Chiron, the planet of tarot readers. The asteroid Chiron was first recorded in mid-October 1977. Its orbit marks a liminal and erratic path between Saturn...
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Here I’m nibbling around the edges of Aleister Crowley’s magickal formula, “0=2,” which I’ve always assumed to be purely Qabalistic, but that I...
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...
AUTHOR’S NOTE: I’m currently working my way through the court-card section of Benebell Wen’s Holistic Tarot, and one of her observations struck an agreeable chord: the...
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...
The Realist Bids Farewell to the Romantic (or “Don’t Call Me, I’ll Call You”) AUTHOR’S NOTE: I was recently cautioned against performing the kind of investigative...
AUTHOR’S NOTE: I can’t quite fathom why anyone would think that the intrusion of AI (artificial intelligence) technology into the art of divination is desirable....
AUTHOR’S NOTE: While answering a career-related question in one of the online tarot communities, I was inspired to develop a spread that is based on...
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...