When Death Means Death
Is the Death card a transition or is it final? Read a very personal portrayal of this card, how it impacted me & how I see it now.
Hebrew for Tarot Readers: Assigning the Seven Planets
Part Four of Mick Frankel's excellent course: Hebrew for Tarot Readers - the Planetary Trumps.
Retrospective Tarot Reading
Using the Celtic Cross Spread to Explore a Past Event We mostly use tarot to find out about the future, or explore a current event in our lives or that of our clients. Tarot is also an excellent tool for exploring past events too. All we need do is tweak the positions of our favourite tarot spread and we have our very own questionnaire built to explore the past! I’m going to use the Celtic Cross Tarot Spread in this post as it lends itself well to customisation. (See my free tutorial on the Celtic Cross for a deeper understanding of its use.)
Journey Through The Major Arcana – Part 3
The Fool’s Journey as 3 X 7 Theory In my Part Two of Journey Through the Major Arcana, I talked about Rachel Pollack’s presentation (in Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom) of the Major Arcana Trumps as a sequence, or progression, of an individual’s journey to individuation and enlightenment. The Trumps (minus the Fool, who represents the individual taking the journey) are divided into three lines: Cards I-VII are seen as consciousness (the outer concerns of life in society) Cards VIII-XIV are seen as subconscious (our inward search to find who we really are) Cards XV-XXI are seen as superconscious (development of a spiritual awareness and a release of archetypal energy). Darkness…
Deck Review: Infinite Visions Tarot
Review by guest poster, Valerie Sylvester. When I was in college I took several art history classes. These involved sitting in a darkened lecture hall as a clicking, whirring projector beamed representations of masterpieces of (mostly) American and European art onto a large screen. Image after lovely image drifted by on the walls. I found it incredibly relaxing, and a respite from the other classes I was taking at the time, which generally involved listening to a professor lecture while I sat in a plastic chair, furiously scribbling in large notebooks. (Note to the youngsters:: Yes, it was a grim and primitive time indeed, Ye Olde Pre-Computer Era) . What…
Deck Review: the Illuminated Tarot
Review by Valerie Sylvester The first deck most beginning tarot readers encounter when starting out on their tarot journey is the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, (which I’ll refer to as “RWS” after this initial mention). It’s often the “default deck”, the one that people learn the basic meanings of the cards from. It also serves to illustrate many tarot books and websites, and most experienced tarot readers have some familiarity with it, even if they don’t use the deck regularly. Many new Tarot decks are published each year; quite of few of these decks are based in some way upon the RWS deck.
