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
Tarot Readings
“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
Correspondences: How Much is Too Much?
Funny thing about esoteric correspondences. Sometimes you don't need them at all, other times you can get nowhere without at least a cursory nod to them. They're especially useful when a spread serves up a disjointed mish-mash of contradictory meanings that resists all tactics of intuition, inspiration, imagination and ingenuity. The analytical skill required to … Continue reading Correspondences: How Much is Too Much?
A Celtic Cross Reading Example
Here is an example of a Celtic Cross interpretation I posted on one of the tarot forums I frequent, using my personal spread design and positional meanings. It's a bare-bones version of the CC reading I'm offering here. All images copyright U.S. Games Systems, Inc, Stamford, CT Card #1: 6 of Pentacles - Most of … Continue reading A Celtic Cross Reading Example
Should We Empower or Should We Enable?
One thing I have always appreciated about tarot is its ability to speak the plain truth in difficult circumstances. Its advice is often bluntly constructive rather than comforting, and the reader must walk a fine line when imparting its wisdom to assure impartiality. It's a truism that "bad things" do still happen to "good people," … Continue reading Should We Empower or Should We Enable?
Parsifal's Wheel Tarot & Astrology 