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If There Is One Technique you Must Learn — This is it!

May 8, 2010
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I know you were just thinking to yourselves: man, I hope Doug posts some super nerdy, completely obscure and geeky approach to reading Tarot, the kind that if you start talking about it at parties means you’re walking home alone that night. Don’t worry, I got your back. For the last six months or so, [...]

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A Quick Tip on using The Major Arcana

April 4, 2010
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This is just a quick tip to use whenever your Tarot spread has some of the Major Arcana in it. Ideally, this tip works best with small spreads (10 cards or less) and although it still works with bigger spreads, it’s not as effective. The real challenge with doing anyone a Tarot reading is to [...]

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The Chariot Card! A Triumphant Victory or a Personification of the Church?

March 25, 2010
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In Conjurer or Adept? The Humble Origins of the Tarot Magician, I outlined a plan to look at the 22 Trump cards from an historical perspective. I don’t plan on getting too involved in the history side of things because my main goal is to find new and interesting ways to think of the Major [...]

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Conjurer or Adept? The Humble Origins of the Tarot Magician

March 23, 2010
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Historically, the Tarot started life as a game. I find this fascinating because isn’t life itself just a game? Like life, a game is a mixture of stratagem, skill and chance. We can plan for all eventualities but the element of luck is ever present. Chance has a funny way of overthrowing the “best laid [...]

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Tarot Lexicon

May 29, 2009
Tarot Lexicon

I thought it would be a great idea to create a Tarot Keyword Library. This would be a place where people could add their own thoughts, impressions and ideas on what each of the 78 cards mean; an exchange centre, a rotating lexicon of keywords. I’ll start by adding a brief outline of how I [...]

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Tarot Picture Cards

May 29, 2009
The Fool

The Trump or Picture cards number 22 in total. Try to avoid privileging these cards over the Pip or Court cards. In the game of life, their importance fluctuates. The Fool New beginnings, potential, opportunities and so on. Due to the very nature of this cards energy, it’s best to pair it with some other [...]

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Tarot Card Confusion

May 26, 2009
Question over Tarot card meanings

These last few days have seen me searching the Internet for other like minded Tarot blogs and websites. In the short time that I’ve spent on these sites I noticed that the most common mistakes centre on five cards; the Fool and the Magician; the Hierophant; The Emperor and the Hermit. Either the writers don’t [...]

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