Most readers learn the thirty-six numbered pip cards as a grab-bag of small scenes · a heart with three swords in it, a man walking away from some cups. But a hundred and thirty years

AUTHOR’S NOTE: A popular opinion among mystical tarot readers is that formal (aka “positional”) spreads are too rigid and therefore hamper performance of the fluid, freestyle interpretation those practitioners favor. As a long-time creator of

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Not long ago I read a psychological article that described personality as being innate or instinctual, while character develops gradually over time through repetitive experiences that eventually solidify into a Pavlovian “conditioned response.”

AUTHOR’S NOTE: In my opinion, the one-card pull as a daily reading practice is relatively useless except as a way to show the environmental backdrop or atmosphere of the forthcoming 24-hour period. It is static