OOTK. I know. It sounds like something an orangutang might say if it happened to be the librarian at a University for Wizards* but in this case it stands for Opening Of The Key. And it’s a Tarot spread. The whole OOTK shebang involves four stages, but today, we are Read more…
I usually draw these cards based on the Dark Moon (incoming energies) and the Full Moon (outgoing energies) in the evening, once my son has gone to bed. But our term time routine is now upset and it will take us a week or so to create a Summer Holiday Read more…
I’m always on the look-out for something interesting for you and this morning I discovered this: Dame Fortune’s Wheel Tarot by Paul Huson (published by Lo Scarabeo) actually has a Significator card! Of course, you may still select a Significator using whichever method you prefer, but what a time- and Read more…
I know that this post is a little late, but I didn’t want the Summer Solstice blog post and the Incoming influences card post to overlap too much, so I held the Incoming Influences card reading over until this week. I feel weird. And sad. At the end of this Read more…
Welcome to This Game of Thrones, my blog about the Court Cards of the Tarot. Chances are you have alighted here as a stop on the Tarot Blog Hop from either Donna Faber’s blog or Priestess Tarot’s blog. Heck, perhaps you wafted in here from Twitter or Facebook links and haven’t a Read more…
Today I thought I’d introduce you to the Court Cards of the Secret Language of Birds Tarot by Adele Nozedar and Linda Sutton (artist). Before we talk about the Courts in this deck, you will see that this suit, Cups, is entitled Coppe. Adele pays tribute to the Italian 15th Read more…
The Queen of Swords fromMarie White’s Mary-El TarotPublished by Schiffer I once did a Tarot reading for a newly-engaged lady and in her Celtic Cross spread, there were NINE court cards. NINE!!! Once I had dragged myself up off the floor and wiped the tears from my panic-stricken eyes, I Read more…
Did you miss me? I took myself (and family) off to Blackpool for a few days so that my son had a better memory of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee than just a day off school. Ever diligent, I took my laptop with me, but when your hotel overlooks Blackpool Pleasure Read more…
I’ve already written at length (ad nauseum?!) about various methods of finding a Significator for your sitter (or yourself) and in one of the resulting blog post comments, Chloe McCracken mentioned a way to use them that I thought was GREAT and am going to share with you here. By Read more…
This week my blog posts have focussed on animal court cards – the Rabbit Tarot, the Ferret Tarot and now, the daddy of them all, the Wildwood Tarot Courts – every one of them a stunningly represented animal native to Northern Europe. The deck, created by Mark Ryan and John Read more…