TAROTIST: A NAME

In the latest issue of The Playing-Card Thierry Depaulis makes the following remark in a footnote on the first page of his essay: “The Tarot de Marseille: Facts and Fallacies” pertaining to the meaning of ‘Tarotist’. While he rightly points out one of the cultural differences between the different approaches to tarot, he neglects to

BOTTOM-LINES

Often in my consultancy with cards I find myself in a state of exasperation. ‘Decision-making is enabled by looking at the bottom-line. You can’t run from the bottom-line,’ I tell people, and they retort, ‘But that’s the problem. I don’t know what the bottom-line is.’ Fair enough. Personally, and giving my experiences and inclinations, I

HAWKS

The sky is still clear and the moon is about to rise. Up here in the North the moon is always special. Even two days after it’s been full. The events around the full moon in Norway smell good to me. And this has to do with my heightened awareness of how the material world

TAROT AND MAGIC

Magic and ethics, that’s the question, or is it? Although I don’t want to make a big fuss about it, I want to make a quick point that might inspire others to think about what they are saying when they utter the words ‘magic and ethics.’ While I have been fortunate enough to have undergone

ICE-AGE RUNES

As I often think of what my father would have been like at my age – he died at 39 and I’m very close to 45 – I find myself strange places and feeling his force. Well, he worked for the armed forces, so perhaps therefore. But above all he was a mathematician. And to

TAROT LENORMAND: SYMBOLISM OR LITERALISM?

The Tarot is symbolic and the Lenormand is not? Let us have a big fat laugh at this dumb idea.

NO DIFFERENCE

Today a post about the importance of the question. In all of my posts so far, I’d be surprised if I found one in which I don’t say it straight out or at least suggest it once more: never read cards without a question, lest you want to be all over the place. Some would

BLIND SPOT: Are you a fortuneteller or a psychic?

You’re a fortuneteller? Good. You’re a fortuneteller AND a psychic? Even better. But why?