reading The “Scattershot” Spread: Shotgunning the Tarot Reading
Ashley’s Disappearance: A Missing-Person Case Closure
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Ashley Turcotte, who went missing from Barnstead, NH in early January, was just found deceased in dense woods not far from where she was last seen. Here is the news release:https://patch.com/new-hampshire/concord-nh/missing-barnstead-found-dead-after-extensive-search-wooded-area?fbclid=IwAR0RZsQKJ1PTgsHDRC1DYhUcj-tRGOktdbu6gmWJ2QgM5wJjGnZmrv9Muik I performed three readings on this matter: a horary astrology forecast and two tarot readings. The horary reading, while indicating that she … Continue reading Ashley’s Disappearance: A Missing-Person Case Closure
Riffing on Reversals: An Instructive Reading
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I recently performed a reading that provided excellent insights into how reversed cards can alter the thrust of a prediction. The client graciously allowed me to post this narrative as long as anonymity is preserved. The question involved the long-range consequences that might result if the client continues taking the medications she has … Continue reading Riffing on Reversals: An Instructive Reading
The Daily Reading in Three Parts
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Consider this the "club sandwich" of tarot spreads, or maybe the "lasagna;" it breaks the daily reading into three distinct tiers of interpretation. Within the field of behavioral conjecture it's a well-established premise that the human personality exhibits three characteristic modes of response to circumstances: automatic or unplanned (the "knee-jerk reaction"); conditional or … Continue reading The Daily Reading in Three Parts
Lottery Draw for the Week of March 4, 2024
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I used my new spread for selecting the best day of the week to buy a lottery ticket. This requires removing the court cards and shuffling the rest of the deck to populate the "days of the week" row, left-to-right, then shuffling and laying the court cards left-to-right above them until the chosen … Continue reading Lottery Draw for the Week of March 4, 2024
Lottery-Ticket Tarot for the Win
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I decided to come up with a tarot-based approach for selecting the most favorable day(s) to buy weekly lottery tickets as a way to hopefully improve the probability of success. I don't gamble as a rule because, if I have a 50-50 chance of winning at any game of chance, I lose around … Continue reading Lottery-Ticket Tarot for the Win
Trump-Card Functionality: A Learning Exercise
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Here is a two-part learning exercise with a dual purpose - to study individual cards that have been giving us trouble during interpretation, and to examine their effects in combination with other cards as a way to better understand their practical functionality. This essay is a couple of months old and the narrative … Continue reading Trump-Card Functionality: A Learning Exercise
Tarot Alchemy in Seven Stages: Fermentation
AUTHOR'S NOTE: In alchemy, fermentation is a euphemism for "putrefaction" or rotting, from which an impure elixir is generated. Spiritually speaking, the composite Self formed during the process of conjunction was assumed to be authentic but it had not yet achieved the pinnacle of perfection and must now be dissolved, digested and reformulated. The union … Continue reading Tarot Alchemy in Seven Stages: Fermentation
Parsifal's Wheel Tarot & Astrology 