The first time I saw the Bianco Nero Tarot ‘in the wild’ was on a facebook post by Serge Pirotte. Immediately smitten by this monochrome deck, I messaged my son with a link to the deck and asked him to get it for me for Christmas. Which he did! The Read more…
I have tried so hard to get to grips with The Gypsy Witch deck (US Games Systems Ltd) I really have. I took a beginner’s course last year with Brant Williams via the WDA which certainly got me off the blocks, but I still couldn’t read with any degree of Read more…
What’s the difference between the Vernal or Spring Equinox and the actual day when hours of light and hours of darkness are about the same
As the year draws to a close and sinks towards the horizon, we turn our hopeful faces towards the rising year of 2021. It’s a time for new beginnings and plans and, for the first time in almost a year, our hopes for the future!
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You may already be familiar with The Esotoracle (UK-based) and The Cartomancer (US-based) magazines but there is a new Tarot mag kid in town, Total Tarot. What sets Total Tarot apart from the other two marvellous magazines is that it has exclusive links with the well-known publishing house, Lo Scarabeo. Read more…
The other day I spotted that a new Tarot deck was in the making from those fine folks at Three Trees Tarot and I gleefully reposted their lovely image of the cards being painted, on Instagram. Unfortunately, when the image shared to my instagram feed, there was no attribution to Read more…
I have got an instagram account, but not really put much effort into it to date. But at the beginning of June, I decided to focus my Tarot court card efforts there. By the way, are we friends over there? No? Let’s get that heckin’ SORTED asap. I’m @alisoncrosstarot so Read more…
Sometimes in a reading, the subject of self care can come up. This might be as straightforward as a positional value within the spread called ‘self care suggestions’ or it might be when you are summing up the reading and giving your client some suggestions on what might be useful Read more…
This idea that PCS was bi-racial does the rounds from time to time and it’s something I’ve always wondered about myself. Time to do a spot of detective work on the ol’ intertubes. What do we know? From Pamela Colman-Smith’s wiki page, we think that her mother was from Jamaica Read more…
So, I’m an admin for The Wildwood Tarot’s fb page and website. There are a lot of counterfeit decks out there. I made a video (8 mins?) to help you sift the fakes from the genuines. I hope it helps.