This morning I dreamt that I was at a Thai restaurant with my family. While the waiter was taking orders, I turned around and noticed the party behind me. Each person at the table had a poster-sized tarot card attached to his or her shirt. The deck and the cards were unfamiliar but clearly tarot.... Continue Reading →

The internet is full of advice in the form of bulleted lists. A Google search for “five ways to” yielded these results: avoid a Black Friday trampling improve your memory keep laptop thieves from jacking your data For this exercise, you might randomly draw and/or consciously select three to five tarot cards to help you... Continue Reading →

I had such a wonderful time at the Bay Area Tarot Symposium on Saturday, and I'm kicking myself for not having taken photos to post here. If you haven't been, imagine walking into a huge room filled with tarot enthusiasts and vendors selling baubles and all kinds of tarot goodies. You pick a random tarot... Continue Reading →

To all of you bloggers and web hosts out there, be sure not to let your domain name expire unless you are really really sure you're ready to give it up. In June, I let go of tarot-table-talk.com. I had signed off in November and let the domain expire. Yesterday I tried to get it... Continue Reading →

The Bay Area Tarot Symposium is less than a month away—Saturday October 4, 2008! Evelyn Pine and I will be doing a Writing with the Tarot workshop. We'd love for you to come write poetry with us! There are going to be, as always, a lot of fabulous workshops and presentations. I've got the inside... Continue Reading →

The Rider-Waite tarot is not the oldest deck—we have to go back to the 1400's for that—but it is recognized as one of the most popular decks of all time and has influenced many tarot artists since its first publication in 1909. The deck was conceived of by Arthur Waite, a member of the occult... Continue Reading →