tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-211168742011-12-03T13:19:56.193-08:00Tarotica from the Prophet jk.jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07415144798224976827noreply@blogger.comBlogger711100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21116874.post-87009258810969196732011-02-28T07:20:00.000-08:002011-03-06T03:58:34.636-08:00

When you get a Tarot reading, it is much more helpful to your reader, if your attention can befocused upon the green ribbon of change, ratherthan the golden coins leaving your pocket tooccupy theirs. How often we employ readers, that is how often those who still hope a person tossing cards can tell them something true will employ them, hoping for a different outcome. But the truth is, the

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Of course, as noted in the posting, it is not exactly the Star being talked about by Crowley, but that is another layer to the story. Anyway, enjoy this commentary by somebody who seems to know something.

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Somebody asked me how, as an atheist and skeptic, I could possibly bother reading Tarot cards. My response: Because in this life, we need dragons. Do not ask me what that means? If you have to...you know. But, the human need to wrap a cordon of mystery and possibility around the (silly) concrete ball of certainty is both established, and of obvious advantage to creatures so imperiled by their

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"Predictive" reading is not dictation from the Cosmos, nor is it unavoidable fate. It has no compelling or inductive power. It has no power at all---unless or until the cards are interpreted according to some scheme or narrative, which creates in the mind of the querent a new realm of possibility.But if a prediction is made in accord with the placement of certain cards, what this certainly does

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Turns out Dr. Jung agreed with Bill Haley's notion of the rock-and-role of women: "Get into that kitchen, and rattle those pots and pans!"It is a peculiar thing, how many women in the newage, and in the Tarot portion of it, have adopted Carl Jung as the standard-bearer for feminist spirituality and empowerment. Many people talk about Jung, as they do one his best-known followers, Joseph Campbell,

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But you wouldn't be able to tell that from the videos just put on Youtube, that give the impression that Campbell was an accomplished scholar of Tarot, almost as good as Robert Langdon probably.The funny thing about Campbell, who along with Mighty-Archetypal Carl Jung, are the two main intellectual inspirations for the modern, i.e post-modern, Tarot, is that he proudly admitted that he knew

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My pomo addition to kinder, gentler Death cards. The beautiful butterfly spreads its wings, and nothing bad will ever happen to it, or to you. Uh-huh.This is precisely what it is like as the Universe forecloses on the loan of its particles to us. It isn’t however such a personal, even pragmatic working as all that, since there is just the effect of the gigantic moving and changing cosmos,

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Originally posted at the Rhapsodies of the Bizarre fan page on Facebook.Explaining the cards, or doing tricks, back in the 18th-century salon.Tarot, and the ancient Egyptian ideas it allegedly preserved, only survived because people couldn't see beneath the surface of the playing cards and the games being played, to grasp what they were actually looking at, the Book of Thoth.It required the

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Tarot classes at tarotica.comThree classes in the essential principles of TAROT-card reading, addressing and answering such questions as:1. What does Tarot reading mean?2. What gets read exactly? Cards or people?3. Is Tarot card reading fortunetelling? Or psycho-therapy?4. What are the basic assumptions of card reading?

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Cutting the cards for the big reveal, way back in the early 18th-century (or maybe 17th-century) day. As always, mainly women were attracted to this use of playing cards, men worshipped Fortune at the gambling tables.I have for many years now been seeking out and reporting about early uses of playing cards and Tarot cards for magical and divinatory purposes. There has generally been the view that

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A new article has been posted at tarotica.com.What is Tarot Art?A few months ago, Robert M. Place and Ciro Marchetti guested on Tarot Connection, and talked about what they viewed as the good and the bad and the ugly of Tarot art. Particularly, they were dismissive of occult views on the subject, and argued for a freer hand in interpreting things, while at the same time of course discussing the

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First, a Tarotcentric definition:sherlock, verb—to cold read or deductively assess a person’s nature or condition, or that of a situation, as Sherlock Holmes would often do, thus giving the impression some unusual or psychic power of perception is at work. He quickly sherlocked the woman, and told her some amazingly true things about herself.noun—a person who employs these methods. That sherlock

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Yeah, right. You think you're going to get my answers to that in a blog posting?Well, maybe I'll talk about it anyway, and maybe that will clarify some things for some of you.I have been answering that question, and in lots of ways too, for a long time.What strikes me as a funny thing is that, back in the day, when I could not read as well as now, I had a lot more rules, and felt like I had to

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The victims' families wanted "closure", the dime-store-psychology removal of an obligation to feel bad about something you'll still feel bad about after watching the state murder somebody for your mental health.The state wanted "justice", which is to show how when something really bad happens to you, it's OK to kill somebody to get even for it.John Allen Muhammad, the star of the Death show last

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International symbol of the Waite-HatersH8•W8’ers include:1. Cartofeminists—Greerist oinkers who want to cut off your tail with a carving knife.2. Pro-Pamists—people who love Pixie Smith, whoever she was, and just want her to get the credit she is due, for stealing all that Sola-Busca artwork. Meanwhile, more jobs for China!.3. Crowleyites—because Aleister repeatedly told them Waite sucked.4.

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After all, who needs a fortuneteller, or even one of those fancy "intuitive" readers, when your employer or government snoop can just read your handy-dandy brain scan, showing not only what you think, but picture-images of everything you see, including images from your dreams!Don't worry, you'll get used to it. In fact, you'll grow to love it (him).Sound like Minority Report scif-fi?Nope, it's

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There are a lot of basic occult-Tarot ideas that get glossed over or ignored in pop-Tarot books, or in online discussions, because these are allegedly motifs of Tarot’s dark side, and so, according to the self-appointed “light-side” advocates, they are best left veiled. One of these little-discussed concepts is that Tarot is a weapon, or a set of weapons. Why should anyone wish to advocate such a

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While I don't regularly read Mary Greer's Tarot blog, lately the Tarot spirits have once again been bringing her comments to my attention. This time I found a Tarot mention in some blog called "Feministe", written by a creature called "Aunt B", and B was blaming her own absurd notions on America's most popular cartofeminist, Mary K. Greer.So, Greer wrote a piece on July 19 of this year on the

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On the left, Tarot Therapy, otherwise known as Tarotmania, on the right the infamous Tarotmania Map, showing the Tarot world, c. 2004.Someone asked me a question on the Facebook Tarotica group: “What is the definition of a Tarotmaniac?”It should of course be easy to answer a question like that. It is, actually. But consider that a definition is something like a biography, and the more we edit for

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Seldom do these stories of Tarotica, of Tarot cartoculture, have happy beginnings or endings, and I have to say even the middle journeys are often wretched things, revealing only pain and miasma.But, fortunately, you're just looking for a few cheap laughs, right, so here is the story of how a silly Tarot "psychic" went onto The View to read cards, and ended up being scolded by Mary K. Greer, for

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If Sarah Palin were into Tarot, you betcha she'd be an "intuitive" reader.Mary K. Greer explaining what "intuitive reading" is really all about: "...a wild and crazy fairy tale about the card [with] present-tense-you-statements about the querent." Mary notes "it often works quite well". That's from her book "21 Ways To Read A Tarot Card"---or jerk yourself off, whatever.What else works well is

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Let us start with a quotation, from an old movie called El Topo (The Mole).“The mole is an animal that digs tunnels under the ground, searching for the sun. Sometimes his journey brings him to the surface. When he sees the sun, he is blinded.”Of course, he isn't "blinded". He was always blind. And he seems disinclined to grow eyes just because he seeks the sun.Another line from this movie: "Too

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Showtime's useful show on Death and Life focused on dysfunctional but stylish Grim ReapersGreetings, we have not spoken here for a bit, but I think you will enjoy, in a manner appropriate to twisting hanged men, today's story of the most well-paved road of good intentions and misapplied editorial sensibility (no, not respecting this blog, inane rodents).As I suspect, long before you reach

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Yep, the newest edition of Tarot News has just been published. Check out the stories on the death (and life) of Hajo Banzhaf, and also the usual mix of Tarot articles, including an update on the silver-lining boom for psychics in the depression, and also how one faux-psychic drew the Slammer card.As you know, this blog has been slow lately. I will be coming back for more regular updates, but busy

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A funny thing happened along the way to my finishing my series of postings on Tarot reading. First off, I had to make tarotica.com, which has kept me pretty busy. But in addition, Mary Greer seems to have begun replying to my earlier postings—in a way. The least I can do is to return the favor, especially since she has decided to embark on a public campaign to promote a most questionable

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"On December 10, 2008, my old website jktarot.com was taken offline. The reason? Well, chiefly, I have been wanting to move everything to tarotica.com, and so I finally did. While I realize it would have been wiser, in the traditional sense of wisdom, to have kept the old site up while I was developing this one, I decided to forgo worrying about wisdom, and just go with the new thing."The new

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Part II, the Psychic Psywindle“The folly of the psychic reads in the folly of the querent.”—A. E. WaiteLet us start with a simple question. Perhaps you will want to pull out your decks and read along to answer it. How did an otherwise obscure actress (Youree Dell Harris) rise to enormous infamy portraying a Jamaican Tarot reader named Miss Cleo? Why, amongst all the other peddlers of Tarotic

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Part I—Readers and ReceiversFor a long time now, I have been reviewing how I felt and particularly thought about reading Tarot cards. In one, large sense, I have concluded that most of what passes in the world for reading Tarot cards, or doing divination, or using or working Tarot cards, is baseless nonsense. Yes, I know, that's pretty harsh and judgmental and so by the way is the conclusion that

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Right here.(jk)

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A tale of Oppression, coming to an Aeon near you.(jk)

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A useful thread at Tarotica group on Facebook, entitled "What is Coming".An idea: "There will be people coming to you, very frightened people, and you will not wish to frighten them even more, and you will wish to make them feel better."At the same time: "But if you read cards for enough people, how is it you will only ever read happy endings?"One poster retorts that the "placebo effect" could

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Adjustment! Rhythm writhes through every act.Wild is the dance; its balance is exact.In simple terms, the world goes out looking for an opposite, but to find it the world has to craft the thing to be opposed, and in so doing makes a duality, a light and a shadow side of something(s). And so it is now, when you may think the random, rough-and-tumble world of finance and economic complexity has

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A number of people have asked about this article, which has not been available online for some time now. I am again offering it as a pdf download at Lulu.com.The article offers a very basic introduction to semiotics and then explains how occult ideas about meaning resonate with semiotic ones, and how Tarot is indeed a language of signs and symbols. The evolution of the suit of Wands is examined

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Blank-eyed Motley trudges along at Allach concentration camp in Trump I of the Kobe TarotThere is a Tarot, done just one year after the writing of Crowley's Book of Thoth, which you should know but you do not.It is one of the most powerful Tarots you shall ever see. (Although do note the point below about the necessity of possessing power-recptors in your eyes.)It makes claims of the aesthetic

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I saw this Facebook group, a promotion for the admin's site. The title of the group, as well as the promise made at the site is to provide customers, via the channeled readings of Angela Bear (AKA Angela Gower-Johnson), with "Comfort Clarity and Confirmation".I reacted with natural disgust at those words, and decided to look further into the group and site.On the group's home page we are told the

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And Some Notes On CriticismPreface—Gilbert (Wilde) prophesying the social dynamic of Tarotforum.net:“The security of society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members. The great majority of people, being fully aware of this, rank themselves naturally on the side of that

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Or presumes anyway.Well, given the varied reactions she has published, in various places for various audiences, I am still not sure what Emily Carding thinks of my review of her deck, the Transparent Tarot.She has alternately described my review, or me, in the following terms: witty, venomous, amusing, pre-menstrual (she said that would apply if I were a woman), deranged, furious (the latter two

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Review: The Transparent Tarot, deck by Emily CardingOn a recent airing of the Fox series, Kitchen Nightmares, a program in which Gordon Ramsay attempts to salvage failing restaurants, it turned out one of the chief problems at a place called Sebastian's in Burbank was the owner's obsession with his extremely complex menu, a mix-and-match mess he felt offered the customers the benefit of large

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"Our ignorance of the laws of variation is profound. Not in one case out of a hundred can we pretend to assign any reason why this or that part has varied. But whenever we have the means of instituting a comparison, the same laws appear to have acted in producing the lesser differences between varieties of the same species, and the greater differences between species of the same genus."—Charles

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"Manipura is an entirely selfish center, where one says: “I have such and such an emotion. I hate and I love and I am angry”; where one is torn to bits, where one is oneself a flaming, explosive furnace."—C.G. JungA number of years ago I wrote what I think was my definitive piece on how I viewed intuition, at least as it is practiced in Tarotmania. I have not written on the topic here however,

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I received an invitation to a Facebook group today, 10,000,000 Pagans strong, a group which defines itself mainly in view of what it hates—Christians. From its description (BOLD type is used):"NOW... PLEASE UNDERSTAND: WE ARE A GROUP OF PAGANS, AND WE HAVE TAKEN STEPS TO KEEP ALL CHRISTIANS FROM SPREADING THEIR VIEWPOINTS TO OUR MEMBERS. ANY CHRISTIAN TOPICS ARE DELETED UPON REVIEW. HERE'S OUR

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I’ve been thinking a lot about how love and hate are just two sides of the same coin. Not a new insight of course, but I think the notion is pretty fundamental, that it drives the universe in fact.Love=attractionHate=repulsionLove=gravityHate=anti-gravitySo Love is that impulse or power that draws things together. We feel strongly about its effect because we’ve been engineered by evolution to do

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At the Thoth Blog.(jk)

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She talks about cheese—yummy!(jk)

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Starting the exploration of Crowley's Qabalah.(jk)

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Recently, on Aecletic Tarot Forum (ATF), where of course I am banned, a virtual rebellion took place on one Thoth thread where my arguments were at least given a hearing, and forced Mary Greer into making the public admission that her teacher, Angeles Arrien, had written "nonsense" and "factual errors" in her best-selling anti-Thoth book, The Tarot Handbook.Many years ago of course, Greer's first

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I have an update on my Thoth book.And, I have migrated some activity, including a new version of Tarotica forum, to Facebook.(jk)

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Once again, Tarot card readers, or a couple of people pretending to be that, have gotten busted for a fraud rap, this time for promising to lift people's curses through "therapy". The fix ended up costing the cursed quite a bit of money, and finally somebody complained and now the Tarot readers are in the DuPage Country Illinois jail, probably not trying all that hard to raise the 1.5 million

jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07415144798224976827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21116874.post-53315166152075500572008-02-28T16:36:00.001-08:002008-03-04T14:35:00.073-08:00

Yes, you can now shop at the Tarotica BoutiqueWhere you can find things like—oh—a Bael T-Shirt, and while Bael may not be able to bail you out of trouble exactly, he is supposed to be able to make thee go invisible, so maybe you won’t get into trouble in the first place. Have fun.Bael T-shirt in lovely red, which is a good color for Bael, given that he is an Arien lord.The Bael Symbol:

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Recently, the creature that occupies the White House, George Bush, never having anything to offer the United States but more blood and slogans, came up with another of the latter to replace yet another mantra that hadn't properly defined the ever-collapsing reality of his criminal war. The new slogan is "Return On Success" (see how many lies you can spot in that piece of shameless propaganda),

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In part one his new BBC4 series, The Enemies of Reason, dour Richard Dawkins (author of The God Delusion), asks what is the difference between occult-based symbolic correspondences—especially when applied to the typing of personalities such as we see in astrology—and racial or ethnic stereotypes.  Richard Dawkins says correspondence-based human typing and prediction are "facile 

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The New York Times reports today on a compromise solution that has been reached in Rome concerning the conflict between preserving an ancient icon and allowing a new tradition to cover it up. I thought several aspects of this story were resonant of certain conflicts which take place in Tarot today.At the ancient Milvian Bridge, the place where Constantine defeated Maxentius, which helped open the

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After receiving a wealth of positive and affirming comments concerning my last blog entry, I have decided to respond in kind, and today I proudly announce the creation of the newest thing in pomotarot multiculturalism—The Obese Tarot!The Fat Fool Card, the only card necessary in The Obese TarotThere's only one card in The Obese Tarot, but it is printed with gobs of rich, thick, sticky ink on

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If we don't monitor our information diets carefully, our cerebral lives quickly become bloated. Attention gets diverted; conversations and trains-of-thought interrupted; skepticism short-circuited; stillness and silence all but eliminated.—David ShenkProof, or at least some interesting data suggesting, that some "norms" are pathological, has been reported recently. Note also this prophecy. Now,

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Added at the Tarot Deck Buyer's Guide.This goes a little beyond my usual capsule review to give some further insight about what is essentially wrong, but trying hard sometimes to be right, about pomo Tarots.

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Bloody Bad Money—Good for using in anyinvestment of one's time seeking the lightin the Stygian diversity of tarotforum.netA Failure of Insight"[Failure] was in the 'insight' position of a spread i did, and i don't like to think that all that will come of this situation is failure."—Aeclectic Tarot Forum Citizen complaining about the defects of Crowley's Thoth Tarot.Now, some of you may know that

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Someone recently asked (in a Yahoo group), "Why is Dark synomous with Evil?"And I replied:Because humans don't see very well in the dark.And, because lots of animals that are very dangerous to humans see very well in the dark.We evolved in a world that wasn't so safe and nurturing in the daytime, so when the lights went out people naturally huddled close together, generally mindful if not scared

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CIA Fact: About 55 million people die every year all over the world. Did you get that? 55 million! Yet, you mourn a few here and there, people whose death-forms rate mentions on the news, and formulaic grief in the pews, or maybe even a personal sense of loss if you held the corpse's life dear for some reason. Respecting that, how foolish is it to imagine that one drop of selfish water, compared

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If one word can describe, or maybe even solve, your problem, why do you need ten, or fifty?For that matter, if one card can describe your problem, who's to say that one card cannot inspire fifty or more relevant words from a person who can read cards?A fellow says to me the other day: jk, I got your Life Reading and was surprised to find out it is just one card. It's $30 after all, shouldn't I

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Skeptical Summary of Crowley's Tarot Theory.(jk)

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This one should be particularly interesting to those who are into the debates (intrigues, inanity) of Thoth revisioning.Also, these are some thoughts which have come to me in the course of working on the book. I do not know if they rate the light of web, but how little would be on the web if it rated it, right? And they may as well live here.Recalling:"Meddle not in the affairs of wizards, for

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Tarot News returns with a new look and many new stories.Also, the jktarot.com homepage has a new look, and a new, more inviting message, which no doubt newbies especially will find an improvement over that scary old "What is Tarot Not" stuff.(jk)Read Rhapsodies of the Bizarre************************************

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On December 1, 2007, I will publish a reader's guide to Aleister Crowley's The Book of Thoth. As I write the book, I will blog here—THOTH BLOG—about ideas I am developing.(jk)************************************Read jk's Tarot FAQRead Rhapsodies of the Bizarre

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For those of you who have more than a passing interest in Tarot history, you should find this thread enlightening.And particularly this posting.New information is provided which tends to cinch (or maybe cincture) the Gertrude Moakley identification of the Visconti-Sforza Popess as the Visconti cousin, and popess-heretic, Maifreda da Pirovano. Robert V. O'Neill had questioned this theory, and this

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Rhapsodies of the Bizarre is now available in a print edition,(jk)************************************Tarotica Discussion Groupjktarot.com Site Map************************************

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I have noted in the past the regrettable results of what happens when one Googles Tarot. Not entirely Google's fault of course. By the way, one star of my Google exposé, Thomas Scoville wrote to express his deep appreciation for my helpful comments: "Seriously, it's people like you who ruin the creative fun on the web."And just last week I posted a concise history of the Cartofeminist conspiracy,

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Life of Brian writes: "J. Karlin shares his view on what he believes to be the co-opting of Tarot by radical feminism in Cartofeminism."Well, I can see how words like "Cartofeminism" might lead people to think I am attacking something like "radical" feminism. But, my critique, or review of the facts, is rather aimed at the mundane hucksterism of a group of mainly women, whose dishonesty mocks

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Modern Tarot is mainly the result of a nefarious Tarot Conspiracy. (jk)

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Wickedeast—feeble evil. Talks darkly, but is fatally clumsy. Would have made a good circus clown under gentler stars. Likely to be caught in utterly self-deprecating contretemps, like being crushed under stay falling houses.Wickedwest—febrile evil. Hot, earnest hatred inspires this genuine article. Magnificent spellery, at least from a theatrical point of view. Has a most unfortunate achilles

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Welcome to February. This month many things will develop. The long hibernation will end, and you will see new Taroticals. Some will take that as a threat of course, but that is their problem. By the way, speaking of living a good life, as a person, as a nation, I think it is reasonable to say that you should be troubled with respect to how you are getting on in the world if your government

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For many years now, there has been a culture war in Tarot that somewhat reflects the greater culture war in the macrocosm, or The World. At the heart and mind of this war is a dispute over truth, the nature of it, and the possibility of it. Most people who come to Tarot as some kind of remedy are not interested in being told there are sharp edges of fact and truth to know and to respect. That

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