AUTHOR'S NOTE: This spread uses the location in one of three sub-packs of a pre-identified Significator card representing the querent or the issue itself. The structure is based on the three aspects of the Celtic "mind-body-spirit" triskelion. It is intended to be applied when a client feels uneasy about the matter at hand but can't … Continue reading A Three-Factor “Mind/Body/Spirit” Well-Being Assessment
Aimlessness and Redirection: Another Take on Reversed Cards
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I recently described the reversed Fool in one of the "thematic" positions of a spread as signifying an atmosphere of rudderless drifting. In retrospect, I realize that this assumption of aimlessness can be applied to any reversed card when its projected development in the matter isn't strictly in line with its "normal" evolution. … Continue reading Aimlessness and Redirection: Another Take on Reversed Cards
“Peace, Power and Openness:” A Tarot-Reading Mantra
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Whenever I consider silently chanting an intention-and-protection spell prior to beginning a tarot reading, I'm reminded of the Simon Pegg/Nick Frost movie Hot Fuzz, in which Timothy Dalton played the leader of a creepy cabal of local activists whose members kept muttering in unison and in a morbid monotone "The greater good, the … Continue reading “Peace, Power and Openness:” A Tarot-Reading Mantra
The Numerical Essence Card as “Vaulting Over Limitations”
AUTHOR'S NOTE: After taking a long detour into the psionic research of Dr. Dean Radin as applied to divination, I've returned to reading Benebell Wen's Holistic Tarot. I just encountered a three-card example reading in the book that I felt deserved a more carefully-considered analysis. The reading was for an aggressive Aries male who was … Continue reading The Numerical Essence Card as “Vaulting Over Limitations”
“Another Cup of ‘Why Bother’ . . .”
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I've been following an increasingly rancorous argument in one of the online occult forums over why the esoteric community seems so toothless of late (hey, I was going to use one of the darlings of AI writing, "pusillanimous") compared to its previous vigor. Where is the bracing "bite" of old? There is certainly … Continue reading “Another Cup of ‘Why Bother’ . . .”
The One-Card Draw as Thematic Stage-Setter
AUTHOR'S NOTE: In my opinion, the one-card pull as a daily reading practice is relatively useless except as a way to show the environmental backdrop or atmosphere of the forthcoming 24-hour period. It is static and therefore can't effectively display potential developments in the situation unless we imagine (aka "intuit") them. However, I'm proposing another … Continue reading The One-Card Draw as Thematic Stage-Setter
UFOs, the Multiverse and the Irruption of the Paranormal*
*Irruption: a sudden, forcible, or violent breaking into a place, a sudden invasion AUTHOR'S NOTE: This one is more ambitious than most. Let's see where it goes. Years ago I read a pair of cosmology books by science author Timothy Ferris, and in one of them (it was either 1988's Coming of Age in the … Continue reading UFOs, the Multiverse and the Irruption of the Paranormal*
Tarot Cards as a “Hall of Mirrors”
"One explanation for (human sentience) is that consciousness emerges as a result of the complexity and self-reflective recursion that is built into the circuits of the brain, like a hall of mirrors."- Dean Radin in Supernormal AUTHOR'S NOTE: A commonly-help opinion among tarot practitioners is that the random cards pulled for a reading "mirror" the … Continue reading Tarot Cards as a “Hall of Mirrors”
The Card Whisperer
AUTHOR'S NOTE: One of the strangest questions posed from time-to-time in the online tarot community (even stranger than "Do you think the cards have personalities?") is "Do you talk to your decks?" As if we can be expected to cozy up to a pack of cards on the sofa over tea and have a meaningful … Continue reading The Card Whisperer
Deep Thoughts on Participatory Divination: People, Not Process
AUTHOR'S NOTE: There is an unusually abstract theory in speculative physics (one that is dismissed out-of-hand by the mainstream scientific community) that all objects - whether in concrete form or as massless "packets of energy" - have their origin in the primordial raw material of information that is defined as binary data-bits operating in the … Continue reading Deep Thoughts on Participatory Divination: People, Not Process
Parsifal's Wheel Tarot & Astrology 