Category: Tarot

Tarot

Tarot History

Origins of Cartomancy: The 15th Century

1414 Barcelona – Joch de nayps moreschs Two Barcelona inventories have entries for “joch de nayps (or ‘nahyps’) moreschs”. The Instituto Municipal de Historia in Barcelona…...

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Tarot Card Meanings

The Major Arcana as “Dining Experience”

AUTHOR’S NOTE: In 2022, I satirized Douglas Adams’ already-satirical novel, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (see the link below), in which a talking…...

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Tarot Predictions

Thoughts on Risky Predictions

Is “Might” Safer Than “Must?” – Thoughts on Risky Predictions “. . . does precognition perceive the actual future, the one that must occur, or does it perceive…...

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Tarot Card Meanings

The Approximate Tarot Reader

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Those tarot readers who use decks with non-scenic or semi-scenic minor cards are already masters of approximation since they aren’t being steered by…...

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Tarot Predictions

Prediction or Insight?

Is prediction what tarot reading is all about? What if it is not to learn that a particular thing is going to happen but, rather,…...

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Tarot Card Meanings

Artificial Intelligence Identifies as the Hermit

I was reading tarot cards for a client recently, a self-employed entrepreneur who uses AI for much of her writing and website design. She asked…...

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Tarot Predictions

Public Figures and Personal Privacy in Divination

AUTHOR’S NOTE: In his book Tarot Reading Explained, James Ricklef mentioned that, when he began practicing tarot divination on prominent public figures in support of his…...

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Tarot Spreads

Oswald Wirth’s Tarot Spread

Here’s a classic “reclaimed spread” in the form of a five-card cross that is most often found in French and continental Tarot books. The version…...

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Translating Images in a Tarot Reading

Much is made of how tarot cards can be interpreted through their images or symbols—especially modern decks that feature pictorial scenes with lots of  images…...

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