Posts Tagged "Italo Calvino"

TAROT and LITERATURE

Posted by on Sep 23, 2017 in Literature, Tarot | Comments Off on TAROT and LITERATURE

Autumn Equinox was yesterday as the seasonal wheel turns towards winter — the perfect time to read books! To learn more about tarot, study the classics. Seek tarot archetypes hidden in the pages. Could an aspect of THE MAGICIAN lurk in Oscar Wilde’s A Picture of Dorian Gray? Or is it THE DEVIL? THE TOWER seems like the card for Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. But if you read it, you will see how it’s a classic of Romanticism more suited to THE LOVERS than THE TOWER. THE HANGED MAN is one tarot card that most people have trouble understanding. The novel Things Fall Apart...

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Lift Your Spirit!

Posted by on Sep 25, 2016 in Animals, Feng Shui, Literature, Tarot | 4 comments

Lift Your Spirit!

One of my tarot students had a sudden accident. She hurt her back when she tripped over her dog (a lovely lab) who always follows her around. This Fire Monkey year 2016 is the time of accidents and injuries, not lingering illness like in Snake or Rabbit years. Plus her accident occurred during the recent Mercury retrograde. She selected 3 tarot cards, one each for Body, Mind, and Spirit. Body and Mind were good cards for her, but not Spirit. (This tarot spread for health is on page 164 of Introduction To Tarot.) So her spirit was waning, she was becoming discouraged, and she asked if I have...

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