In a series of articles, I examine the questions that the Tarot poses to us for our growth, development and healing. The questions I suggest here are a spring board for your own thoughts and the lists I've presented aren't exhaustive by any means. You will find different decks, quite naturally, pose slightly different questions … Continue reading Slow Tarot – The Questions Asked in the Major Arcana
I posted what you see below on Facebook this morning, and thought that some explanation might be helpful. If you prefer the spoken word, you can listen to the pocast here "Over the years of working with cards it dawned on me that the Tarot is mainly being used as a fortune telling device. A tool … Continue reading The Major Arcana as Superpowers
You know what it's like, your spiritual side perks up and you start to realise that there's so much more to life, the universe and everything than you ever thought possible. You start to explore and then discover that spiritual stuff comes with a whole load of 'stuff'. Who'd have thunk it? Crystals by the … Continue reading Spiritual Stuff Without All Of That ‘Stuff’
The court cards are the personalities of the Tarot. All of us contain a bit of each in our own personalities to a greater or lesser degree. It's not too difficult to spot this in ourselves or others closest to us, but perhaps more difficult to see in others. When we look at others we … Continue reading The Court of the Tarot, their Personality. Suit and Element Continued
The Tarot deck is a deck of seventy eight (at least seventy eight, sometimes more, but any less and the cards aren't Tarot). The seventy eight cards are split into two, the twenty two cards of the Major Arcana and the fifty six of the Minor Arcana. The fifty six cards of the Minor Arcana … Continue reading Suit and Element in the Numbered Cards of the Tarot
Fewer tarot decks. Less space. Careful purchasing. Ecologically mindful. In depth awareness of the messages of the cards. A raise of the rude finger to the materialism machine. I'm not talking about one deck forever. I'm talking about a carefully created clutch of divination loveliness put together not on a tide of want, but in … Continue reading Tarot Cards – Making the Case For Less
Tell me about the nature of the void The whole spread is black - dark, velvet. Unseeable. Inward and quiet. What activity, what beings, what things does the dark conceal? Leah at the head, looking down on the whole spread suggests that the void is a place of vision and dream, creativity, imagination, intuition and … Continue reading The Nature of the Void
