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Why Does Tarot Have 78 Cards?

Why Does Tarot Have 78 Cards?

If you do a search on Google for ‘Tarot reading for beginners’ you’ll get 77,100,000 listings to look through. I trudged my way through the top 10 listings — it was an agonising way to spend an hour!  Maybe I’ve just become too critical and cynical in my old age, but...

Interview with Rachel Pollack

Interview with Rachel Pollack

In 2008, Rachel Pollack (Tarot author) was in Adelaide, South Australia, for some workshops. I was able to catch up with her for a quick interview about her first book on Tarot. Don: Your book ‘Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom’ has been around for over 25 years. When...

Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom: Book Review

Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom: Book Review

Rachel Pollack is a prolific author. Her science fiction novel ‘Unquenchable Fire’ won the 1989 Arthur C. Clarke award, and her book ‘Godmother Night’ won the 1997 World Fantasy Award. But it’s her knowledge of Tarot card meanings that has made her such a star of the...

21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card: Book Review

21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card: Book Review

If you are not good at Tarot reading by the time you’ve finished this book, then you should have chosen to learn a different form of divination. Because if you followed the steps involved in Mary K Greer’s hefty book (over 300 pages) and you still can’t tell a fool...

Tarot Reading for Motivation and Guidance

Tarot Reading for Motivation and Guidance

Tarot cards show how circumstances have accumulated and brought you to a certain point. They can also reveal if a particular pattern of thought or behaviour led you into the difficulties you face. With this guidance you can gain the insight you need to reclaim your...

Tarot for Clarity & Action

Tarot for Clarity & Action

When life is spinning out of control, people are more likely to dust off their Tarot cards and look into the future for clarification or reassurance. Tarot is very useful in such stressful times, as it can give some hope for change. But don’t forget to drag those...

Tarot Conference 1997

Tarot Conference 1997

I just found some notes about when I attended Australia’s first International Tarot Conference, which was held in Victoria, Australia, in 1997. They brought back great memories of an event that helped to shape my current Tarot reading style. The conference featured...

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Welcome!

I'm so pleased that you decided to drop by and explore the exciting world of Tarot with me. Together, we'll journey through a symbolic, colourful adventure into the use of Tarot cards for readings, meditation, and personal insight. But this blog is not just a rave...

Interview with Ciro Marchetti

Over ten years ago, when Llewellyn Publications asked Ciro Marchetti to do the artwork for a new deck (The Gilded Tarot) he didn’t know anything about Tarot, but he’s come a long way since then. I had the pleasure of meeting Ciro at the UK Tarot Conference in 2013....

An Interview with a Tarot Deck Creator: Zach Wong

When laying Tarot cards into a spread, a different interpretation is sometimes given to cards turning up ‘reversed’ or up-side-down. People give inverted cards an opposing interpretation to an upright one, or they say the impact of the card’s usual meaning is...

Paul Fenton-Smith Interview

While Paul Fenton-Smith was visiting Adelaide, I had the chance to ask him a few questions about Tarot. Some of the questions were serious, and some were frivolous, but Paul was gracious enough to respond to all of them with the following answers… Don: What do you...

Interview with Rachel Pollack

In 2008, Rachel Pollack (Tarot author) was in Adelaide, South Australia, for some workshops. I was able to catch up with her for a quick interview about her first book on Tarot. Don: Your book ‘Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom’ has been around for over 25 years. When...

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