Once you have bought a deck, you must familiarize yourself with it and start your study of Tarot. Open your deck, but don’t shuffle it yet. Or if you have played with it already, resort it into suites. Read the little white booklet that came with the deck. Raymond Buckland made a good suggestion: read the… Read more »
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Picking a Tarot Deck
How do you pick a deck to use? There are hundreds even thousands of published and unpublished decks to choose from. Some people like to create their OWN tarot decks. Some decks have pictures on the Minor Arcana. some (referred to as Marseille decks) don’t. The best way to pick a deck for you is… Read more »
Psychic Shopping
Listen to the voices. The wee inner voices. Even if they don’t speak, only breathe a little, like dirty phone calls. Do anything they tell you to do except rape, kill or pillage. (The voices make mistakes sometimes, but they don’t make boring mistakes.) –Michael Ventura, “SOLUTIONS TO EVERYTHING” I bought a desk today. I… Read more »
What are tarot cards?
I am sure you have seen Tarot cards and wondered about them. Maybe you have even had a reading before. I am starting a new series here of short pieces about tarot. I hope you enjoy them. For this first piece, lets talk about what Tarot is and what it is not. It is 78… Read more »
The Hermit
The Hermit Once you begin a path, you need to stop from time to time to take stock, to be sure you are on the “right” path for you. The Hermit traditionally stands at the peak of a mountain and looks down. He is looking back to see how far he has come before descending… Read more »
Strength
Strength The Strength card has nothing to do with physical prowess. It has everything to do with mental ability. Traditionally, it depicts a woman closing a lion’s month. NOT forcing it open, which would require a good deal of strength. Instead she is going with the natural path and forcing it closed. Which requires coaxing… Read more »
Turn off the soap operas!
I was hoping the Lovers script would cause some discussion, maybe it will next week. I like doing these radio scripts, they make me rethink the cards myself as I riff on them. I think my view of the Lovers is worth discussing. I really hate the myth of the Soul mate, the perfect person… Read more »
The Chariot
The Chariot The Chariot shows a man driving a chariot, pulled by two animals, usually a black horse and a white horse, almost invariably without reins. He is steering them just by the power of the mind. This is a card that has varied from deck to deck, but not changed much in its subject…. Read more »
The Lovers
The Lovers In the older, Marseilles tarot decks, a Man is caught between two women. A dark-haired, often older person, and a younger, lighter haired woman. The title of this card was sometimes called “the Choice”. The Man had to make a choice: between an “earthy,” probably sinful person, and a “purer,” light haired–probably light… Read more »
The Hierophant
The Hierophant Traditionally, the Hierophant is the intermediary or interpreter between the worshiper and the their deity. Who ever or what ever that is. Before this century, most decks called him the Pope. To most modern readers, this is mostly a negative card, referring to the “Keeper of the Keys”–again the Pope, who was the… Read more »