Thank you for your thoughts Judy. The reason I find this just so striking, is that I have an old set of Cups and Balls for that game and know the history of it. When you read the history, until 18th Century France street Magicians were thought of as really disreputable and scum of the Earth because ...

The differences in the partial deck created by Catelin Geofroy in 1557 is classed as the oldest deck in the Marseilles order. He was a card maker in Lyon. The Magician, as shown here has a really intriguing addition which I feel adds a real bite to the card, Le Bateleur's left hand as it holds the c...

Hi Bluestar, We can read tarot imagery in many things around us, in art, actions of others etc. You are right it is very freeing. Imagery is imagery and can be visual, sound, emotions etc so if those cards make sense to you and they give you good readings, then that is wonderful! Established cards a...

Both Jean-Claude Flornoy and Mary Greer wrote about this reading. Cara Can you provide titles of the books wherein Jean-Claude Flornoy and Mary Greer address these reading techniques, that you described? It would be extremely helpful. Mary Greer mentions it on her blog: https://marykgreer.com/2008/...

Reading the pips is a very modern notion in the French tradition. approximately how modern? not trying to bait anybody, I'm really very curious as to when this apparent "trend" began to become mainstream. reading with pips is now in every contemporary book on reading the TdM that I have c...

Loving this thread Diana. I used to use the Waite-Smith style variant deck, but changed to the TDM a few years ago fully. I started seeing the cards as a whole picture like you describe and I find it preferable now after 27 years of Waite-Smith. I know a prominent Parisian reader and a number of Ita...

Hi Folks, When the Covid-19 Pandemic is over and people are trying to get back to work or back into regular life, it is my intention to share a little joy by printing the face of The Sun Tarot card on card and printing a number of them. On the back I am going to hand write a message like "You a...

Hi Everyone If anyone wants to link with me on Facebook my page is www.facebook.com/secrettarotgarden/ I am happy to like each others pages to help all on the ratings/findability (spot the one not used to web tech phrases). It's my aim to make my website very interactive to replace this in time. I h...

Charlie Brown wrote: ↑06 Apr 2020, 22:09 Thank you so much. I just downloaded it and am looking forward to learning more.

Thank you Charlie Brown, I hope it proves useful to you.

Thank you for your kind comment Joan Marie. Hope you like it. This system has become quite useful to me, especially with the Zairja reading.

Hi everyone, Due to our current Pandemic situation I wanted to give a free offering to the Cult of Tarot community, that offering being my Five Coin reading system. It is free to download now but it will revert back to costing £10 after this coming full moon. I use it often with my Zairja Tarot Read...

Thank you Diana for your lovely comment, really glad you like it.

Hi Everyone Over the last year I have been decorating the sunken garden on my property as an outdoor Tarot, Fortune Telling, Ritual and Broadcast recording space. My museum of artefacts is nearly complete and I've now finished painting and varnishing my Inn style swing sign. The whole space I will s...

Thank you for this article Joan. I had not thought of the word consider like this before.

Hi, I wanted to give this info in case it is of interest to people. A few newspaper groups print my weekly sun sign horoscopes in their newspapers. Recently I was asked to produce articles on astrological subjects for the papers as an interesting and uplifting diversion from the awfulness of Covid-1...

Everyone is keeping healthy at this time I dearly hope. I love researching for colourful, interesting history that is occult or involves fortune telling. One such tale involved the Victorian era Irish Horror Writer Sheridan le Fanu, The tale I trialled on stage using the Cartomancy reading which is ...

Just seen this, that is awful. Had experience on this.Not sure how much action any authority will take. One of my books was pirated and approached Paypal a they were the payment method of seller and made representation that the seller was selling pirated work. Apparently it was only my view that my ...

As has been said all ready by Bluestar, Joan Marie, great topic. I have noted from readings especially when I am doing them on stage, it is not so much the question but how the question is understood by the Questioner. Does the person asking the question actually understand what they have asked and ...

That is so lovely of you to say Joan Marie.

Glad you enjoyed it. I appreciate your feedback.

I have a new blog on my website and it is something I am quite passionate about. Helping clients step into their power. From personal experience I know what it is like if you hide your truth, and be what everyone else expects. Eventually it explodes and there is wreckage. That is what my concept of ...

I was only 15 and on holiday in 1985 and was new to Tarot and Fortune Telling which has since become my passion and work. After waiting for a very run down "grungy" shop to open I bought the only Tarot they had, "Tarot of the Witches" as in the Bond movie "Live and Let Die&q...

Thank you for the replies folks, glad you like the article. I have been working and conducting a reading based on the Virtues which I will put on the website soon. It has taken a little time to get a framework that really works well and be easily explainable. Sorry I have been newish to Wordpress so...

Finally I have been able to start changing a dilapidated out-building and dog run and turn it into the "Secret Tarot Garden". This is a reading room filled with cabinets for my "Occult Museum" and exterior garden reading space with hanging lights, lanterns and plants. This last w...

Hello dear friends, Neil Lovell the designer of the Malpertius Fortune Telling Decks past away in September 2018. A good friend is using part of his website to sell the remainder of the Marpertius decks. I have the Malpertius Lenormand and I love it. The quality and designs really stand out. I give ...

Very glad I stumbled across this thread Joan Marie. I will have a good look through these sellers

Many thanks

Cara



Cara Hamilton
www.secret-tarot-garden.com