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Predicting The Future: Why A Tarot Reader Must Make A Decision!

November 6, 2009
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Painting by Edvard Munch: The Scream, 1893.
“The Instant of Decision is Madness” Kierkegaard
Have you ever noticed how difficult it can be to predict the future using Tarot cards?
I’m sure you all know the score: the reading is going well, you’ve identified key information from the client’s current and past circumstances, then…well, it’s decision time. What [...]

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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 are [...]

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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 dialogue [...]

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Interview On Tarot And Philosophy

July 13, 2009
Philosophy and Tarot

I asked my good friend and philosopher, Andrew Clark to engage with me in a discussion on some philosophical questions relating to the Tarot. The aim that both of us share in conducting this interview, is to highlight the relevance Philosophy has with Tarot, and mysticism in general. This interview will be conducted through email [...]

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An Introduction to History

May 31, 2009
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I’ve always liked History as a subject and I’ve found a renewed connection to the Tarot through the study of its past.
I thought it would be a good idea, before getting too involved in the details, to look at history itself; and explore the approaches I’ll be taking when gathering and presenting the information; and [...]

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Standing at the Crossroads

May 26, 2009
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Before the birth of this Tarot blog, I had a clear intention and a clear direction of what I was going to write. But now I find myself in a catch-22 as to where to take Tarot Eon. All the paths open to me are uncertainties, and this leaves me with a feeling of uneasiness.
Uneasiness [...]

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