Major Arcana Planetary Triplicities

The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn introduced what I consider the most extensive and elegant set of correspondences among the tarot and other magical systems. Here is a permutation I hadn’t seen before. It’s from The Magical Writings of Ithell Colquhoun edited by Steve Nichols. Colquhoun was an artist, magician and the biographer of…...

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Mary K. Greer

Mary K. Greer is the author of 12 books on tarot and magic and teaches a Jungian-based interactive method of reading the cards. Discovering tarot in 1967, she has been teaching it since 1974 in colleges, privately, and in conferences and workshop venues around the world. Her 1984 book Tarot for Your Self revolutionized the practice of tarot, being the first book to describe reading for oneself as a self-help and personal creativity tool. She also also writes biographies of magical women, including co-authoring the book, Pamela Colman Smith: The Untold Story. You can find her at marykgreer.com and on Facebook.