I’m very surprised with the way my Tarot collection has changed over the past couple of years. Back when I first started reading Tarot, nearly fourteen years ago, I had only one deck. I bought another deck, but quickly sold it off to a used bookstore. After using my single deck for about two years, […]

I’ve recently started to re-read Lon Milo Duquette The Chicken Qabalah. It is an excellent introduction to all the things a dilettante needs to know about the mystical Qabalah, and it has really got me thinking. I’m starting to wonder how the path that a cards sits on on the Tree of Life affects its […]

Lately I have been reading A History of the Occult Tarot 1870 – 1970 by R. Decker and M. Dummett. It is an excellent book that is, unfortunately, more of a survey of magical orders then a history of the Tarot. I am stilling finding it to be a worthwhile read, though. And I highly […]

I’ve talked quanta into buying me yet another Tarot deck, the Pagan Tarot by Gina M. Pace. Honestly, I think the search for the perfect deck is never ending. Each time I get a deck that I expect to be “The One” I always find something wrong with it. So, I’ve stopped searching for “The […]

I found out yesterday that my Dad often stops by and reads my blog. (Hi Dad!) This won’t change the way I write or what I write about, but it might give me pause for a minute or two once in a while. Anyway, on to other things. I am trying really hard to read […]

My Tarot studies are in a bit of a slump right now. I think it is partly due to some of those shoulds that I wrote about yesterday. I feel that I should use Tarot for something more then “simple fortunetelling”, like say for meditation or self-discovery or something. And I feel that I should […]

Today I made a deal to trade away the last of my Tarot decks that I don’t get along with–The Osho Zen Tarot. I really wanted to like this deck. I bought it after reading a great deal about it on Aeclectic Tarot Forum. Many of the members there seemed to really love this deck, […]

I finished reading A Wicked Pack of Cards: The Origins of the Occult Tarot last night. It is an interesting book about the development of Tarot from a trump-taking card game (which is actually very fun) to an occult tool. I was a little confused about the authors’ opinion on Tarot though. Which I suppose […]

Yesterday I mentioned that I am part of a few groups that I really enjoy. One of them is the Stat-Tarot group at Yahoo. It’s purpose is to have many people do a one card reading for a specific issue and then do an analysis of those readings to see if there is any correlation. […]

Off and on, I’ve had an interest in various types of personality tests. I know my Myers-Briggs type and my enneagram type, ISFJ and 1 wing 9 respectively. I’ve also explored by Western and Eastern Zodiac signs in an attempt to learn more about myself. Sometimes I discover truths that I knew about all the […]