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Tag: rider-waite
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Exploring the Mind/Body Connection in Tarot
My husband got sick five days ago. It didn’t worry me–I don’t automatically get sick just because he does, and I felt absolutely fine. A few evenings later, however, my nose began to run. About a half-second later, I felt my body slacken and weaken. Goddammit, I thought. I don’t have time to be sick…
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A Tarot Spread for Healing Psychic Wounds
What does it mean to heal? Physically speaking, healing infers closure, a resealing of skin and a resetting of bone and relief from the pain of injury. But what if healing is not so simple, not so straightforward? For some, pain is chronic, persisting long after a wound has healed; physical therapy, medication, and dietary changes are undertaken in…
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The Beautiful Dynamism of the Two-Card Spread
Anyone who travels in the circles of my twitter sphere knows that I’m a fan of the two card spread. The simplicity of the one-card is almost too simple–done as a daily draw, it tends to reinforce traditional interpretations which, if you’re starting out and still getting the hang of meanings, is great. If you’ve…
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The Fool, the Devil, and the Power to Transmute our Demons
When I begin a project, I approach it with the energy of the Fool–I’m excited and starry-eyed, idealistic about the journey and almost radically hopeful for what it will bring. There comes a time, however (usually after a few bumps in the road and facing the enormity of what I’m up against), that I’m forced to…
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Taming the Analytical Beast: How to Surrender to the Power of the Unknown
Before I started on this beautiful, magickal, mysterious path of paganism, my patron goddess was Logic. I came from a tradition of critical theory, which idolizes the strength of the argument rather than the inherent truth and wisdom expressed in its conclusion. Allow me to stress that there is absolutely nothing wrong with this. In…
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The Court Cards: Exploring Meaning Through Process
Ah, the court cards. Any nascent cardslinger will tell you that these are the ever elusive figures of the tarot, and for good reason. Excluding the knights, these figures are fairly stationary, so it’s challenging to discern how they function in the realm of the tarot. The view that the pages, knights, queens, and kings…