Take Five With The Tarot Fours Our topic for the Mid-Winter Tarot Blog Hop is “Beginning Again.” Wrangler Kim of Kimberly Essex Tarot and Meditation skipped through a series of word associations starting with “spring cleaning” to “cleaning the slate”…
Meditations for Magical Images A mighty king sitting on a sapphire throne. A warrior queen standing in a red chariot. A golden-haired child with arms upraised. These are some of the magical images of the Tree of Life. What do…
A Sample Reading with the Great Granddaddy of Tarot Spreads Years ago I came across Mary K. Greer’s wonderful article, “The Oldest Spread, by le Comte de M***.” She offered a fascinating peek into the first recorded tarot spread. All…
The Tarot Taboos: Reading on Health and Other People Reading on health and other people are two very common questions. And every reader’s Statement of Ethics says they will not read on these topics. But reading for clients includes looking…
Be Sure to Leave Room in Your Luggage for Tarot Decks! “How many decks should I take with me?” A year or two ago, I was reading for a client who was preparing for a retreat that would last several…
“Tarot and Astrology Chat” Links and References I had a great time talking with Chris Brennan of The Astrology Podcast while I was in Denver last month. We explored a wide-ranging variety of topics centering around and launching from a…
Transform Third-class Trash Into First-Rate Tarot Art Today’s assignment for the Tarot Blog Hop is to create a tarot card or two or three from your junk mail! As the wrangler, my suggestion was to stick to what comes through…
I love staring at tarot cards. I can gaze at a card a million times and still find something new in it. Last night, I was looking at cards with friends. As I contemplated the Ten of Wands, I saw…
The Stories we Know Bring Our Tarot Readings to Life Wrangler Jay Cassels of Jay’s Mystic Blog invited us to explore the interesting topic of “unseen traditions.” I wasn’t sure where to take the topic, but a three-card spread gave…
Before performing a tarot reading, it’s important to randomize the cards. The standard practice for randomizing a deck is shuffling the cards. But with tarot cards, shuffling can be awkward when the deck’s too big. Fortunately, there are a variety…
Astrological Correspondences of the Tarot Pages I was having lunch with a friend the other day and he asked me about the Pages in the tarot. He wanted to know if they had an astrological correspondence. Our discussion led to…
Be The only reader You’ll ever need Follow these tips for reading tarot for yourself, work through your own reading using the free downloadable workbook, and discover that you’re the best reader for you! I first presented this for the…
Spring 2022 Tarot Card Astrology: Seven Of Pentacles Saturn won’t be in Taurus until 2028, and won’t enter the third decan of that sign until June 2029. A retrograde will keep it in roughly that area of the zodiac for…
Spring 2022 Tarot Card Astrology: Six Of Pentacles There’s a new moon in Taurus on April 30, at 1:28 p.m. This lunation occurs in the second decan of that sign, the face ruled by the Moon. The Moon will pass…
Spring 2022 Tarot Card Astrology: Five of Pentacles Mercury zips through the first decan of Taurus between April 11 and 16. The Five of Pentacles is an interesting illustration of the contrary energies of the fleet-footed god and the heavy,…
Hear the Voice of Silence The Cube of Space is a three-dimensional tarot tableau, a specific arrangement of the cards. Contemplation of this model reveals great insight into the tarot. But more than that, the Cube of Space is a…
Spring 2022 Tarot Card Astrology: Nine Of Cups Jupiter entered the middle decan of Pisces on February 12, and voyages through that section of the zodiac for six weeks. The tarot’s Nine of Cups captures this celestial energy. In this…
Using Tarot to Connect with the Sacred Knowledge of Inner Wisdom Welcome to the Samhain Tarot Blog Hop! Our topic, proposed by Jay Cassels of Sacred Healing Blog, is Sacred Knowledge. Jay asks us, “What secrets or knowledge have you…
The Mystical Journey Of the Soul Students of the qabalistic tarot are familiar with the Tree of Life and its numerological and astrological correspondences to the tarot. These correspondences are based on specific arrangements of the Hebrew letters on the…
Two Different Decan Rulers If you’re studying astrology and tarot, you are familiar with the planet and sign combinations that correspond to the Minor Arcana numbered cards. But if you’ve started exploring where those correlations come from, you very well…
