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

HOTPLATE TAROT

Yesterday I put on my astrakhan coat, strings of fresh-water pearls, Misaki pearls, opals, rune amulets from the Lofoten islands, and hamsa bracelets from Israel. I was properly armed and ready to visit the annual wellness/body and soul fair in Copenhagen hosted over the weekend. The minute I stepped inside the big forum, I could see that

RAINBOW SWORD

Part of my academic research is dedicated to looking at Tarot as a cultural text. What does this mean? This means that I look at how the visual language of Tarot intersects with cultural precepts about a given phenomenon, a type, an archetype, a relation (of class, gender, race, sex), reality, magic, and the physical

Renewed mantics

Runic stones in Scandinavia are very well documented. However, there’s often very little information offered by historians in addition to what the stones themselves tell. This is perhaps better than we might expect. The fact that all these stones have an enunciative and performative function, which enables us to get the message, renders any additional

Tarot flow

In a recent exchange with Mary K. Greer on one of her posts, Tarot Flow, on her blog, I made a few comments on how, by reading 3 consecutive cards in a literal way, we may enhance what Mary calls a better Tarot flow, namely the ability to interpret cards if we remind ourselves to consider