A little over a year ago I posted a reading concerning the whereabouts of Maura Murray, a missing 21-year-old college student from Massachusetts who disappeared in North Haverhill, NH on February 9, 2004. https://parsifalswheeldivination.wordpress.com/2018/02/09/2004-cold-case-where-is-maura/ Since that time I've created a new spread to explore not only where missing persons are, but also what may have … Continue reading What Happened to Maura? A Missing Person Reading, Take #2
Tarot
Astrological Significators
For tarot spreads that require a "Significator" card to represent the querent or the topic of interest, the challenge has always been how to go about selecting the "right" card. The old books advised using a querent's appearance (light-haired, dark-haired, fair-skinned, swarthy, etc.), gender and relative age to make the call. This provided a rough … Continue reading Astrological Significators
Where Is Eddy? – A Missing Person Reading
Eddy Segall, a then-28-year-old Nashua, NH woman, was reported missing on June 15, 1977 and hasn't been seen or heard from since. https://www.wmur.com/article/new-hampshire-unsolved-case-file-what-happened-to-eddy-segall/26716667 Using the Joie de Vivre deck, I performed my "World of Hurt" missing-person spread to see what it might tell me about her past and present circumstances. I ran the spread twice, … Continue reading Where Is Eddy? – A Missing Person Reading
The Joie de Vivre Tarot
Paulina Cassidy's second deck has been described by some reviewers as "child-like," an impression that is explicitly touted by the wording on the box, leading to the assumption that it is light-weight and not suitable for answering serious questions. This is an older deck, first published in 2011, that never caught my eye because my … Continue reading The Joie de Vivre Tarot
The Skeptic’s Confession
It may surprise you to see an admission of skepticism in a post by the author of a divination blog. But in fact I'm doubtful about the legitimacy of much that currently passes for truth in the metaphysical scripture of the unseen. For example, I'm a non-believer in the "Law of Attraction," which as far … Continue reading The Skeptic’s Confession
The “Hamlet Defense”
In my previously constrained magical life, which persisted for many years after we moved to rural New Hampshire in 1979 and our early attempts to start astrology and Qabala groups came to nothing, I never encountered scoffers and skeptics. Eventually, my only public exposure in the esoteric field was to the like-minded people at the local … Continue reading The “Hamlet Defense”
So You’re a Professional Tarot Reader?
In a local "commerce-and-culture" magazine, I came across an interview with a professional "Certified Life Coach" and began pondering how I would respond to such questions if they are ever presented to me as a tarot reader. Here is my version of a hypothetical interview that aligns more closely with the practice of divination. What is … Continue reading So You’re a Professional Tarot Reader?
The Doctor Is Out
. . . but the curmudgeon is always in! I'm inclined to approach a tarot session as I would a surgical emergency room rather than as an updated 19th Century parlor pastime: "We're going to perform a little triage here, not just exchange polite pleasantries. It could get bloody!" But I'm suspicious that many newcomers … Continue reading The Doctor Is Out
The Sitter’s Intent
In his abbreviated commentary on the Major Arcana at the end of The Book of Thoth, Aleister Crowley observed that the Wheel of Fortune describes "Change of fortune. (This generally means good fortune because the fact of consultation implies anxiety or discontent.)" His point is that people who seek the advice of a diviner usually … Continue reading The Sitter’s Intent
The “Ivory Gambit” Spread
Lately I've become fascinated with using dice and tarot in combination to produce unique forms of divination. Here the gambit (opening move) is provided by rolling dice to identify four trump cards to serve as the basis for the reading. Those trump cards are then used to extract four sets of "reading" cards from which … Continue reading The “Ivory Gambit” Spread
Parsifal's Wheel Tarot & Astrology 