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Wednesday, December 21, 2005

The Tarot Art And Magic, a new exhibit in Siena Italy's Magazzini del Sale, looks at the history, symbolism and mythology of tarot cards from the 15th century to the 20th century and includes engravings by well-known artists such as Albrecht Durer, Hendrick Goltzius and Bernard Picart. Read more ...

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Apparently you don't need even need tarot cards as a normal deck of playing cards - your basic Ace, King, Queen, Jack and pips - can also equally well reveal what lies ahead ... except of course Jake, the source of this approach, foolishly thought he was actually making things up when he did a reading. Learn more ...

Monday, December 12, 2005

Tarot card readers wanted. Yes, yes, yes ... as well as waiters, clerks, bellhops, bartenders and taxi drivers. Where? Well New Orleans of course. Read more ...

Thursday, December 08, 2005

Tarot reading laws are moving in different directions in Ankara, Turkey where a Turkish prosecutor has used an 80-year-old law to prosecute 14 popular cafes which offer free fortune-telling and in Oak Creek, Colorado where the Town Board has decided that the code prohibiting fortune telling and clairvoyance are unnecessary. Read more on Turkey ... Read more on Oak Creek ...

Wednesday, December 07, 2005

The Student Pagan Association at Portland State University in Oregon recently offered a "Paganism 101" workshop. Read more ...
Cancelled tarot card reading, numerology, meditation and candle magic classes have become a religious discrimination issue for the Delaware Human Relations Commission to consider. Read more ...

Monday, November 21, 2005

Visit a Festival of Light where tarot reading as "inexpensive psychiatry", as well as tarot card readings for animals, can be found ... readings for animals apparently help the area Humane Society to find where the animals came from or what health issues they might have. Maybe this is a direction you need to consider in readings you may do. Read more ...

Saturday, November 19, 2005

Yikes .... Tarot, Harry Potter, Jonathan Livingston Seagull ... all bad for you ... especially Harry Potter? In fact a Dr. Stanislaw Krajski, a lecturer of history of philosophy at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, says "It is not unlikely that those who are bewitched by the books will join a satanic sect, develop a mental disease or even become possessed." And Father Benedict XVI while Cardinal Ratzinger wrote that "The Harry Potter series deceitfully deludes the young generation, distorting still immature Christianity in their hearts." Hmmmm ... sounds serious? Read more ...

Thursday, November 17, 2005

Tea and Tarot? Food and fortune? Entertainment or counsel? A good session in a cafĂ© with a tarot-card reader could actually be one of life’s great midday pleasures and apparently is still available in several places in Vancouver. Sounds fun, yes? Add it to your list of things to do when next you are in BC. Sure why not ... I know I plan to. Read more ...

Sunday, November 13, 2005

Kimberlee Auerbach, who has been reading Tarot cards for 10 years after she first bought a "Healing Earth" deck, does a one-woman show called Tarot Reading: Love, Sex and Mommy that she is adapting for a book. She believes Tarot isn't about looking into the future but about looking into yourself ... that we project our meaning onto everything, whether it's Astrology or Tarot or whatever ... that in Tarot you're going to try to figure out how a card's meaning and position relates to your life, and by trying to figure out how that relates to your life, you might see your life in a different way. Read more ...

Monday, November 07, 2005

Monkey, who really seems to get around, has his tarot cards read while visiting New Orleans. Learn more ...

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

A way for helping people sort out their problems and find the correct paths to follow in the many decisions they must make ... including things like finding a lawyer, a doctor, a lover or just a friend... a tool called tarot ... 76 cards representing vices, virtues and elemental forces ... a tool that comes in many different themes, designs and colors to meet a variety of study and aesthetic needs. Read more ...

Monday, October 31, 2005

The Good Witch of Marin earns her living reading Tarot cards, cleansing auras, and creating potions and casting spells for everything from the creation of wealth to settling the score with a former lover. Read more ...
What does it mean to be a witch? And how does one become a witch? Celebrations, spells, palmistry, astrology, tarot, numerology, cooking, gardening, and more. Read interview ...

Friday, October 28, 2005

Orlando Sentinel's Jerry Greene gets a little help from the cards to make his NFL predictions this week. It will be interesting to see just how well he does. Read more ...

Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Robert Petrungaro is a specialist in tarot reading, astrology, and numerology who assists individuals and companies. He helps them make more informed decisions by guiding them through information he obtains through their readings to empower them to make clearer choices. Read more ...

Sunday, October 23, 2005

A son of a preacher man goes undercover in San Francisco to what he considers the "other" side where he faces his demons and learns about tarot and fortune-telling. Read more ...

Friday, October 21, 2005

"Card Shark" by Gigi Miner, creator of the "Ethyrial Tarot", ordained minister in the Universal Life Church, author of the monthly column titled "Moment by Moment" for the e-zine, "The Meta Arts" is about a young widow who is a professional tarot card reader and who encounters a psychopath who uses tarot cards to find his victims. Read more ... and buy the book ...

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

The hard luck story of tarot reader and fortune teller, Ken Halhober, now at Howard's Flea Market in Homosassa, Florida, during his escape from the Big Easy is something you need to read ...

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Formal guidance on paganism in prison that was recently issued in Britain allows inmates to have Tarot cards but they are forbidden from using them to tell the fortunes of other prisoners. Read more ...

Saturday, October 15, 2005

To increase your understanding of Tarot you might want to look into and purchase some of the many, many Tarot reference books that are available for serious seekers. Abebooks, the world's largest online marketplace for books, a community of over 13,000 independent booksellers selling 70 million books, is an excellent place to start. See the almost 20,000 books available though Abebooks with "Tarot" in the title sorted highest price first here ...

Friday, October 14, 2005

Forestdale Cemetery in Malden, Massachusetts ... is a public park as well as a place to honor the dead. Neoclassical composer, Tarot reader, and member of a troupe of traveling psychics known as "Psychic View Points Entertainment", Tim Thompson sometimes goes there because it is such a peaceful and inspiring place ... a place he can get messages from "the other side" and talk to the animals. Read more ...

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

An artist and painter of "soul portraits" in South Africa ... is in court as a result of charges that she used portraits she had done to produce a deck of Tarot cards. Susan Emily Pitt, an internationally recognised artist, author of Aspects of Self - the Game of Life and metaphysician, paints the archetypal energies surrounding you and offers some explanation as to their meaning and value in your life. Her web site at http://www.soulportraits.com seems to be offline but her work can still be seen here. Read more ...

Monday, October 10, 2005

Psychic faire coming to Kauai ... as if you needed an additional reason to visit the garden island of Hawaii ... be there in Lihu'e this Saturday Oct. 15, and Sunday Oct. 17, at the Aloha Center, formerly the Hale Kauai store, at the corner of Nawiliwili and Wilcox roads. Read more ...

Saturday, October 08, 2005

June Kaminski, BellaOnline's Tarot Editor, offers her insight ... with "Tuning into Feminine Energy through the Tarot" where she begins by saying "Tarot focuses on several individual archetypes and concepts, pointing to insights related to many aspects of human concern." Read more ...

Friday, October 07, 2005

"One of the best talents a thinker must possess is the ability to see interconnections from various disciplines ... in fact, an exceptional thinker is able to discern similarities from disparate fields. And since mystics and mystical philosophers are unanimous in asserting that Ultimate Reality is one seamless whole, then its various aspects should indeed present astounding similarities. The most intelligent quantum physicists also support a holographic view of reality even going so far as to posit a fractalized nature to the universe in all its aspects." Read more ...

Thursday, October 06, 2005

"The Tarot is a deck of cards that can be used as a tool for developing intuition, and it is also more. The cards in a Tarot deck contain symbolic images that express a mystical philosophy, a philosophy that stems from the mentors of Western culture, Pythagoras and Plato, and that has been cherished by mystics and sages over the centuries." Read more about Tarot in "The Tarot, Divination, and Spirituality - Seeking The Higher Self Through Ancient Symbolism" now ...