AUTHOR'S NOTE: Here is a layout that forms a sigil or "charm" intended to influence another person or situation that the querent wants to bend to his or her will. It uses a "significator" card at the center to represent the objective of the enchantment (for lack of a better word), and the seven classical … Continue reading The “Star of Hope” Personal Initiative Sigil
Tarot Spreads
The “Zodiacal Strip” Monthly Astro-Tarot Reading
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is not nearly as messy as it looks. Those who are familiar with astrology will be able to make good sense of it. Here is a different take on the 12-position astrological spread that I adapted from Donald Tyson's book, Tarot Magic. It uses the twelve zodiacal trump cards and the seven … Continue reading The “Zodiacal Strip” Monthly Astro-Tarot Reading
Leveraging the Hexagram: A Motivational Spread
AUTHOR’S NOTE: For this spread, I’ve lifted the internal hexagram array from my “Tarot Magic” layout to use as a motivational overview covering both mental/spiritual and physical aspirations as well as four types of opportunity: adventurous (i.e. risk-taking) or pragmatic (both aligned with Physical Motivation) and intellectual or emotional (associated with Mental/Spiritual Motivation). Taking a … Continue reading Leveraging the Hexagram: A Motivational Spread
A Tarot Compass and Range-Finder: Locating the Lost
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Although horary astrology is much better for it, I sometimes work with tarot as a means of finding lost items or people. I once applied the left-or-right gaze of the human figures on the cards to indicate a past or future bias in a querent's situation. Here I'm bringing it to bear, along … Continue reading A Tarot Compass and Range-Finder: Locating the Lost
“Neat Borders:” A Further Case for Tarot Spreads
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I was just reading a fascinating post in which a miscellany of famous authors expounded on why they (often vociferously) disliked a variety of important books by other esteemed writers (some of them very popular). I came across this gem from Charlotte Bronte, who was eviscerating Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: it … Continue reading “Neat Borders:” A Further Case for Tarot Spreads
A Four-Path Attitudinal Guidance Spread
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I'm fond of spreads that diverge in opposite directions along several different paths to closure. This one is designed to aid the querent in deciding whether the matter at hand should be approached assertively (Wands/Fire); compassionately (Cups/Water); thoughtfully (Swords/Air) or pragmatically (Disks/Earth). It uses all 78 cards and can be read with reversals. … Continue reading A Four-Path Attitudinal Guidance Spread
“Bottom-Feeding” – The Fish-Hook Spread
AUTHOR'S NOTE: There are times when it seems that our ability to come up with meaningful conclusions in a tarot reading has deserted us; perhaps the wisdom we seek has receded into the murky depths where we're not accustomed to going. The usual advice is to just dig deeper and more diligently for a better … Continue reading “Bottom-Feeding” – The Fish-Hook Spread
Aspiring to the Inside: A “Tarot Magic” Invocation Reading
AUTHOR'S NOTE: When I created my "Tarot Magic" spread based on Donald Tyson's book of the same name, I was planning to use it for evocation rituals that are focused on the realization of external objectives. However, upon reading further, I found that Tyson also covered the manifestation of internal conditions within the querent's immediate … Continue reading Aspiring to the Inside: A “Tarot Magic” Invocation Reading
A “Magical Evocation by Tarot” Example Reading
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Here is a reading based on the "Tarot Magic" spread I just created using introductory comments in Donald Tyson's book Tarot Magic (formerly titled Portable Magic) and Pat Zalewski's The Magical Tarot of the Golden Dawn. (Since I'm sharing this post on a Thoth page, I decided to use the Thoth deck for … Continue reading A “Magical Evocation by Tarot” Example Reading
The “Eclipsed Priorities” Spread: Competing Agendas, Solutions and Consequences
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Here is an elegant conflict-resolution spread that explores the overlapping consequences of optimistic and pessimistic trajectories converging in a tarot reading. It's a further experiment with using a "grim" deck to suggest the less-desirable scenario and an "upbeat" deck to convey the more-auspicious outlook. The design shows the two on an intersecting "collision … Continue reading The “Eclipsed Priorities” Spread: Competing Agendas, Solutions and Consequences
Parsifal's Wheel Tarot & Astrology 