• Tarot: How Will My Week Go? #2

    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…

  • Will The Love Affair Be Exposed?

    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…

  • Jupiter in the 4 and 8 of Swords

    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?…

  • Tarot: Don Gately

    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…

  • Tarot: Tony Soprano and His Mother

    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…