As I continue coming up to speed with playing-card divination, I performed another expanded 3-phase daily draw using the Voyager Tarot, Caitlin Keegan's Illuminated Tarot enhanced playing cards and the Messenger Oracle. Note that the Voyager departs from the common keyword nomenclature in use today, and also in much of its interpretive content. The left-hand … Continue reading Experimental Daily Draw #2
Tarot Readings
“Weekly Blueprint” Pull for Wednesday
All images copyright U.S. Games Systems, Inc, Stamford, CT and M.M. Meleen The "action" card for today is Lust. As I mentioned earlier, the Queen of Disks as "background" card is a mystery to me in human terms, and today's pull only deepens that mystery. So I decided to derive a "quintessence" card from the … Continue reading “Weekly Blueprint” Pull for Wednesday
The Ship of Fools Tarot Deck Interview
When I returned to the serious study and regular use of tarot after an extended period of intermittent dabbling, I found that a number of practices had become entrenched in the culture that didn't exist previously. One of these was what is known as the "new deck interview." This is the engagingly animistic habit of … Continue reading The Ship of Fools Tarot Deck Interview
“Weekly Blueprint” Pull for Tuesday
Here is Tuesday's pairing of background "tone" and foreground "action" cards. I realized this morning that, to be strictly correct, I need to use two decks in this exercise, so all possible combinations are available for each day. There is no logical reason why the Tower can't appear in both the background and the foreground … Continue reading “Weekly Blueprint” Pull for Tuesday
“Weekly Blueprint” Pull for Monday
As promised, here is the first installment of my "test drive" for the Weekly Situational Blueprint spread. I used the Tabula Mundi Colores Arcus deck, with reversals. All images © 2015 M.M. Meleen The weekly draw produced the 4 of Cups (Moon in Cancer) reversed for Monday, the 4 of Swords (Jupiter in Libra) for … Continue reading “Weekly Blueprint” Pull for Monday
Lunar Month Look-Ahead for October
On the New Moon of each month, I perform a forecast for the impending lunar cycle using astrologer Dane Rudhyar's 8-phase "lunation" model. The basis for the spread structure is described in the developer's notes appended to the layout. Here is the result for October, 2017, using the Tabula Mundi Colores Arcus tarot, with reversals. … Continue reading Lunar Month Look-Ahead for October
Experimental Daily Draw #1
I'm not a fan of reading other people's daily draws. They present an overly personal and mundane inventory of dirty laundry that usually makes me yawn. I stopped doing simple daily draws for myself a long time ago since they weren't telling me much of value. But recently I find that performing more complex pulls … Continue reading Experimental Daily Draw #1
A 2017 Fall Equinox Reading
At the Winter Solstice of 2016, I performed a Wheel of the Year spread for the coming 12-month period. This included an annual card (the Sun for this year), four quarterly cards (the Magician, the Hierophant, the Lovers and Strength), and twelve monthly cards (shown on the attached photo). For the 4th Quarter of 2017 … Continue reading A 2017 Fall Equinox Reading
A Case Study: Family Differences
The querent in this case has experienced long-standing - although veiled - disdain from her siblings over religious differences. They are either born-again fundamentalists or Catholic in their beliefs, and the querent is an unaffiliated spiritual free-thinker. Before the reading, we discussed the fact that the conservative energy of the Hierophant - with its rigid … Continue reading A Case Study: Family Differences
A Personal-Encounter Example Reading
I recently had occasion to use my "Inconvenient Truths" personal-encounter spread in a real-life situation. https://parsifalswheeldivination.wordpress.com/2017/08/08/2293/ A woman I know is involved in an increasingly toxic friendship with another woman who is exhibiting signs of serious psychological disorder. The woman has a predatory or even vampiric nature that drains my friend of her energy and … Continue reading A Personal-Encounter Example Reading
Parsifal's Wheel Tarot & Astrology 