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Pamela Colman Smith Polish Relief Poster1 comment

mkg wrote 3 days ago: A reproduction of a poster by Pamela Colman Smith is available at ebaystores: POLISH RELIEF FUND POS … more →

Tags: RWS Tarot

LATS Prediction Experiment1 comment

mkg wrote 1 week ago: In my talk at the Los Angeles Tarot Symposium (LATS) this past weekend, I asked participants to draw … more →

Tags: Tarot Events

Grail Myths in the Minor Arcana: Cups1 comment

mkg wrote 2 weeks ago: A. E. Waite published his book The Hidden Church of the Holy Graal the same year, 1909, that the Tar … more →

Tags: Book/Story/Poetry Reports, RWS Tarot, Tarot Card Meanings

Inna Semetsky on Knowing Thyself1 comment

mkg wrote 1 month ago: Scholarly-oriented readers will appreciate a paper on Tarot by Inna Semetsky called “Simplifyi … more →

Tags: Book/Story/Poetry Reports, Tarot & Psychology

Holy Order of MANS Tarot8 comments

mkg wrote 2 months ago: When I lived in San Francisco I was privileged to meet several members of what was then known as the … more →

Tags: Book/Story/Poetry Reports, Tarot Deck Reports

Polisena in the Sola Busca Tarot6 comments

mkg wrote 3 months ago: Here I go - off again into strange byways of Tarot lore: The late 15th century Sola Busca Tarot is m … more →

Tags: Tarot Deck Reports

De Gébelin's Tarot Essay in Le Monde Primitif4 comments

mkg wrote 3 months ago: I’m back from New York and will be starting up the Tarot posts again soon. In the meantime, h … more →

Forecasting: The Prediction Business

mkg wrote 4 months ago: Are we tarot readers in the business of predicting the future? Some readers claim they are. They exp … more →

Modern? Renaissance?2 comments

mkg wrote 4 months ago: A couple of people have asked me how I defined “modern” in my post on the 1969 Tarot Ren … more →

Lost History - Tarot Cards2 comments

mkg wrote 4 months ago: Like getting your history from a visual medium? Here’s one of the best brief video overviews o … more →

Tags: Video & Audio Tarot

1969 - The Tarot Renaissance6 comments

mkg wrote 4 months ago: When did the modern tarot renaissance actually begin? It’s always hard to pinpoint the beginni … more →

Tags: Book/Story/Poetry Reports, Tarot Deck Reports, Tarot

Arcana in the Adytum

mkg wrote 4 months ago: Many of you will be familiar with the tarot teachings of Paul Foster Case and the Builders of the Ad … more →

Tags: Tarot, Golden Dawn, BOTA, Arcana, Blavatsky, Ark of The Covenant

The RWS Deck - where was it between 1939-1971?3 comments

mkg wrote 6 months ago: First, I need to be forthcoming and let you know that despite my 1,000+ collection of tarot decks, t … more →

Tags: RWS Tarot, Fortune-Telling, fraud, Games, Helen Duncan, Mediums, Spiritualism, Tarot, waite-smith

The Oldest Spread, by le Comte de M***5 comments

mkg wrote 6 months ago: Is there any “true” way to lay the cards? Probably not. But here is the first tarot spre … more →

Tags: Tarot spreads, Tarot Readings, Tarot, Divination

Origins of Playing Card Divination

mkg wrote 6 months ago: While there are a scattering of references to cards and “lots” or fortune-telling from t … more →

Tags: Book/Story/Poetry Reports, Playing Card Divination, Cartomancy, Casanova, Divination, Etteilla, Fortune-Telling, Gypsy, Lenormand

Carl Jung and Tarot9 comments

mkg wrote 6 months ago: Although many tarot practitioners apply a Jungian psychological approach to their tarot work, there … more →

Tags: Tarot & Psychology, Archetypes, carl jung, cloud of cognition, Devil, Synchronicity, Tarot, von Franz

Psychic, Intuitive or Therapeutic Tarot?17 comments

mkg wrote 7 months ago: Do a Google search on the words ‘psychic + tarot’ and you’ll come up with 370,000 entr … more →

Tags: Tarot & Psychology, Counseling, Intuition, Projection, Psychic, psychic tarot, Tarot, Tarot research, Therapy

Madame Lenormand, the most famous card reader of all time 8 comments

mkg wrote 8 months ago: Most of us have heard of Madame Lenormand, famous for having read cards to make predictions for Napo … more →

Tags: Playing Card Divination, Divination, Empress Josephine, Fortune-Telling, Madame Lenormand, napoleon, Tarot

Golden Dawn Correspondences for Astrology and Tarot

mkg wrote 8 months ago: Someone asked about the varieties of astrological correspondences among the Tarot Major Arcana card … more →

Tags: Golden Dawn Tarot, Astrology, Golden Dawn, Tarot


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