Desert Oracle

I have returned from the San Francisco Bay Area Tarot Symposium (BATS), and it was excellent! According to its producer, Thalassa Queen of BATS, this year’s Symposium was the biggest and best yet. Ninety-odd people attended, including Solandia, owner of the Aeclectic Tarot Forum, all the way from Australia! Two full days of Tarot lectures [...]

I will be attending the Bay Area Tarot Symposium in San Francisco on October 3rd and 4th.  The theme is a celebration of the Waite-Smith Tarot, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. This will be my 3rd BATS, a wonderful weekend of Tarot produced by the amazing Thalassa and the Daughters of Divination. Presenters [...]

In my collection of Tarot spreads, I came across one I have not used before…the Back to School Spread by Mark McElroy. It’s goal is to “help you realize your growth as a Tarot reader, identify areas for further exploration & growth, and find the resources to seed new growth”. Enjoying my Labor Day holiday, [...]

Another new deck has made its way to my collection! Australian artist Helen Meinicke’s beautiful Far Sight Tarot was published in December of 2006, in a limited edition of 50 decks. Painted in acrylic, the cards are large (3.5 x 6 inches) and truly allow the art to shine. “Inspiration for the Far Sight came [...]

I have some new decks in my collection, acquired over the past few weeks. Top of the list is a long out of print (OOP) deck called the Minotarot. I first became acquainted with this deck from an online review. The deck is based on the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur and, given my [...]

Where has the summer gone? It’s August, and almost time to go back to work. I haven’t done a PDR reading in a while, and have missed working with the Fifth Tarot. So, in this time of transition, I have used the Five Card Spread from Art Rosengarten’s Tarot of the Nine Paths. I chose returning [...]

Thanks to cynthea for allowing me to post her list of Tarot images from Rosanne Cash’s music video “The Wheel”! (Sorry it took me so long to post, but I was basking in the southern California sun for 3 weeks and am just getting back into my routines) 9/Swords 4/Swords Ace/Wands II/High Priestess VII/The Chariot [...]

From author/illustrator Robert M. Place comes a wonderful new deck, The Vampire Tarot. Place is the creator of the Angels Tarot, The Alchemical Tarot, Tarot of the Saints, The Buddha Tarot and the author of The Tarot: History, Symbolism and Divination. The Vampire Tarot is a first-rate publication all around. Published by St. Martin’s Press, [...]

Rosanne Cash – The Wheel (Official Music Video) What an amazing video!  How many Tarot references can you identify?  I’ll post a list later…thanks, Wisdom Moon!

Having just finished reading Don Miguel Ruiz’ The Four Agreements, I decided to try out Kilted Kat’s spread (I tweaked it a bit). The book/spread is based on 4 principles for effective living. Here are my results (the agreements are in bold): Be impeccable with your word. This will help me to speak my Truth: [...]