“All Eyes and No Sight”

Although I made my daily post for June 30 early this morning, I was sitting at my desk looking at a mug with amusing Shakespearean quotes on it given to me by my daughter-in-law when I spied the words "all eyes and no sight." This was excerpted from the line in the play Troilus and Cressida …

Where Is Brandon? – A Missing-Person Reading

UPDATE: The subject of this reading, Brandon Chicklis was recently found dead off the side of a road in Rindge, NH. His death has been ruled a homicide but no other information was provided. http://www.wmur.com/article/body-found-in-rindge-identified-as-missing-mass-man-death-ruled-homicide/22144351 This post begins with a lengthy preamble reflecting on the nature of my self-created missing-person spread and the decks I've …

So Easy a Caveman (or Any Man) Could Do It

Permit me a little latitude (at least in my terminology if not in my attitude, which is in the main sympathetic - and please forgive the unintended limerick) as I examine the demographics of the modern tarot community. Back in the early '70s social connectivity other than barroom malingering was virtually unheard of beyond one's …

Where Is Rachel? – A Missing-Person Reading

New Hampshire has a number of long-outstanding missing-person "cold cases." This one goes back to 1980. https://www.doj.nh.gov/criminal/cold-case/victim-list/rachael-garden.htm I subjected it to my "Train to Nowhere" missing-person spread, using the Tabula Mundi Colores Arcus deck with reversals. I chose the Princess of Disks as the Significator. https://www.dropbox.com/s/kz9ay5wf44526er/Train%20to%20Nowhere%20Spread.pdf?raw=1 All images © 2015 M.M. Meleen The Significator came …

The Thoth and the Liber T: A Deck Comparison

I've used the Thoth deck with the Liber T: Tarot of Stars Eternal in two-deck readings for some time, but it never occurred to me to size them up using my "Friend or Foe" deck comparison spread. The Liber T is an almost worshipful rendering of the Crowley/Harris Thoth - at least in the Major …

A Little Ingenuity

A while back I spent a few hours pasting together a Lenormand Grand Tableau layout sheet, and was keeping it in a cardboard portfolio under the bed. Last week-end I crumpled it slightly while pulling out my guitar case (to be honest, I forgot it was there since I've been working mostly with tarot lately). …

The “Be All You Can Be” Archetype Alignment Spread

There was an old recruitment slogan used by the U.S. Army for over 20 years that went "Be All You Can Be."  I poached this phrase to reflect aspiration to the universal human ideals captured in the first four numbered trump cards of the tarot as Fire (Emperor/Mars), Water (High Priestess/Moon), Air (Magician/Mercury) and Earth …

The Fool’s Debut Revisited

If you've been following this blog for a while, you will have noticed that I've been making increasingly broader use of the "quintessence" card, a numerical roll-up of the cards in a spread that, when numerologically reduced as necessary to yield a number below 22,  produces a trump card offering high-level insights on the situation …

Where Is Shannon? A Missing Person Reading

UPDATE: According to his family (in the linked news article update), Shannon White was "found" deceased. The fact that there is no mention of foul play or a fatal accident, which would be newsworthy, suggests it may have been a natural death or at most a suicide. The case is now in the hands of …

The Stairway from Heaven

Much has been said about the lack of a coherent traditional system for interpreting the minor - or "pip" - cards of historical tarot decks (which, after all, were never intended for divination). The scenic minor cards of the Waite-Smith deck are basically an imaginative  "work-around" designed to squeeze meaning out of these inscrutable icons …