My pages are finally back in reasonable shape after hitting a bit of a snag yesterday. For some reason, Mozilla turned on the inline CSS option all by its self, and my pages started going all weird. I guess that’s what I get for using a beta program. 🙂 After a lot of work, and snapping at my very patient boyfriend, everything is just as good as new, if not better. I puzzled out a little more HTML yesterday, which improved the overall layout of the pages I have created so far. Hopefully today I can get my transparent graphics to save properly and fix the scroll problem with this page.

My Tarot notes are coming along aswell. On the 17th I started studying one card a day, making notes on the symbolism and meanings, as well as my own feelings about the cards. You can see the results of this in the Major Arcana section of my Tarot notes. I was influenced by Thirteen’s Tarot Basics and Ms. Greer’s Tarot for Yourself. I hope I’ve added enough of my own thoughts and observations that it doesn’t look like I’m just rewording the work of these two wonderful writers.

Earlier this week I received another new Tarot deck. I traded my Spiral Tarot for the Hanson-Roberts Tarot. I had never really bonded with the Spiral Tarot. It’s beautiful, but I didn’t like the American Civil War look that the Minor Arcana has. The Hanson-Roberts deck is almost perfect. And I’m nearly certain it is the same deck that a lady I babysat for had. It was a long time ago though, so I don’t clearly remember it. It doesn’t really matter though, because I love this deck. The pictures are sweet, but they still seem capable of getting across a harsh message. I’m beginning to think that my Robin Wood and my Hanson-Robert decks will both have different uses. I’m not sure what they will be yet though. For now I am enjoying studying the two decks, along with my tiny Universal Waite. I hope the notes I am producing will be of use to someone.

Work has already slowed on the website. I’ve been spending a lot of my time studying the basics of Tarot again. It’s been quite a few years since I did that. I actually began reading Tarot cards back in middle school. I was probably about 13 years old, maybe a little younger. I’ve always been a rather serious girl, so it really wasn’t something out of character for me. Once, in high school, I got rid of all my notes. It was a simple case of peer pressure. When my boyfriend broke up with me, he said one of the reasons was my Tarot reading. Of course, I wanted to be liked, so I got rid of nearly everything. Thankfully I kept my books and deck, and my interest in Tarot. Oddly enough, a year or so later for an art project, this boy used images from one of my Tarot cards. *sigh* Teenagers are such strange, inconsistent creatures.

I’m currently reading a book called Tarot for Yourself by Mary K. Greer. It’s really very good, and presents things in a slightly different manner then typical Tarot books. She uses a lot of visualization exercises, and focuses on making Tarot useful for the reader them self. I hope I can capture some of her ideas in my notes, without copying of course.

I’m also really enjoying my new Tarot deck, the Robin Wood Tarot. Ms. Wood’s artwork is beautiful. I feel that she has really captured the ideas of the cards. In most cases, the meanings are clear. Some people call it the “Barbie and Ken” deck because they claim most of the people in it are blond. I think that’s far from the truth. In an interview, Ms. Wood even details the number of different hair colours, and provides an explanation as to why each figure has their colour of hair. It’s an interesting read, and helped give me more ideas about the cards.