As the sun’s visible path thru the sky becomes lower and shorter, and a winter blues is whistled by the northern winds, it’s up to our inner Sun to step up. Perhaps friends sitting across the table, or across the oceans of time and space, reflect that inner Sun back to us. When, in the […]
Jonah and the Whale
The chapter of our book for which Natasha drew this is about the Temperance card, and when I asked for a keyword Elias unexpectedly suggested Deliverance. I had to look that up and think about it. In traditional order of the trumps Temperance card is number 14, following Death at 13. So in card games […]
Emergence Day
Yesterday was my birthday, a.k.a. emergence day, so I picked a cute “Chick” drawing Natasha did for our book. In the chapter in question we discuss the Hanged Man, the card with rich and controversial interpretations from Haman of Purim story (see Stav Appel’s site), to Judas, to Jesus himself. We know that this is […]
Reading Invisible Cards
“Tarot is a treacherous art!” thoughtfully said Jean-François years ago as Natasha and I served tea in our south Brooklyn apartment. The adage sounded especially ominous since I just became a born again Tarologist a few weeks prior. JF already read professionally. His readings were as direct and structured as they were artful and profound. […]
Four of Cups
To me one of the coolest cards in the Waite-Smith tradition is the 4 of Cups (4C). A guy is sitting under a tree, drinking wine and having a good time. Some take that card as stagnation, becoming complacent. It is possible the card can have these darker tones if the context of the reading and intuition support […]
A Note on Tarot
When I started to give Tarot decks as presents to friends, I’d send a brief note along the following lines. I see Tarot as a language of intuition. Our intuition is like thousands of Sherlock Holmeses at our disposal, but we need to ask a clear question and then hear the answer. Tarot helps to express the […]
