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…
Over the last two days, the cards that I drew as daily meditation were the 8 of Swords and the 4 of Swords. They are both cards of the rational and mental plane, the intermediate sphere of Yetzirah, and are also associated with Jupiter. This is relevant because. in any context, what does Jupiter enjoy?…
As I have said recently, I’ve been interested in the war-related individuals, and the symbols operating behind them. This Tarot reading is about Richard E. Winters, commander of Easy Company in World War II, and has a very clear objective. To understand who he was in the real context of war, as a man commanding…
After doing a reading for William Stoner, I decided to do another one for another stoic figure in American literature: Don Gately from Infinite Jest. Now Don Gately is one of the main staff members at Ennet House, the halfway house for recovering addicts in Infinite Jest. He is a former burglar and addict who…
This is a cardinal reading to analyse the relationship between Tony Soprano and his mother, the one that runs through the entire series and, in the end, structures almost everything he is. The Ascendant is Tony, because I wanted to see the relationship through his eyes. The Descendant is Livia, as the Other. The Imum…
I decided to analyse William Stoner through the symbolism of the Tarot, since he is one of my favourite literary characters. Stoner, by John Williams, is a novel about an entire Stoic life lived without heroic gestures or visible conquests, but with a strong inner coherence. My cardinal reading uses the cards as a way…
