BUT CAN YOU DIVINE WITH IT?

On a crucial difference between collectors and diviners. K. Frank Jensen and I would not agree on everything. But fun we had in the process.

THE FLOW OF FIRE

Thoughts by a coffin. K. Frank Jensen and his love.

HOW TO DREAM UP A THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE

A rare view of a rare deck of cards. Pamela Colman Smith close-up, and a dream of theatre.

SPIRIT COURT

We all know it, and if we don’t all know it, we all feel it, and if we don’t all feel it, we all think it, and if we don’t all think it, we all desire it: A strong connection to the unseen, to the ones who came before us.

TAROT FOR DIPLOMATS

Tarot at RUC: A Diplomatic Encounter On Tuesday the 14th of April 2015 Roskilde University Library has hosted an unusual event. A group of 13 diplomats and ambassadors representing 13 countries participated in a 4-hour lecture on the historical and cultural significance of the tarot cards. Some 2 years ago the university took over the

THE SHINING

I’m calling my post today The Shining, to allude to the horror book by Stephen King, but I could just as well have called it The Fiddling. It may well be that I’ve just finished writing a whole book using images from the unknown and unseen Marseille Tarot of Carolus Zoya, but somehow, and for

TIRONIAN LENORMAND REVISITED

I have written about the so-called Tironian Lenormand cards before, in connection with a lovely gift from collector K. Frank Jensen. On that occasion I suggested, tongue-in-cheek, that these mysterious cards, featuring strange symbols in the place of where we otherwise find playing-card insets, are actually monograms. Today I’ve played with these cards for a

TAROT: BETWEEN ART AND MONEY

While playing with some funny cards, it occurred to me that today is Pixi’s birthday. Pamela Colman Smith, the Grand Lady of Tarot, and one who turned a marginal art into commerce. A great genius. Historians of tarot love to hate this woman and her involvement with the Golden Dawn. Was she an enlightened woman

RED WIRTH

While pondering my academic life, it occurred to me that both my lowest and my highest university degrees (an MA in Aalborg and a Dr. Phil. (Habil.) in Roskilde) were awarded by two Marxist universities. I had a short stint at the University of Odense where I was awarded a PhD degree some 12 years ago,

BIRTHDAY

Today is my friend’s birthday. A woman well-known to some in the cartomantic community. Witta Kiessling Jensen, artist and wife of the famed collector K. Frank Jensen, is a woman of power. Not many can celebrate their 72nd birthday on a new moon. Something new must be made for her. I got up and decided