Today is the Autumn Equinox and the ringing of this celestial alarm clock that tells us that the sun is heading south across the equator and that our nights will, once again, be drawing in. Interestingly, the period where the hours of almost equal light and darkness takes place (for me here in Scotland, anyway) on the 25th of September, Read more…
It may have taken two Kickstarter campaigns, but The Stolen Child Tarot has now been printed, boxed and delivered to the lucky backers! What a lovely deck it is! This is a 78-card, fully-illustrated deck, beautifully presented in a flip top box with a magnetic lid. There are two other additional cards – one called Topsy Turvey, which I think Read more…
This is the first edition of Benbell’s Spirit Keeper’s Tarot deck and it’s not so much a Tarot deck as an entire Tarot universe, presented in a set of cards.
But, let’s start with the basics: the box is super-sturdy with a lift off top, in black with white detail – very striking. Inside you get a copy of the deck and a substantial Little White Book (80 pages).
Carrie Paris is a creative powerhouse, no question! Her latest creation is The Relative Tarot and it’s her first time raising funds via Kickstarter. When I saw the project it was 98% funded with a month still to run. We are now a couple of days further down the line and the Relative Tarot is now 100% funded! I’m a Read more…
Another day, another personality quiz hits the internet and I am, of course, obsessed with how these things reflect on the Court Cards – especially if we’re talking about 16 personalities! I took the test (it’s on an agree/disagree scale) and ended up with the Advocate personality type. This is INFJ-T with a strategy for constant improvement. Which sounds like Read more…
One of the documents that historian Franco Pratesi found in the Library at Bologna University was 4029 Caps 119R. It is, as far as I am aware, the earliest written record of divinatory meanings associated with the Tarot of Bologna. The documents all date from the mid 18th century, which makes it about 40 years earlier than Etteilla’s writings on Read more…
Adobe has come up with a fun quiz – with excellent graphics – to help you not only identify which creative type you might be, but also which other type you would collaborate well. I thought that it might be fun to try to map them to the court cards! Take the Quiz! Which one are you?! There are 8 Read more…
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…
