*Riffing on the song Money for Nothing by Dire Straits AUTHOR’S NOTE: In Liber T, the Order’s tarot curriculum, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn assigned esoteric...
I asked a group of tarot readers on Facebook to give their top advice for how to combine and integrate card meanings in a spread....
AUTHOR’S NOTE: The hierarchy of cards in a tarot reading is one feature that can be used in crafting a narrative, but it isn’t always...
This is an adaptation of an article I wrote quite a few years ago while in the midst of my studies of alchemy in the...
AUTHOR’S NOTE: A couple of years ago I performed a careful analysis of the Waite-Smith tarot to determine which cards express some kind of active...
AUTHOR’S NOTE: In Tarot Architect, Lon Milo DuQuette describes the Ace of Wands as the “Seed of Will” that carries the blueprint for purposeful action....
Few things are more exciting to me than stumbling across a text or image that perfectly reflects a tarot card, especially when it makes me...
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Not so long ago (before purely psychic free-association became fashionable among “pop-tarot” practitioners), tarot reading was a matter of deciphering complex images to...
AUTHOR’S NOTE: The title of this essay was inspired by the Pink Floyd song “On the Turning Away,” although my use of the idea isn’t...
This is about the Oedipus cycle viewed through the lens of Tarot’s Major Arcana, culminating in the realization of Oedipus’s apotheosis and a nuanced exploration...