Over the years, people have mistakenly thought I was a witch. You see, there are similarities to the practices of the witch and my personal work. But I have always known I am not a witch. Yet untangling practice, craft, and beliefs is not easy when the lineages of two very separate systems have been merged over time. Which is why I felt it so important to write Tarot Priestess and lay out the path of the Priestess. You see, a priestess can be mistaken for a witch and a witch can be mistaken for a priestess. To the uninitiated, they can appear very similar. But they are not the same and their paths, though at times parallel, are very different. I have always been and will always be a ...
There are far more tarot spreads than we have room to discuss here. In fact, there are entire books devoted just to tarot spreads. There's a spread for every occasion and for every possible question. However, if you're trying to perform a reading and you haven't yet found a spread you like for your question, the best thing to do is to design your own. There's no official listing of approved tarot spreads and no reason that you have to use a layout made up by someone else. Remember, a spread is just a layout of cards designed to give you more specific information about a particular question. No one knows better than you what information you need to answer your question, so no one is better ...
A wise high school teacher told us the secret to learning French was to think in French. That advice was a game-changer for me. Within time, I was speaking and even dreaming in French with an ease and flow. Every language shapes reality. Tarot is no exception. As a language, it reflects being human in a full spectrum from the mundane to the divine. To stay curious and open to a world of elements, great natural forces and our vast potential is to own the language of a true Magician. Following are 7 tips in creating Tarot as a second language. Think in Tarot.Tarot is a language of images. Learn the rhythms and power of non-verbal communication. Engage with the ways images speak daily. ...
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was a late Victorian secret society that focused on ceremonial magic, the evocation of god-forms, and divination. Central to the Golden Dawn's esoteric project was the attempt to create a unified system of magic, a way to bring together the various strands of Western occultism that existed in the late nineteenth century. They synthesized Solomonic, Enochian, Theosophic, Rosicrucian, and various other forms of magic, bringing them all together into one unified system. The keystone of Golden Dawn magic, the thing holding their whole system together, was occult Qabalah. Qabalah pervaded everything the Golden Dawn did, including the use of Tarot for ...