Every Sunday I (try to!) switch off the computer and rely on good ol’ fashioned real life to keep me entertained. This used to include reading the Sunday papers with a leisurely coffee and a wee bit of laid-back Spotify, but no more – it’s all doom, gloom, Brexit and The Great Orange Trumpet in the papers, so they are Read more…
A useful technique to add to your Tarot tool box of skills is looking for a Secret Path between the cards. This is an idea that I first heard about years ago in a book called The Secret Language of Tarot by Ruth and Wald Amberstone. A Secret Path is where you can link the symbolism of one card directly Read more…
Spotted this description of personality types in Thalassa Therese’s timeline this morning on Facebook – the 17 Genders as per the Regles de Composition by Marc Antoine Charpentier, 1682. Of course, we know already that the sexes of the characters in the Court Cards has no bearing at all on the SEX of the personality type being discussed in a Read more…
I am a huge fan of the Pagan Otherworlds Tarot, by Peter Dunham and Linnea Gits at Uusi Studios. So, when they announced a new Oracle deck, to be funded via kickstarter,I thrust my little paw into the air as quickly as possible! I signed up for the Supra Oracle deck and the accompanying book, both for sale separately. The Read more…
Advice from the Page of Wands when moving your tarot blog from Blogger to Wordpress!
Just a bit of Tarot Court Card fun to start us thinking about what we want for ourselves in 2019. I’ve done this for the past three years or so and it’s just a bit of fun, not rooted in any deep and meaningful ancient system. Just my own 🙂 So, you might be working out your Major Arcana card Read more…
So, Thursday rolled around – the date that we’d all been dreading – the day that my mother was moving to an apartment in an ‘independent living’ complex. Why the dread? The flat is lovely and I expect her to be much happier living there with lots of people around her and lots of emergency cords in case she has Read more…
I have not seen this one up for sale before; the King of Coins image by Salvador Dali … of Salvador Dali as the King of Coins.
Golly, this is one for those with very deep pockets! A set of 23 tarot cards (all the Majors plus a Significator, possibly?) that are up for sale at the moment here. This collection of cards is called The Makarevich Tarot. The lot also comprises of a cover sheet and are presented in a silk covered hard case, each mounted Read more…