I was recently contacted by a lovely person on Facebook, Arthur, who asked about Court cards and links to other cards that shared the same numbers…. Traditionally, of course, Court cards are not numbered, but if they WERE numbered they could follow straight on from the Ten, resulting in: 11 Read more…
Click on image to visit site Since I started this blog, I have been ferreting out different ways to help you choose a significator for your client (or yourself!) in your Tarot work. Here’s another method: Philip and Stephanie Carr Gomm have devised two sets of questions that help you Read more…
Whose favourite Druidcraft Tarot card is this, The Princess of Swords? Hot on the heels of the Carr-Gomms’ highly successful Druidcraft video-conference sessions hosted by Linda Marson at GlobaI Spiritual Studies, I was very honoured when they both took time out of their busy schedules to answer some questions for Tarot Thrones Read more…
So, I am hideously casual with my jewellery. I have lost count of the number of times I have been sound asleep in bed only to bolt awake and upright thinking: “WHERE IS MY PENDANT?! I HAVEN’T SEEN IT IN YEARS!” and yes, it all happens in those horrible shouty Read more…
Authority, father energy, leadership and boundaries – all features of the Tarot King
I send out a monthly newsletter from Tarot Thrones called The Little White Newsletter. Every month someone in the Tarot biz makes a recommendation on a deck and/or book that they want to share with their Tarot peers. This month, author of the forthcoming book Angel Prayers and BIG Read more…
Mother energy, guidance, protection and teaching – all energies we associate with the Tarots Queens.
Once upon a time, in Ye Olde ynd Merrye Englande of around 1300 (the year, not the time) the word ‘knighthood’ or ‘cnihthād’ * referred to the period that we call ‘adolescence’ today. We more readily associate the idea of ‘knight’ with strapping chaps on horseback – armour, jousting, chivalry Read more…
Back in the day, the well-to-do Late Medieval/Early Renaissance family with connections would find a place for their son within the household of the local aristocracy. Daughters? Not so much.
The boys, usually between the ages of 7 and 14 were promptly dispatched to what we fondly call here on the island The Big Hoose. There they were allocated positions within the ‘court’. Mostly they were apprenticed to Knights or acted as a Very Early Internet System (ie delivering messages). Their tasks were mainly minor and uncomplicated *thinks of own Son at seven years of age and how he could barely be trusted to flush the toilet after him at that age. That’s still a work in progress to be honest.)