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Get. This. Book.
I’m about to advise you to get this book. , Untold Tarot: The Lost Art of Reading Ancient Tarots But the deck in the image above isn’t an ancient Tarot. It’s a Lasenic Tarot, first published “between...
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Finding a Lost Object with Lenormand
I misplaced a pocket knife the other day. It’s just a little toothpick-style Buck, it’s inexpensive, and I have others. But it’s the kind of thing I use for a lot of little jobs, and I miss it again...
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Le Tarot Astrologique
Imagine, if you will, a deck published by Grimaud sometime between the late 1800’s and 1917 or so, very roughly coinciding with the Belle Époque. Imagine the strange old art, the fantastic vibe. Now...
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I hate oracle decks (but not the Literary Witches)
It was the face on the box that caught my eye as I was browsing. I thought it was Charlotte Brontë. And there were wolves and hands and trailing vines…I had to find out what this was. As it turns out,...
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A 2020 election reading
This is a reading I did on facebook recently, on the fly. I will quote it here as is, neither adding to it nor editing: “September 16 at 1:42 AM It’s early yet, but I’ve done early pulls on elections...
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Killing the Glad Girl
There is a scene early in the film Red Dust where Clark Gable goes to toss a drunk worker at his rubber plantation into bed, and discovers that Jean Harlow has taken up residence there. She kicks the...
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Where to go?
OK, the picture doesn’t really express exactly what this is about. It’s Robert Johnson at the Crossroads, the place where all that stuff you labored at finally falls into place and you become badass....
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The Grand Jeu, An Introduction
Don’t look away… Years ago, when I started blogging here, some of my first posts were on the Grand Jeu. I shared what I knew and tried to figure out the rest. In time I moved on and wrote about other...
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Thomson Leng, where have you been all my life?
The question is rhetorical, of course. The Thomson Leng Tarot has been around since 1935. The art is very 1930’s. And while the RWS is theatrical (some of the scenes are actually taking place on a...
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Lenormand Has Served Me Well (& two new decks)
Hello all – I’m here to discuss cartomantic simplicity. It may be seeing a minor renaissance. Caitlin Matthews has a new book , Untold Tarot: The Lost Art of Reading Ancient Tarots, and Toni Puhle’s...
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