I know an artist who is starting an on-line business, and I wanted to examine what her prospects are for success with my new "Shadow Play" spread. I used M.M Meleen's Thoth-based Tabula Mundi Colores Arcus deck, with reversals. All images © 2015 M,M. Meleen At first glance, the "outwardly explicit" cards in the top … Continue reading A “Shadow Play” Example Reading
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The “Shadow-Play” Motivational Awareness Spread
As a spin-off of my "House System for Tarot" post, I created a spread that draws the house cards from the bottom of the deck as shadow-card companions to the more outwardly explicit cards pulled from the top of the deck. These cards will show underlying motives or causes that affect the outer aspects of … Continue reading The “Shadow-Play” Motivational Awareness Spread
“Mirror of the Soul” Karmic Message Spread
The Pythagoreans held that Number is sacred and embodies the root of all Existence; the measure of anything whatsoever can be taken in its ten formative principals, which ascend from an embryonic origin in the Monad or Point (1) to mature perfection in the Decad (10). (Note that this isn't the mathematical perception of Pythagoreanism … Continue reading “Mirror of the Soul” Karmic Message Spread
A “House” System for Tarot
Some time ago I created a numerical table that lays out all 78 tarot cards in an array that begins with the 22 trump cards and then follows through with the 56 minor cards, Ace through King and Wands through Pentacles. I devised this table as a way to find the "mid-point" between cards for … Continue reading A “House” System for Tarot
An Alternate Approach to On-line Reading
As I've said many times before, I'm suspicious of any card-reading method that doesn't involve a querent physically handling the deck. Consequently, I shy away from on-line reading except under very limited circumstances. One of my "work-arounds" is to request that remote clients shuffle and draw from their own deck of cards, then tell me … Continue reading An Alternate Approach to On-line Reading
A “Roll Them Bones” Example Reading
To test this spread, I decided to ask (once again) what my prospects are for advancement in my professional aspirations as a tarot reader. I used the RWS Centennial Pocket Edition with reversals for this reading. All images copyright U.S. Games Systems, Inc, Stamford, CT My first roll was a Three, so I shuffled all … Continue reading A “Roll Them Bones” Example Reading
“Roll Them Bones” Situational Awareness Spread
Here I'm having some more fun with dice and cards in collaboration. The dice are used to narrow down the card possibilities for each position. The idea is to "roll the bones" until you arrive at a number that fits within the range for the position, and then remove the four minor or court cards … Continue reading “Roll Them Bones” Situational Awareness Spread
Brexit Redux: A “B&B” Reading
The title alludes to "Boris and Brexit," not "bed & breakfast," "bread & butter" or "Benedictine & brandy." My last reading on Brexit was November 26 of last year and it predicted that Theresa May wouldn't have "a chance in Hell" as her "support surges away from her" amid "stubborn divisiveness." https://parsifalswheeldivination.wordpress.com/2018/11/26/puttin-on-the-rex/ For this reading … Continue reading Brexit Redux: A “B&B” Reading
“Why-Cuz”
When my niece was young she pestered my sister with so many "Why"questions that her mother began simply answering "cuz" (as in "because I say so"). Eventually the youngster started automatically prefacing her questions with "Why-cuz," skipping the dialogue and answering herself. But this post isn't about cute family history; I have a bigger fish … Continue reading “Why-Cuz”
Any Way You Slice It
I was just on Pinterest looking at tips for topical reading (that is, divination based on the general "fortune-telling" subjects of love, money, work, health, etc), which I belatedly realized are just variations on the Lost Man Spread. A card is pre-selected as "Significator" to represent the topic of interest, but it is left in … Continue reading Any Way You Slice It