Are We Gods Or Men?

August 7, 2009
The Rage Of Achilles

I wanted to continue the theme of using the Iliad as a way to think about certain topics that are involved in a Tarot reading. The previous post looked at Homer’s Iliad, which describes a Universe of free-will, fate, prophecy and the gods. In this post I want to explore two characters that Homer describes [...]

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Who Are The Gods?

July 31, 2009
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The Olympian gods in Homer’s universe are a family like any other. It has Zeus, the all powerful father that cannot be defied, at least not outright, but he can be deceived; it has Hera, the jealous and watchful wife who is a master of the political game and is very familiar with intrigue; and [...]

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Homer’s Gods, Fate And The Tarot

July 28, 2009
Fate Or Free Will

I want to explore the epic poem, the Iliad, as a way to help me understand what a Tarot reading might be able to accomplish. Can a Tarot reading predict the will of the gods, human free-will and fate, or are our lives fixed? I’ve read Homer’s Iliad three or four times now. I like [...]

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Christopher Healey Interview With Jason

July 27, 2009
Lovecraft

At this point I asked Chris if he would like to answer some questions from Jason, a reader who had been enjoying the interview. Below are the results: 1. So how does Chris read his Lovecraftian cards and not come out of every reading with fear that the universe is decaying about him? Or how [...]

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Christopher Healey Lovecraft Interview

July 25, 2009
Lovecraft

Thanks for sharing your thoughts Chris. Check out what you said earlier, “It has always been an intuitive position for me that the very idea of Tarot is something along the lines of “a picture can speak 1000 words” and this remains my position today. To write a description of the meaning of an individual [...]

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Christopher Healey

July 24, 2009
Christopher Healey

I asked my good friend Chris, a massive Lovecraftian fan, if he would like to chat about all things Tarot. As the conversation developed I thought it would be a great idea to put his ideas on my blog. Thankfully he agreed, and this interview is really a way for me to get inside that [...]

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Do We Have Free Will?

July 21, 2009
Odysseus Defies The Sirens

An interest in Tarot cards or divination, will no doubt be at odds with a fundamental concept that we in the modern world hold central to our self-identity: free-will. What do I mean by this? I mean that free-will is something that is implicit in the very fabric of most societies. As an example, laws [...]

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Interview On Tarot And Philosophy Part 2

July 14, 2009
Tarot and Philosophy

This is the second part to the interview with my friend and philosopher Andrew Clark. Douglas: Andy you said in your introduction, “However, deconstruction is not a method in either the classical or the contemporary sense: i.e., of adhering to rules that lie outside of the phenomena that one is analysing”. Tarot readings involve a [...]

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