Every single beginning Tarot book advises to pick a card a day and work with it as a way to become familiar with the cards without having to spend hours memorizing. I do it, most of the readers I know do it, and it’s certainly helpful, both for learning the cards and for navigating through […]
In a fit of schedule serendipity, Thalassa, founder of the Daughters of Divination and Producer of the San Francisco Bay Area Tarot Symposium (“SF BATS”) and I managed to have the same hour free on the same day, and met for coffee and quick preview of this fall’s SF BATS on October 6. As usual, […]
We bravely traversed the wilds of Contra Costa County to set up the Tarot-To-Go booth at the Pittsburg Scottish Renaissance Festival last weekend (August 11 – 12). I’d worked the faire as a performer with my acting group many times, and my main memory of it was that it was *hot*. Really, really hot. When […]
I’ve been working with the Da Vinci Tarot (book by Mark McElroy, art by Iassen Ghiuselev and Atanas A. Atanassov, published by Lo Scarabeo) since it became available in 2005. Leonardo Da Vinci‘s work has always inspired others to create and to build upon his drawings and research, and this deck and book set is […]
Another interesting video – this one is a background piece from Madonna’s Reinvention Tour. (Note: you may want to take some Dramamine first.) I’m sorry today’s piece is so short – we spent the weekend reading Tarot at the Pittsburg Scottish Renaissance Festival, which was great fun – and a great deal of work! Having […]
It’s not *exactly* Tarot, but this video from Richard Kadrey is still very cool. And it looks like it was shot at Crocker Galleria in downtown San Francisco, which only increases the cool quotient.
The Wheel of Change Tarot by Alessandra Genetti is amazing. Breathtaking. Astonishing. No, really. It is. It’s an RWS-based deck, with Alessandra’s gorgeous artwork and creative interpretations of the cards, the deck is visually and emotionally compelling. Everyone I’ve ever read for with this deck has fallen in love with it at first sight, […]
