Desert Oracle

March 28th was the first meeting of our local Tarot Meetup. We had around 20 people attend, with a wide variety of experience with the Tarot. Some were complete beginners, some had a few years’ experience, a few were simply curious, still others are students with the OTO, who are studying the Crowley deck in [...]

A month or so ago, I attended a presentation on the Mayan calendar, given by my dear friend Wisdom Moon. She has been studying the calendar for over 20 years. Part of her presentation was a mention of an unusual artifact,  the crystal skulls.  There are several nearly life-size skulls made of quartz crystal in [...]

Ahhh…spring is here (although if you look at our weather, you would swear that spring began in January!) and so is spring break! A week away from school and the time to do whatever I choose. Our first Tarot Meetup group will convene on Saturday the 28th. My co-organizer and I will meet this week [...]

I have just received the Kunati mass market edition of Kat Black’s Touchstone Tarot (I also have the limited edition deck). It’s production qualities are excellent; gilt edges, substantial book, sturdy hinged box and large, well printed cards. I decided to pull a single card to begin to get to know the deck and got the [...]

A suggestion was made on Aeclectic that, as part of our PDR, several of us would use the same spread for our weekly reading. The chosen spread was the Light and Shadow spread.  It is a 5-card spread, excellent for use as a general reading.  1. Significator – Elementor of Lotus: I chose this card, [...]

Well…this spread proved to be dead-on! The storm that was brewing on Friday lessened slightly today (although the weather was dark, cloudy, cold and wet…the first lousy weather here in 74 days).  The blow up actually happened twice…a big one last Friday, and a lesser one today (two different people).  The person who had the [...]

This week’s reading uses Eshantie’s Three Card Spread (from  Aeclectic).  My question: What do I need to know or be aware of today or tomorrow? 1.  The answer: Apprentice of Feathers – Some drama seems to be brewing in the darkening sky. The funnel cloud from above is creating a vortex below. Four groups of [...]

I have just received the first two issues of a new magazine, Tarosophist International: The Magazine of Tarosophy & Tarot, published by the British organization Tarot Professionals. It is available in two formats, a hard-copy print magazine and a download, both available here (The magazine is free with membership in the organization, or at nominal cost).  Issue 1 [...]