Today we’re continuing my project of exploring the Tarot de Marseille on its own terms, setting aside preconceptions about what the cards mean and trying to let the deck itself tell me its significance. If you’re new to this series of posts, check out my introduction, my posts on the methods behind my numerology and […]
Read more "A Year of Tarot de Marseille: The Twos"I was doing some meditative work recently with the suit of Cups. Longtime readers of this blog will know that I am not, by nature, a Cupsy person, and this has always been the suit I’ve struggled most to connect to. So I did some intensive reflection and writing exercises to try and establish a […]
Read more "Mirror Images: Cups and Swords"The illustrious Benebell Wen recently published a video with her thoughts about soulmates and true love. It’s a fun topic, and one I had previously promised to delve into, so I figured I’d throw out some ideas on the subject. I’ll be frank. I’m a hopeless fricking romantic. It’s really, really bad. For all that […]
Read more "True Love, the Lovers, and the Two of Cups: A Response to Benebell Wen"The idea of using Tarot in magic(k) is not exactly new. The Aeclectic Tarot Forum has a whole constellation of discussions on this topic, and Kelly-Ann Maddox at the Four Queens did a video on it not too long ago. Here, I want to take a bit of a different tack and talk about how […]
Read more "Tarot and Timing Spellwork"This is Part 3 of what is intended to be a three-part post on my personal take on Tarot. And this is the big one. The whopper. The doozie. The great, big, messy, complicated, never-in-my-life-could-explain-it version of what I do in a Tarot reading. Fasten your seatbelt, gentle reader, because I fear it’s going to […]
Read more "How I Use Tarot, Part 3: Form Without Content"
Jack Chanek 