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
Experimental
A Psycard Prediction Scenario
I recently received a set of Psycards, and have been eager to create a spread that makes specific use of their strengths. The deck contains several "archetype" cards (Father, Mother, Fool, Sage and Warrior) that can be put to good use in defining a querent's most advantageous approach to any matter of interest. There are … Continue reading A Psycard Prediction Scenario
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
Daily Draws: My Back Pages
In the 1964 "political apostasy" song My Back Pages, Bob Dylan's refrain perfectly nailed my evolving attitude toward drawing one or more cards on a daily basis for anything other than learning purposes. "Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now." Back in "the day" (mid-1970s), only a couple of … Continue reading Daily Draws: My Back Pages
Expanding Your Reach
A brief article in the latest issue of The Cartomancer quarterly posed the question of whether anyone should feel inadequate for being a "one-trick pony" in the divinatory arts, only focusing on a single branch of the tree when the public seems to expect a well-rounded "gypsy fortune-teller" repertoire. This has me thinking about my … Continue reading Expanding Your Reach
The “Sword and Shield” Decision-Making Spread
This is an earlier and more complex 15-card version of the "active-or-passive" decision-making spread I previously posted as the Balance of Forces spread. It is a study in its own right, in that it uses a qabalistic Tree of Life format with my own take on Adam Kadmon, the "Heavenly Man," standing within the Tree … Continue reading The “Sword and Shield” Decision-Making Spread
The “Second Opinion” Moving Line Spread
This is a "Majors-Only" spread in which only four of the cards are drawn from the 22-card deck; the rest are derived from the card first drawn in each row. It adopts the concept that all of the Major Arcana cards except the Fool as "0" have one or more "numerological counterparts" based on the … Continue reading The “Second Opinion” Moving Line Spread
“Double Whammy” Yes-or-No Sample Reading
I performed a test reading with the "Yes-or-No" spread posted earlier, using the Fournier Tarot de Marseille. I asked a simple question about whether an upcoming activity would turn out well. (Note that where the cards are bi-directional, I consider them to be upright). Card #1: 10 of Cups - Cups = Yes; Upright = … Continue reading “Double Whammy” Yes-or-No Sample Reading
The “Double Whammy” Yes-or-No Spread
This is an intense little spread that is more complicated than it looks. It uses only the 56 suit cards and also two standard dice, and is designed around the astronomical Earth-Sun-Moon cycle. The waxing lunar cycle builds toward "Yes" and the waning cycle fades toward "No." The idea is to first lay out the … Continue reading The “Double Whammy” Yes-or-No Spread
Location is Everything
As most experienced tarot readers know, the cards are less than stellar at identifying where an event forecast in a reading is likely to take place. Locations determined solely from the images are often far afield from the reality of the querent's circumstances. A related question is where a missing item has concealed itself. I … Continue reading Location is Everything
Parsifal's Wheel Tarot & Astrology 