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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tea and Tarot? Food and fortune? Entertainment or counsel? A good session in a café 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 ...

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 ...