No, this isn't about the impeachment of Donald Trump. It alludes to the fact that Aleister Crowley returned the trump cards Justice and Strength (aka Fortitude) to the positions they held in the historical decks of Italy and France: Justice as the eighth in the series and Strength as the eleventh. For his part, A. … Continue reading Cheap Shots #18: Justice Restored
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“Weekly Blueprint” Pull for Monday
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
A Weekly Situational Blueprint Spread
This weekly spread is an elaboration on the single-card daily draw. The seven diurnal "blueprint" cards are laid out on the evening before the start of the week, and provide a day-by-day situational forecast for the period. Each morning during the week, a single "trigger" card is pulled for that day to draw the promise … Continue reading A Weekly Situational Blueprint Spread
Cheap Shots #17: Tone vs. Substance
One complaint of the tarot novice that comes up quite often on the forums is "Nothing happened the way the cards said it would." This is sometimes accompanied by a profound loss of faith that drives the discouraged neophyte away from the practice of divination entirely. Even the trite remark that "the cards weren't wrong, … Continue reading Cheap Shots #17: Tone vs. Substance
Lunar Month Look-Ahead for October
On the New Moon of each month, I perform a forecast for the impending lunar cycle using astrologer Dane Rudhyar's 8-phase "lunation" model. The basis for the spread structure is described in the developer's notes appended to the layout. Here is the result for October, 2017, using the Tabula Mundi Colores Arcus tarot, with reversals. … Continue reading Lunar Month Look-Ahead for October
Confessions of an Incurable Thothie
By all reliable accounts, Aleister Crowley was not a nice man. Yet he fathered one of the enduring icons of modern tarot - the Thoth deck - along with its remarkable companion volume, The Book of Thoth or BoT. A revisionist attempt is afoot to give the lion's share of the credit for the excellence of … Continue reading Confessions of an Incurable Thothie
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
A 2017 Fall Equinox Reading
At the Winter Solstice of 2016, I performed a Wheel of the Year spread for the coming 12-month period. This included an annual card (the Sun for this year), four quarterly cards (the Magician, the Hierophant, the Lovers and Strength), and twelve monthly cards (shown on the attached photo). For the 4th Quarter of 2017 … Continue reading A 2017 Fall Equinox Reading
A Case Study: Family Differences
The querent in this case has experienced long-standing - although veiled - disdain from her siblings over religious differences. They are either born-again fundamentalists or Catholic in their beliefs, and the querent is an unaffiliated spiritual free-thinker. Before the reading, we discussed the fact that the conservative energy of the Hierophant - with its rigid … Continue reading A Case Study: Family Differences
The “Square of Life” Lifeworks Spread
This is a "Swiss-Army-Knife" life-reading spread intended for examination of life's circumstances in four major areas: Personal Life: the individual as a self-contained entity; Family Life: the individual in relation to family; Social Life: the individual in relation to friends or partners; Work and Public Life: the individual in relation to the broader public. The … Continue reading The “Square of Life” Lifeworks Spread
Parsifal's Wheel Tarot & Astrology 