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Musings on Tarot: The Intuitive Tarot
Most people take the tarot way too seriously. They make a big ceremony of taking their tarot cards out of their hand-carved wooden box, waving sage and crystals over them, chanting. You know what I mean. Maybe you do this too. I’m not saying it’s wrong, but I have had some of my favorite tarot…...
Musings on Tarot: Touchstone Tarot
When I began to teach beginning Tarot classes, I would send a list of about ten acceptable Tarot decks. Little by little, class by class, I found issues with certain cards and eliminated their respective decks from my list. I love tarot decks and there are thousands to choose from now. Most people like to…...
Review of The Bohemian Gothic Tarot Deck
I hope the beginning of your new year was peaceful and exciting—a difficult feat to accomplish simultaneously but a rewarding goal for 2024. At the end of 2023 I gushed about my favorite Tarot company Baba Studios, and how I pre-ordered one of their last new Tarot projects, the release of the deluxe edition of The…...
The New Year Tarot Spread
I love the idea of a really comprehensive New Year tarot layout, one that would act almost as a template for the next yearly cycle. I started searching my notes for a good one when this spread popped into my mailbox from Biddy Tarot. This twelve-card New Year tarot spread is close to perfect, acknowledging…...
Astrocartography: Every Place is Good for Something
Why is everyone talking about astrocartography? A little info about the astrocartography experience. Many years ago when I decided to get serious about my astrology reading practice, I got a PC and started searching for programs. At that time I could not find any good Mac-based programs but I did find lots of astrology…...
Book Recommendations for Your Sun Sign in 2024
We will all welcome the new energy 2024 brings, especially during the first half of the year. We feel a strong need to establish ourselves, build something solid, and unapologetically embrace comfort and security. We attract the most good fortune by being steady, charitable, and generous. We can pursue our goals in a more leisurely…...
Musings on Tarot: Bababarock Studio
One of the best creators and publishers of modern Tarot decks, IMHO, is BabaBarock Studio and their Magic Realism Press, (previously known as Baba Studio): I got my first deck by this company (then known as Baba Studio) at the local Austin store BookPeople many years ago, and a ‘Tarot of Prague” deck like my…...
Musings on Oracles: Moonology Oracle cards
Recently I was invited to speak at an all-day women’s conference in Johnson City called ‘Soul Reset’. My subject was not ‘The Tarot’ as one might expect, but ‘The Moon’, its placement in our birth charts, and how that placement affects us in our daily lives. In typical Scorpio fashion I used this conference as an excuse to…...
Musings on Tarot: The Forest of Enchantment Tarot
I recently came across an interesting artist from Suffolk, UK, Meraylah Allwood. Allwood is an illustrator and miniaturist, an active member of the Royal Miniature Society, and even exhibits her tiny paintings at their annual exhibition in London. This is someone whose work I easily recognized because they have apparently been illustrating books for Llewellyn…...
Musings on Tarot: The Victorian Romantic Tarot Mini Deck
Recently there was an interesting conversational thread on Facebook. Someone posted that their sister went through all her books and lectured her about buying books she wasn’t reading. Lots of opinions about that nosey sister, I can tell you, but my favorite comment on the whole thread was mine of course. My take on this…...
