Tarot

Most people know that tarot cards are about as evil as coloring books. Instead of being tools of some satanic force, they're simply pieces of cardboard with pictures that help to trigger intuition. The more intuitive a reader is, and the more they know the cards and have established a dependable system to use them, the more accurate their readings are. Of course, the question for the tarot reader is important too. General, unfocussed, or trivial questions tend to get poor results. Specific questions tend to get specific answers. Questions such as "Will I be rich?" or "When will I meet my soul mate?" ... Read Full Story

By Scott Petullo Most people know that tarot cards are about as evil as coloring books. Instead of being tools of some satanic force, they're simply pieces of cardboard with pictures that help to trigger intuition. The more intuitive a reader is, and the more they know the cards and have established a dependable system to use them, the more accurate their readings are. Of course, the question for the tarot reader is important too. General, unfocussed, or trivial questions tend to get poor results. Specific questions tend to get specific answers. Questions such as "Will I be rich?" or "When will I meet ... Read Full Story

Most people know that tarot cards are about as evil as coloring books. Instead of being tools of some satanic force, they’re simply pieces of cardboard with pictures that help to trigger intuition. The more intuitive a reader is, and the more they know the cards and have established a dependable system to use them, the more accurate their readings are. Of course, the question for the tarot reader is important too. General, unfocussed, or trivial questions tend to get poor results. Specific questions tend to get specific answers. Questions such as “Will I be rich?” or “When will I meet my soul mate?” ... Read Full Story

Marie-Anne Lenormand, a famous French card reader, was said to have read for many famous people, including Napoleon and Josephine, Marat, Robespierre, St-Just,and Czar Alexander. When she died in 1843, her estate contained 120,00 francs, another indication of her success, and she is buried in Paris' Père Lachaise Cemetery, which is the final resting place of many famous French people. She used a deck of her own design, consisting of 36 cards. Various versions of these are still available, usually from the Grimaud publishing company in France. And there are companies such as Piatnik in Austria which have produced fortune telling decks based on ... Read Full Story

The Chariot In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all of them came first. -- Harry Truman F or the first time in all these years of my posts, we are visited by The Chariot . How perfect that it appears this week, as we enter the time of Samhain and stand between the worlds, for it is truly the archetypal transport for carrying us into the dark half of the year. The Chariot is the number seven of the Major Arcana. Of course, seven is a most magical number of luck, ... Read Full Story

What is Tarot? Tarot (also known as Tarock, Tarokk, Taroky, Taroc, Tarok, Tarocchi and similar names) is a family of trick taking card games played with an enlarged deck of 78 cards which include an extra court card for each of the four regular suits, a permanent trump suit of 21 cards, and a kind of "wild card" called "the Fool" or "Excuse." Although seen primarily by many as a means of fortune telling or divination, the Tarot deck was created in northern Italy during the 15th century for playing card games. The notion of a trump suit which survives in such popular card ... Read Full Story

You wouldn't know this without me telling you, but one of my daily uses of the tarot is to let it inspire my writing every day. Sometimes when I am mulling over different ideas and thinking about what to write, I draw some cards and make a spread, and that points me in a direction or helps me choose between the various possibilities. Those of you who only think of tarot as a fortune teller's tool might be pleasantly surprised at how well it works as a self teaching guide. If you draw one card or several with the intention of finding a life ... Read Full Story