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…
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…
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,…
One of my Facebook friends mentioned that a specific organization offered tarot readings online, and asked if they were legitimate or if the recipient of the reading has to be present. Here’s my answer to her: A lot of times you…
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,…
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,…
The symbolism behind the Chariot’s correlation to Cancer in the tarot just came to me. First, it helps to understand how the assignment of the cards to the planets and signs came about. In fifteenth century minchiate decks, twenty additional…
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! An international group of tarotists 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, seeing all the permutations…
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! An international group of tarotists 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, seeing all the permutations…
Recently I talked with representatives of a couple metaphysical stores and asked what their bestselling tarot deck was. I thought there would be a “tarot flavor of the month”—an especially popular current deck—but it turned out that both stores sold…
Tarot Three of Pentacles Vs Eight of Pentacles A discussion came to my attention in which a number of people were debating whether, kabbalistically, the threes in tarot are higher than the eights. In particular, the person posing the question…
A common thread that has come up in both my tarot classes and Reiki classes is, How can we help others when we have so much healing to do ourselves? As passionate as we are about sharing our gifts, the…
