AUTHOR'S NOTE: In his playing-card divination book 54 Devils, Cory Hutcheson describes the suit of Diamonds (tarot Coins or Pentacles) as relating to money and messages, while - as in most systems of cartomancy - the Ace refers to something new such as an original idea or an initiative that is still at the planning … Continue reading The Aces: Close-to-the-Vest
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Updated “Tarot Euphemisms” for the RWS Minor Arcana
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Several years ago I began collecting one-line "euphemisms" (imaginative circumlocutions) based on the cultural, social, historical and literary metaphors and analogies that I've come to use consistently with the Waite-Smith (and occasionally Thoth) minor cards when reading in public. Most of these are fanciful notions that popped into my head in the form … Continue reading Updated “Tarot Euphemisms” for the RWS Minor Arcana
Personalizing Taoist Cosmology: Natal Planets and the Five Agents of Change
AUTHOR'S NOTE: In a previous post I explored the Taoist "Five Agents of Change" (Wu Xing) as encompassed by the twin cycles of creation and destruction in the order Wood-Fire-Earth-Metal-Water. I decided to take the Minor Arcana cards associated with the five personal planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars) of my natal horoscope and … Continue reading Personalizing Taoist Cosmology: Natal Planets and the Five Agents of Change
The Sevens: “Fearing a Misstep”
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This morning I came across a fragment of text by Benebell Wen from a longer translation of one line from the I Ching hexagram Lu, " Heaven over Lake" (Hexagram 10) that dovetails neatly with my previous observations about the Sevens of the tarot Minor Arcana. The gist of it is that the … Continue reading The Sevens: “Fearing a Misstep”
Reversed Aces As “Scattered Focus”
AUTHOR'S NOTE: As I learned them, the Aces exhibit an undivided "singularity of purpose" that embodies the purest and most spiritual expression of the elemental energy associated with their suit. There is no whiff of mundane degradation about them; elementally, they are "as good as it gets" and in a reading they suggest tremendous untapped … Continue reading Reversed Aces As “Scattered Focus”
The Daily Reading in Three Parts
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Consider this the "club sandwich" of tarot spreads, or maybe the "lasagna;" it breaks the daily reading into three distinct tiers of interpretation. Within the field of behavioral conjecture it's a well-established premise that the human personality exhibits three characteristic modes of response to circumstances: automatic or unplanned (the "knee-jerk reaction"); conditional or … Continue reading The Daily Reading in Three Parts
Parsifal's Wheel Tarot & Astrology 