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The Women of the Tarot
Tarot is filled with images of beautiful women. One is draped in ritual robes, another is taming a lion, and many are naked! Who are the women of the Tarot and what do they represent? When you first look at Tarot cards you might think they are just pretty pictures,...
The Hierophant and the Banjo
Here’s a bit of Tarot fun featuring The Hierophant… When I am preparing my Tarot blog posts, my thoughts become fixated on the card I’m writing about. I look for corresponding images I might be able to include in articles, and I keep my eyes and ears open for quotes,...
Tarot Meditation with Affirmations
I’ve created a video clip of a Tarot meditation filled with spiritual affirmations. Settle back and take a relaxing journey through the Major Arcana of the Tarot. Listen to peaceful music as you view the Tarot cards which are accompanied by uplifting words. Repeat...
Tarot Talk in Adelaide
A recent Tarot talk I gave in Adelaide was called ‘Tarot Made Simple’. The spiritual essence of Tarot was briefly covered in this presentation, and it drew such favourable discussion amongst the group that I thought I’d share parts of my notes on this subject in a...
Fate, Destiny and Free Will
I’ve just found a beautiful explanation for the difference between ‘fate’ and ‘destiny’. It was written by Caitlin Matthews for edition 37 of ‘The Magician’ — the journal for The Tarot Guild of Australia. “Fate is that which we cannot alter – e.g. our place of birth...
Invocation to The Empress
I was recently invited to give a talk about ‘The Women of the Tarot’. At the end of this event, I put together a small ritual to help participants connect with Goddess energies. Here’s the invocation to The Empress that I wrote for this occasion. If you would like to...
The Power of the Aces
I like it when an Ace turns up in a Tarot reading — it’s an indication that fresh, new energies are about to enter your life. All of the Aces represent new beginnings. Aces are powerful cards promising achievement. They are filled with the primal force of each suit’s...
Using Inspiration and Intuition in a Tarot Reading
People can usually associate their basic nature with the energies of one of the Tarot’s suits. I was describing the suit of Wands to someone the other day, and I said that people who are linked to this suit tend to have flashes of inspiration when they are busy...
Symbols & the Subconscious Mind
Regardless of whether you consciously hunt for symbols in Tarot cards, or just get an intuitive flash of inspiration for a card’s meaning, the process is the same: your mind notices a symbol on the card and gives your subconscious a poke in the right direction....
Tarot and Fate and Free Will
Can Tarot cards tell you what is going to happen in the future? Does a Tarot reading show an unalterable fate? Tarot can definitely give you an indication of possible outcomes, but you are not stuck with those predictions. You always have free will to change the...
The Magician is the Trickster of the Tarot
In the earliest Tarot cards, The Magician was depicted as a medieval fairground hustler, performing sleight of hand and illusion. How did he end up becoming such a creative, dynamic force within the modern Tarot? ‘Mountebank’ was a word originally associated with this...
How to Shuffle Tarot Cards
To get the best results from a Tarot reading, shuffle your cards with mindfulness. During the shuffle of the cards, your subconscious is using your hands to place the selected cards into a sequence of appropriate images as an answer to your query, so give yourself...
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...
Rachel Pollack’s Book: Tarot Wisdom
“The application to Tarot is clear. It offers us a great gift, a way to understand the wonders of life, a form of guidance when events or our own souls trouble us. To receive that gift, we must open ourselves — not just emotionally, but also conceptually.” ~ Rachel...
Ten Things You Didn’t Want to Know About Tarot
Do you like Tarot because of its aura of mystery, for its esoteric history, or because of its magical qualities? If you think Tarot is special because of one of those reasons, then you are not going like what I have to say in this article. I’m going to be looking at...