There’s a strong case for using the 40 pips only for proper prediction and judgement in Tarot. Divination must be as simple as possible, in all its forms. When you get proper experience under your belt as a horarist, you learn that the questions can be answered using almost always two or three significators only.…
A querent asked me to perform a spread regarding her love situation, specifically in relation to her husband, whom she is now certain has a mistress. The first card answers the question: what is his position towards his wife? We have the 8 of Cups. The element is Water, it is emotion, but the 8…
Here’s another three-card draw to gauge how my week will unfurl. The first card signifies the beginning of this seven-day period, and we have a beginning-hued card too. This is the Two of Pentacles, which points to the realm of matter, material and body. It is the first movement within matter itself, hence why it…
I am currently away from home, but I always carry a Tarot deck with me. A querent contacted me asking for a reading concerning a love affair that is causing her distress. She knows her husband is being unfaithful, but wants to keep the matter quiet for now. There is, however, a friend of hers…
Today I was watching a video recorded by the astrologer Robert Corre in 1979, from the period when he, like many other brilliant minds, was studying with Zoltan Mason in New York City. The lesson focuses on a weather a doctor would have the capacity to become an astrologer, to change career and relinquish her…
I decided to draw a Tarot card to exercise the art of analogy (from the Greek ἀναλογία, analogia, “proportion”, “correspondence of relations”) before leaving the house to drink a glass of wine in a bar nearby. The King of Wands appeared. Here we have the Fire of Fire in one of the sixteen archetypes symbolised…
It’s Monday, so I’ve decided to check the Tarot to see how my week will go. I drew three cards: one for the beginning, one for the middle and one for the end. That gives a nice trine of cards. The 7 of Pentacles came out as the beginning of the week. It is a…
Just today I was considering the possibility of opening up a thread on SkyScript to check something on my own natal chart. Then I looked at one of my Tarot decks and decided to do something I have been considering for some time. Splitting the deck in two: Minor Arcana to one side, Major to…
In Latin, spes is the noun “hope”. It names a state of orientation toward a future good. From this noun also comes the verb sperare. The verb means “to have hope”, “to trust”, and “to wait for with expectation”. The ideas of hoping and waiting belong to the same linguistic and conceptual field. One word…
Éliphas Lévi claimed that Arcane IX, The Hermit, symbolises initiation. There are solid grounds for this, and we can extend this reading to the Aristotelian concept of hylomorphism. To begin with, this card is associated with Mercury. Some say that, in the Rider-Waite, the monk is Hermes Trismegistus. Be that as it may, the presence…
