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Tarot Keywords: Cataloguing the Commonplace
AUTHOR’S NOTE: I’ve been learning that many Medieval writers padded their work in a variety of ways to increase its length. One of their favorite ploys was digression, by virtue of which they never had to get to the conclusion in a timely manner. But the one that caught my eye was cataloguing or assembling…...
“Ships That Pass”: A Relationship-Potential Spread
“Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow AUTHOR’S NOTE: Relationship spreads are a favorite topic of mine, and I’m especially keen on exploring the likelihood of two people connecting for the first time. Here is…...
Logic Me This, Cardman!
“Riddle me this, riddle me that” said the Riddler to the Dark Knight. AUTHOR’S NOTE: An online acquaintance recently described the tarot as a logic-based system, adding “. . . if you want to develop intuition, block off the right nostril with beeswax for twelve years and maybe carry a cobra on your head.” I’m…...
Mercury Retrograde: A Brief Case Study
AUTHOR’S NOTE: As a natal and predictive astrologer with 50+ years of experience I’ve always accepted the premise that, unless they evoke a response by contacting factors in the birth chart of the entity involved (most acutely by conjunction, square or opposition), transiting influences of any kind have little impact on individual lives and even…...
2024 Presidential Election Recap: The Power of Horary
I decided to revisit my October 9th “Astro-Tarotscope” reading in response to the projected outcome of the 2024 Presidential election. I’ve shared the reading below for those interested, but my closing comment in the original analysis is worth highlighting: “While I admit to not being much of a Trump lover, either as a person or…...
Personalizing the Court Cards: So Many Different People To Be
“And when I look in my window/So many different people to be” – Donovan Leitch, from Season of the Witch AUTHOR’S NOTE: Correct interpretation of the court cards is a recurring topic of debate in the online tarot community and a thorn in the side of novice readers, who don’t know whether to approach them…...
A Horary and Tarot Case Closure: What Happened to Devon
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Roughly a year ago I was approached by a person with an interest in the case of Devon Marsman, who at that time had been missing from Halifax, Nova Scotia for more than two years. He was last seen entering a relative’s house in Halifax at night, apparently for a party that the…...
Sympathetic Magic: The Secular Side of Spellworking
AUTHOR’S NOTE: It’s fascinating how dreams can unearth old memories that are still germane to present conditions, figuratively “turning over rocks to see what crawls out from underneath.” Last night in one such nocturnal interlude I was discussing with an unknown savant the assumption that object-oriented magic is best performed with “power items” that hold…...
Incentivizing the Shadow: A “Numerical Synthesis” Pros-and-Cons Spread with Resolution
AUTHOR’S NOTE: A while back I came to the realization that the so-called “quintessence” calculation is anything but when applied to a group of input cards that doesn’t consist of the traditional four-card “cross.” (Quintessence in tarot terms simply means “fifth expression,” not “without equal”). I came up with alternative nomenclature for the numerical synthesis…...
Convergence Between Tarot, Lenormand and Horary Astrology
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Whenever I’m confronting a major decision or a significant occurrence in my life or the lives of my clients, I find it useful to perform both a tarot (or Lenormand) reading and a horary astrology event chart. I’m looking for convergence in their testimony, particularly in the status and placement of critical features,…...
