These past weeks I have been slowly toiling away at creating another project, The Poetic Arcanum. It is a collection of 22 small and pithy poems pertaining to each of the Major Arcana of the Tarot de Marseille. Each of the poems aim at specifically answering the question, Who are you, with each of the … More The Poetic Arcanum
I received this deck around two months ago, and have read and studied the book carefully while using the deck exclusively on a daily basis. I like to involve myself with the decks I invest in, and I like to keep my collection small. I found this deck after listening to an interview by one … More LXXXI The Magician’s Deck: A Review
Using spreads as a cartographic map, I am exploring of late how the eye wanders around a given shape. This idea was first introduced to me by Camelia Elias, through her teachings in Radiant Reading and also here. It is something most of us card readers already do, except this particular approach is an openly … More Spreads as cartography
We arrive at this juncture in the middle, the 5 of coins. A solitary coin encased within flowering leaves and two open buds above and below. The heart, the center, the core. There is an emphasis here in the center, the excluded, as the four coins around it are balanced and stable. A seed perhaps, … More Cards: 5 of Coins
I read yes/no questions, because it’s interesting to see how they play out in real life. The way I see it, nothing is fixed and as we move about our lives we are constantly making decisions and changing the realms of possibilities for ourselves. Outside of dual paradigms, change is inescapable. Hence, reading the cards … More The Yes and the No
I rarely, if ever, get entangled in sharing my thoughts about the goings-on of the world around us, especially the political-cultural upheavals, swells, and movements. This is not out of lack of caring or disinterest, it is instead out of my feeling of impotency. Because of this, I frequently find myself thinking about the concept … More A question of agency
With the beginning of May we arrive at the house, the table, the 4 walls of the 4 of coins. I associate the fours in general with all things square, stable and sturdy. In this case, it being the 4 of coins, the suit of money, means, and ends, I think about banks, business ventures … More Cards: 4 of Coins
Recently, I briefly shared that I had created a spread for Ostara. In retrospect I should have given more detail about the spread itself. This is me rectifying that. Believe it or not, I created this spread with a pack of Aleister Crowley’s Thoth deck, a spanish edition of the deck I had lying around … More A spread for a spread
I hope the readers that stumbled upon my previous post about the 3 of coins and spring found it delightful and useful, here it is if you would like to read it. Right here and right now, I want to share a few things that are developing. I started this site as a way for … More Winding down the road in the eternal quest
A small well kept garden with little baby buds flowering, peaking out of the earth, ready to greet the sun. Stretching their leaves gracefully and slowly as the sun begins to nurture their skin, and the rains feed them, spurring their growth. It is a slow process that of resurrection. This is what I see … More Ostara with the 3 of coins
