Got involved in a discussion some time ago over on Facebook started by the wonderful Chloë McCracken, who does the blog for TABI, here, about illustrated vs. stripped-down minor arcana cards and the challenges of reading the more traditional pip cards without the scenic illustrations that were introduced by A. E. Waite and Pamela Colman Smith in their […]
Marseille
Find the Silver Lining—Stress Cards
Time to find the light in the shadow. You know those cards, the ones that make you cringe whenever you see them. Over on FB, Alison Cross (visit her court card blog, This Game of Thrones), challenged our group recently to identify the cards in our decks that create stress for us and come up […]
“I Am” Elementals by Suit
An interesting exercise was proposed last week by Alison Cross for our current Facebook study group. She asked us to pick two suits and their elements, and come up with “I am” statements for each card. At first, I thought, yeah, right. But this has turned out very interesting indeed. I decided to do all […]
Marseille Dictionary
And herewith, my dictionary for the Marseille deck. I’ll also post this under the Dictionaries section of the site for future reference. My sources for these keywords and phrases come from AndybC’s Tarot theory and the companion book to the Universal Tarot of Marseille by Lee Burstyn. Please keep in mind when perusing this list […]
Marseille Five-Card Draw–9/30/12
Drew these cards yesterday morning (Sept. 30) for this week. It’s going to be a week of making an important choice, which I do have in the back of my mind (a financial adjustment that involves some risk). So, this one makes sense already. We have Three of Cups-Two of Coins-Lovers-Temperance-Fool. The key card […]
Marseille Five-Card Draw–9/23/12
For our weekly draw from the Universal Tarot of Marseille, we’ve got The Moon-Seven of Coins-Seven of Staves-Ace of Staves-Knight of Swords. Like last week, the central focus is my own creative efforts/work activities, only this time we’re back at seven, which indicates a need to go deeper to make this effort work out well. […]
Marseille Five-Card Draw, 9/16/12
Week two of my exploration into the Universal Tarot of Marseille as brought up the following: Five of Cups, the Fool, Nine of Staves, Four of Coins and the Six of Cups. Very ornate, and the Fool looks like he could use a new pair of hose. 😉 If you remember from last week on […]
Digging into Tradition–Marseille Five-Card Draw
Working on expanding outside the narrative-picture box of the Rider-Waite-Smith and subsequent Tarot systems by going back to the traditional Marseille deck, in this case Universal Marseille. According to Lee Bursten in the accompanying book, the Major Arcana were part of a trump system to add to playing cards and used archetypal symbolism from the […]
