1. Take it seriously. Tarot readings really aren’t for entertainment only. In some states, it’s legally required that tarot readers use the disclaimer “For entertainment purposes only.” Even readers who are located where such disclaimers are not compulsory often put…
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! An international group of tarotists (check out the master list) are all writing on the same topic and then linking to each other so that the reader can hop from one blog to the…
5. A Gorgeous Spiritual Center, not a Fluorescent Convention Center. TarotCon Denver will be held at the Althea Center for Engaged Spirituality. This amazing historic building was built in 1898 as a church of Divine Science, one of the denominations…
I presented this paper to the Denver Tarot Meetup a couple years ago. I started thinking about it yesterday, and even though it’s not my best scholarly work, and the topic could be expanded considerably, I think it’s interesting and…
Riker Saw Himself as if Dead Guinan was wrong. After making extensive repairs, the Enterprise headed towards Wolf 359 to re-engage the Borg after it had assimilated Captain Picard. While they raced to the battle, Guinan confronted Riker in the…
The following is a transcript, edited for clarity, of a discussion we had in my Magician’s Tools Intermediate Tarot Class this week. One class participant asked about reading about other people. Here’s her question and the discussion that followed: Class Participant: Can you do a tarot…
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! An international group of tarotists (check out the master list) are all writing on the same topic and then linking to each other so that the reader can hop from one blog to the…
I’m currently taking a class on The Lyric Essay at Lighthouse Writers Workshop. This is the first draft of my essay, which was workshopped in class on Monday (I made only a few small edits since then). I will re-write it and…
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! An international group of tarotists (check out the master list) are all writing on the same topic and then linking to each other so that the reader can hop from one blog to the…
About five weeks ago, I came across a review of the Chrysalis Tarot by Dan Pelletier of the Tarot Garden (published October 30 on his Facebook page). He praised the deck creators, saying, “Sierra and Brooks demonstrate they actually understand…
When My Understanding of Tarot Took a Quantum Leap Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! An international group of tarotists (check out the master list) are all writing on the same topic and then linking to each other so that…
Insights into the Four Suits and Four Elements The topic for the upcoming BlogHop (to be published September 23) is to talk about a time when your understanding of the Tarot underwent a quantum leap, what brought about the change in your…
It was nearing the end of the day at the Isis Books psychic fair this month when someone I knew from the store sat at my table. “I am overcome with the urge to buy a tarot deck and I…
A student who has been studying esotericism (tarot, astrology and kabbalah) with me all year contacted me this morning with the following question: “You mentioned that the numbers associated with the tarot are not necessarily accurate, as I understood you;…
Subject: Chrysalis Tarot I have managed to score 12 copies. These are the only ones we will be able to get for the foreseeable future. …[S]end your people down, 12 of them, anyway, and let them get them while the…
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! An international group of tarotists (check out the master list) are all writing on the same topic and then linking to each other so that the reader can hop from one blog to the…
We all have those cards that we hate to see come up in a reading. These are the difficult cards. For me, it’s often based on the image used in a particular deck–I had a Two of Cups in one…
Chris recently read my article Reading and Ceremony for Charging a Tarot Deck in the Llewellyn Journal and sent me the following question: Tonight I charged my first ever deck of tarot cards like you instructed on Llewellyn.com. EVERY card I…
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! An international group of tarotists (check out the master list) are all writing on the same topic and then linking to each other so that the reader can hop from one blog to the…
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! An international group of tarotists (check out the master list) are all writing on the same topic and then linking to each other so that the reader can hop from one blog to the next,…
