Category: Tarot
From self help to divination and back
From a casual observation I noticed that the astrological services that are offered online are predominantly, whether it’s Vedic or western, in the field of astrology that can be characterized as “self help” – the kind that deals only with issues relating to personal development, empowerment, self-reflection and accessing subconscious knowledge, resolving emotional issues in… Read more
Intuition vs. analysis
There’s something to be said about the process of divination itself. Divination can be done also using astrology, as well as other different means, but here my latest experience is with tarot specifically. In astrology the main focus has been for me throughout the years to analyze the past events, personal and collective, as well… Read more
Ram or Goat?
Going back to the tarot theme, there’s an issue that has been bothering me a little lately and this is the inclusion of astrology bits in the tarot cards. Some decks lack it completely, while others adding astrological symbolism, to a varying degree of elaboration. On the face of it, it’s a welcome feature that… Read more
A glorified Rorschach test?
Continuing with the tarot theme, there’s another interesting issue that devides somewhat the tarot readers community – it’s the divinatory approach vs what can be called the secular approach. It really has to do with one’s own beliefs – whether the tarot are a tool or a gateway to some higher, supernatural or mystical knowledge,… Read more
To reverse or not to reverse
Even though this site is astrology centered, I can’t help myself but to write also about tarot a little. From my intense preoccupation with it in the last 3 weeks or so, an issue has come up – something that preoccupies every tarot reader, beginner and even experienced, and that’s the subject of reversals. Tarot… Read more
The joys of tarot
I missed last week’s post to this blog because of an exciting reason – I rediscovered the tarot, after quite a while. I couldn’t put them down last week and since, something I didn’t experience for a long time, actually not ever. Some years ago I bought the Mythic Tarot, of which Liz Green is… Read more