AUTHOR'S NOTE: I'm always looking for new ways to pre-select a subset of the 78-card deck that shrinks the playing field and allows pulling the cards for the reading from a narrower population. This one uses a 24-card template that, with the addition of a single six-sided die, produces a four-card run complemented by a … Continue reading “Running the Maze” – A Mixed-Media Situational Insight Spread
Tarot Readings
Negotiated Settlement: A Best-Case/Worst-Case Trend Development Spread
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I like to say that I don't purposely seek "good" or "bad" answers in a tarot reading but only an indication of trending circumstances that can be brought to a head through the querent's focused engagement. Here is a spread that makes good on this paradigm. It uses a breakdown of generally auspicious, … Continue reading Negotiated Settlement: A Best-Case/Worst-Case Trend Development Spread
Approaching the Hub: An Elemental Alignment Spread
AUTHOR'S NOTE: While reading about the Medieval concept of "Fortuna" (later identified with the tarot Wheel of Fortune), I was impressed by the thinking of Boethius (as presented by C.S. Lewis), who put the following into the mouth of his philosophical muse, Philosophia. (Note that, although "Divine Providence" is not in my personal vocabulary as … Continue reading Approaching the Hub: An Elemental Alignment Spread
“Who Shall I Be Today?” – A Tweaked Daily-Draw Spread
AUTHOR'S NOTE: During my ongoing study of the Taoist Bagua I encountered the idea that, in the three lines of a trigram, the top line represents Heaven, the bottom line signifies Earth and the middle line shows the individual poised between the two. I've been thinking about ways to relate this model to the three-card … Continue reading “Who Shall I Be Today?” – A Tweaked Daily-Draw Spread
The “Response-Spectrum Tableau” – A Tarot, Lenormand and Dice Decision-Making Spread
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Here is a mixed-media spread that combines tarot cards with Lenormand cards and dice to come up with a tableau that offers a range of inputs for making an important decision. Begin by shuffling a Lenormand deck while concentrating on the topic of interest, then deal five cards face-down from left-to-right in the … Continue reading The “Response-Spectrum Tableau” – A Tarot, Lenormand and Dice Decision-Making Spread
The Great Escape: A Conflict-Resolution Spread
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I was just reading about the historical view that many ancient philosophers and mystics envisioned a primordial "Cosmic Egg" that coalesced out of formless chaos, from which all life emerged as the culmination of an embryonic seed-state. I decided to explore this concept as the basis for a new conflict-resolution spread that uses … Continue reading The Great Escape: A Conflict-Resolution Spread
2024 Presidential Election Recap: The Power of Horary
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I had new content prepared for today, but decided to revisit my October 9th "Astro-Tarotscope" reading in response to the projected outcome of the 2024 Presidential election. I've linked the reading below for those interested, but my closing comment in the original analysis is worth highlighting: "While I admit to not being much … Continue reading 2024 Presidential Election Recap: The Power of Horary
Tarot As “Offering Bowl” – A Situational Development Spread
AUTHOR'S NOTE: The practice of Taiji envisions eight "offering bowls" that enclose space and also present the contents of that space to the aspirant. Here I've created an eight-position tarot spread modeled on the taijitu (yin/yang) symbol of the I Ching to show situational progress from constructive input (yin as receptive and cooperative) to productive … Continue reading Tarot As “Offering Bowl” – A Situational Development Spread
Getting Out of Our Own Way: More Thoughts on Attunement
AUTHOR'S NOTE: In the chapter on "Rhythm" in his book The Tao of Thoth, Ethan Indigo Smith describes being obstructed by the routine "rhythms of the world" and, in order to advance, learning to "move out of our own way, physically at first, and as we progress mentally and emotionally as well. An example of … Continue reading Getting Out of Our Own Way: More Thoughts on Attunement
Claiming the Space: An Elemental-Alignment Spread
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I just came across the Taoist concept of "claiming the space" in Taiji martial-arts combat by swinging the arms in a specifically "yang" (or offensive) manner as opposed to "relinquishing the space" in strategic withdrawal via a defensive "yin" arm-movement. I decided to apply this "yang" idea to a tarot spread. Begin by … Continue reading Claiming the Space: An Elemental-Alignment Spread
Parsifal's Wheel Tarot & Astrology 