Hey! I hope you’re doing well. They are always bad, really bad, as if I were to stay single and sad forever. I mean, it’s all Five of Cups, Five of Wands, Three of Swords, Ten of Swords, Strength, Five of Pentacles, Eight of Cups, Eight of Swords... Have you ever had that type of gloomy answers? So...

What a perfect thing to return to after an extended family emergency taking me away from this place I love. <3

-goes to those links now-

So Etteila read fortunes with a 32-33 card piquet deck (he added one named after himself to a conventional picquet deck) which was basically a card game deck. Tarot was also just a card game deck too BUT that was about to change. He is considered the founder of cartomancy with Madame Leomand right o...

I too, don't use LWBs at all, and they just sit in the Tarot box all the time. The information in LWB are very brief and simple, so it is hardly worth read, my feeling was. But then the 2 decks I have, which are the Egyptian Grand Etteilla Tarots and Egyptian Gypsy Tarot, they are totally different...

Hand's down, The Chicken Qabalah of Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford by Lon Milo Duquette is my favorite book on Hermetic Qabalah. I re-read it within the past six months and found it even more useful than when I read it the first time shortly after it came out. I keep meaning to pick up and read Son of the...

I asked the spirits to give me the answers to a bunch of questions by giving me a combination of cards that I could use some kind of complex cipher on. The cards I got were 9 of wands, knight of wands, rev. Magician, rev. Seven of pentacles, and Rev. Ace of swords. I would greatly appreciate it of ...

Best rant ever! I am not even going to try and express what I think of Jungian archetypes outside of tropes within literature. But that is what they are, literary tropes, "stock characters" in the stories we tell ourselves within, tell others without. They are NOT the be-all and end-all of...

Hi Newoldians! So Qabalistic tarot is a hobby/passion of mine but I don't actually use a lot of QBL in ~readings~ rather than in meditation, shadow work and magickal ritual. The Tree of Life (especially the diagram called The Gra Tree of Life or called The Natural Array by Aryeh Kaplan) is beloved t...

Oh wow. It has been 3 months! It caught up on me as well.

This sounds like the right time and place for me to get practical with the TdM after so much reading and contemplation. Me and my new CBD Tarot de Marseilles will be there.

Robert Wang wrote a book called the Qabalistic Tarot that goes through his Hermetic Tarot (based on Israel Regardi's Golden Dawn deck) as well as the RWS and Thoth decks and he mentions the BOTA deck too. BOTA and Wang's Golden Dawn decks are pip decks. Wang's writing style is a little stuffy and ve...

I think this is a great topic. I have a twitter friend, Katy Swallow (she has a website) who is both a medium and a cartomancer. I listen to her talk about her conversations with her ancestors and other spirits/ghosts with a strong sense that she is very sincere. It is clearly real for her and works...

This is waking up an old thread but I want to give a very good review for The Cartomancer and bring them to the attention of anyone looking for replica decks. I purchased the Oswald Wirth Tarot Majors, 1889 & 1926 last month (both editions) and they came quickly and of very good quality. There a...

Here is a spread diagram for analyzing your relationship with a soul mate.

I am not sure what will come of this, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask. I have almost zero knowledge when it comes to tarot readings,other than the subconscious mind and intent. I am in a,fairly unique situation. For the past 2 years I have been in a relationship with,what some might call my &...

My childhood friend stopped following me on Instagram out of nowhere. He is married but we never talked about us having romantic feelings. I asked him why and didn't explain, so I used my tarot cards and this is the spread. *****The devil, 2 of Swords, and Knight of Cups******* My interpretation is...

The book I've found so far is Cosmic Astrology: The Book Of Answers by Athena Keen This is no book for an experienced astrologer but for someone like me who knows most of the language but not how it all fits together? It isn't a bad introduction, it ties in with other interests of mine and the prese...

Hello, I've been doing tarot for about a couple of months and I think I'm getting the hang of it, but something I'm still having trouble with is connecting different cards together, so I was wondering if you guys recommend any books or websites that helped you with that? Even though I've been readi...

Finally a morning where I could just start the day off shuffling tarot cards for myself! My best readings for myself and others happen between 6 am - 10 am. Leo-Me 7-26-21.jpg 1. Card that best describes me currently:  The Sun There is no card in the tarot that is more "Leo" to me than the...

Hi everyone! I am looking for book recommendations for Psychological Astrology or Astropsychology, especially anything published in the last 10 years (so 2011 forward). A lot of the books on the topic that I own or read in the past came from the late 1970s-early 2000s and modern psychology has moved...

Beyond adorable!!!

This is my first experiment at a reading circle! Everyone is welcome. The idea I have is for people to post tarot readings or ~any~ kind of content they like that relates to the astrological sign of Leo that they would like to share starting today July 23rd 2020 and ending on August 22. If people li...

I was caught off-guard by just how much I'm both enjoying The Alphabet vs. The Goddess by Leonard Shlain and made really contemplative and thoughtful. The premise is that the invention of alphabets and the shift to literate civilizations has biological as well as social ramifications for the rise of...

I am loving this thread so far. The Star & Crown Oracle is one of the decks I'm planning on getting deeply involved with next year. I was thinking about that a couple days ago when re-organizing my tarot deck shelf and discovered I hadn't even opened mine yet. I felt such guilt at that moment, l...

I've bought three from Fool's Dog - the Gaian, So Below, and today treated myself to the Hidden Realm. I think I'll get the Robin Wood next. I hope these apps will be maintained going forward - I just love them. I'd been a bit iffy about the idea but wanted to enjoy the Gaian's wisdom without waiti...

While intended for marriage/dating relationships, you can use this to decide if its the right time to break off friendships or walk away from a relative or employer as well.