One of the geniuses of the Rider-Waite-Smith deck is the story-telling qualities of the Minor Arcana. Each card can tell a story, but a sometimes...
AUTHOR’S NOTE: I’m not proposing that there are “scientific” answers to these questions but, humans being the insatiably curious and highly critical creatures that we...
AUTHOR’S NOTE: I believe I’ve found the perfect aphorism to describe the art of tarot reading. It was in a 1989 short story by science-fiction...
I’m a firm believer in learning by doing, and getting to know the components of your deck is no exception. This can also be a...
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...
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn introduced what I consider the most extensive and elegant set of correspondences among the tarot and other magical...
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Most of us have felt the quandary expressed in the trope “I know the name but I can’t put a face to it.”...
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,...
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Here is another essay prompted by a “frequently asked question” from the online tarot community. Tarot beginners who follow the conventional wisdom of...
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...