Q: Do you ever use the Major Arcana without the Minor Arcana or vice versa? The Hermit, Universal Tarot de Marseille, US Games, Inc. 9 Cups Universal Tarot de Marseille, US Games, Inc. Actually, except as part of Tarot learning groups I’ve participated in, no. I’ve thought about it for certain questions (like keeping to […]
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Favorite Tarot Spread: 30-Question Challenge Q11
Q: What spread do you use most often/prefer and why? I mostly use the three-card spread called “Within, Without, Advice,” which was introduced to me on Instagram by Patrick Fogarty and Kelly from The Truth in Story. I love it for inner life/outer life daily draws using my most introspective decks, like the Mary-el Tarot and […]
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, 9/16/12
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 […]
Playing Card Inserts etc., Lenormand
So, today a lovely lady named Brigitte Doerner, a puppeteer and artist (see her website here) asked over on the Facebook Lenormand study group page about the playing card inserts in the Lenormand cards and if/how they might be used for reading. As I’m working my way through AndyBC’s Lenormand course, we are getting into […]
