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Tarot is a Technology
Like all technologies, tarot is a marriage of tools and techniques. Like all technologies, humans use tarot to improve and enhance their lives. Like all technologies, tarot helps us solve a problem we were unable to resolve using only our bodies.
Houses & Husbands: Working with Saint Joseph
Saint Joseph is generally associated with homeowners, but I doubt he’ll leave us landless millennials to suffer without his care. Here’s how I modified traditional Saint Joseph work to help me as a renter.
The Chariot/ The Cadillac
The Chariot is closer to the leap of fate indicated by The Wheel of Fortune than the Magician. It will eventually encounter, after some transformations, the question of The Hermit: what is all this desiring and working and hoarding and showing off for? Does it improve the spirit, or is it a distraction from deeper work?
The Aphrodites, The Lovers & The Devil
This, of course, is Common Aphrodite, or Aphrodite Pandemos. There’s a split among the ancients about the two Aphrodites: one, the Aphrodite who tortured the future mother of her grandchild and the other who embodied the most high minded love, Aphrodite Ourania or Heavenly Aphrodite
3 Elements of Dream Interpretation
The insights I’ve gained by interpreting my dreams, and moreover, by consigning myself to a particular system within dream interpretation have been unparalleled–even by tarot and playing cards.
A Love Letter to Mugwort
Its Latin name, Artemisia vulgaris, references Artemis, a Greek goddess of the moon, hunting, fertility, chastity, and being a huge lesbian. (Happy Pride Everybody!)
Resources: Understanding Playing Card Cartomancy
A great deal of what’s available to teach playing card cartomancy is not great. It’s overly ominous, and presumes that everything must be intense and spooky.
Understanding Cartomancy’s Clubs & Spades
These experiences are part of life; none of us are exempt. Understanding the purpose of Spades experiences make a more well rounded person, who is better able to accept life on its own terms.
Understanding Cartomancy’s Hearts & Diamonds
It’s easy to reduce either Diamonds down to money, when it’s really about value—in intrinsic ways, like personal values, and also concrete monetary value.
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Through free thought, by which I mean attention to detail, inquiry, and understanding, we can see that the work of tarot’s Swords isn’t good or bad.
Through free thought, we can see the role systems play in our limited ability to see the truth and accept reality. Our unwillingness or inability to think and scheme freely limits our capacity for action.
It all but ensures that we will act without thinking, and reap the consequences about which the Swords warn.