Four chaps in leather. You’re welcome. As the year draws to a shuddering ( and mostly welcome) end, I thought I’d close the year with a quick run down on the Top 10 most visited posts on my blog. So, here they are: 10 – Slipping in at number 10 Read more…
So, over on Facebook I try to do Interesting Things with court cards that help fellow readers become more confident with their court card work. My most recent week was spent in the company of The Wizards’ Tarot (Llewellyn) by Corrine Kenner which is a really pretty deck. In fact, Read more…
Sometimes I sign up for Kickstarter Tarot campaigns and forget all about them until a little package plops onto the doormat many months later. No such casual forgetfulness with the Pagan Otherworlds Tarot by Uusi in the US. TABI backed this particular deck and I thought that it was worth Read more…
If I were to ask you to lay out the your favourite tarot deck in order, how would you do it? Would you lay out the Major Arcana from The Fool to The World and then dive into the Minor Arcana via an Ace from one of the suits? And Read more…
Let’s just get something sorted, right away: If you like large liquid eyes and cupid’s-bow mouths, you are going to love this deck. If you don’t, well, loving it is going to be a big ask. Think ‘The Crying Boy’ painting meets Crowley 🙂 Published by Schiffer, the author of Read more…
Sometimes my friend Gav is the worst enabler in the world. And by that I mean that he is the BEST enabler in the world. It was Gav that alerted me to this deck by illustrator Noa Ikeda. And now I want it. More than oxygen. Or Biscuits. I love Read more…
Last week I wrote about the King of Wands and how A E Waite saw this card as the stepping stone from the glory of the Major Arcana to the mundanity of the Minor Arcana. Today I thought I’d expand on this and show you how I am using Read more…
As one of the organisers, you need to be up bright and early to make sure that all is going according to plan. Witness the breakfast table at 8am: Late night in bar = this breakfast table Yes, that’s my lonesome plate of food 😀 Anyway, Caroline materialised soon afterwards Read more…
‘Back to the ferry – and don’t spare the horses!’ Although our annual Tarot gig in Birmingham didn’t kick off until Friday afternoon, my journey began the previous day as I decanted my son and dog up to my mother’s so that I could make an early start. We arrived Read more…