When I started this blog in July of 2017, I was looking for an alternative to my ongoing participation in on-line tarot forums and occasional publication in various tarot newsletters and journals, mainly as a personal outlet for the ideas I've been honing over more than four decades of studying and working with the cards. … Continue reading A Pause to Consider
Society
The PoMo Tarot Deck Interview
If Brian Williams' Post-Modern Tarot deck from 1994 had a motto, it would be "Nobody likes a smart-ass." Williams managed to put his finger squarely on the pulse of bored, self-indulgent, late-20th-century American culture, and then tweaked its collective nose hard. I've had it since 1994 but seldom used it until recently, when I had a … Continue reading The PoMo Tarot Deck Interview
The Alchemy of Silence: A Temperance Poem
Yesterday, in the tarot and Lenormand blog My Curious Cabinet, I was reading Le Fanu's explanation for his retirement from active posting. His comments on the need to regain "silence" in his life, to fend off the intrusion of social and cultural malaise into his private space, got me thinking about my own perception of … Continue reading The Alchemy of Silence: A Temperance Poem
“Cheap Shots” #13 – 2150 or Bust
There is a thread on the Astrologers' Community forum titled "Is Anyone Else Tired of Waiting for the Age of Aquarius to Take Effect?" Consensus among the numerous commenters is that the poor, benighted OP missed the boat somewhere. Personally, I'm not so sure. I understand that, sidereally, the Age of Aquarius will begin around … Continue reading “Cheap Shots” #13 – 2150 or Bust
“Cheap Shots” #12: Running on Empty
Must be time for another cheap shot at something. I'm running out of things to rant about. Let's see . . . how about the disappearance or "mainstreaming" of New Age bookshops? It's not just the relentless rise of Amazon; it seems to me the "blush is off the rose" more than just a little. … Continue reading “Cheap Shots” #12: Running on Empty
“Cheap Shots” #7 (“Unsheeping”)
I've come to view the "Christian myth" as a kind of allegory, a morality play that depicts an ethically sound and admirable way to live, rather than any kind of historical truth. Nothing wrong at all with its moral tenets, everything wrong with the patriarchal priesthood that has erected a self-serving power structure around it. … Continue reading “Cheap Shots” #7 (“Unsheeping”)
A Common Core Fable
My wife was an elementary school math teacher before her retirement, and deplored the aberration that is Common Core arithmetic. I decided to poke some well-deserved fun at it. The New York Times reports that President Obama has just appointed a blue-ribbon panel of musicians – headed by internationally renowned fantasy author Douglas Adams – … Continue reading A Common Core Fable
A HazMat Fable
For years I had been stewing over the fact that I can no longer buy oil-based deck stain due to environmental concerns over its manufacture. The regulations were a Clinton-era initiative (1998), and resulted in the replacement water-borne products being entirely unsatisfactory. I decided to vent my frustration in a little humor. This one is … Continue reading A HazMat Fable
I, Gadfly
I confess to being more than a little curmudgeonly when it comes to all things political; I think the only good politician is a retired one (even I'm not cruel enough to say a "dead one"), and then only if the obscene life-long retirement benefits are rescinded. My displeasure is of the non-partisan "equal-opportunity" type, … Continue reading I, Gadfly
Parsifal's Wheel Tarot & Astrology 