On this day, 163 years ago, in Brooklyn Arthur Edward Waite entered the world. For the first time? Who knows! His father died when he was very young, so his mother returned to her homeland, England, taking the young Arthur with her. It was the death of his sister in 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…
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…
We began this Comparative Tarot session with a look at the Page of Swords, over three decks. Today we look at the Page of Wands, trying to find common ground and extend our perceptions as to what he might mean in the decks that we use ourselves. On the left Read more…
I’m running a workshop for the Glasgow Tarot Meetup Group at the beginning of April on using the comparative method of working with the Tarot. I first heard about this method from Valerie Sim and the Comparative Tarot deck that she created specially for it. I though that it would Read more…