He’ll be holding three weekly 2-hour sessions starting Wednesday, August 8th at the New York Open Center on East 30th Street.
Using his incredible book The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination as a guide, Place will start the course by exploring the historical symbolism found in the original Renaissance decks.
He’ll go on to teach techniques for developing your intuition and for reading cards as a message from the Higher Self.
Take a look at his website to learn more. If I were in NYC in August, I’d definitely be at those classes.
If you’re a Tarot reader interested in learning more about astrology, or an astrologer interested in learning something about Tarot, you should really check out Corrine Kenner’s book Tarot and Astrology.
It takes two unique yet related topics and melds them together with ease. The book is straight-forward, friendly, and packed with information.
Even if you know nothing about astrology, with some understanding of Tarot, you’ll be quickly on your way to creating and interpreting your own chart.
And as the subtitle of the book promises, it will ‘enhance your [Tarot] readings with the wisdom of the zodiac.’ It’s true, it will!
Take a look at the video below to hear Corrine talk about her book with astrologer Nadiya Shah.
This afternoon, we have the good fortune of interviewing him ourselves on Beyond Worlds.
He’ll be talking with us about some of the Tarot reading methods found in his new book Tarot Face to Face, including using reversals, reading for cynics, creating oracular sentences, exquisite corpses, the Dwayne’s Boomerang Spread, and the Literal Lenormand Method.
Also co-edited with Tali Goodwin, Tarot Turn is part of a three volume collaborative effort of 140 different Tarot readers from around the world.
Each reader was given a single card and was asked to write a description of how that card interacts with each of the other 77 cards in the deck.
As can be imagined, it was an enormous project and has manifested in some pretty gigantic books. This first volume alone is 569 pages. It features 3,388 pairings of the Major Arcana – all 22 cards, upright and reversed.
It also includes disaffirmations for all 78 cards, spreads, reading techniques, as well as some mini-essays about reversals from people like Barbara Moore and Robert M. Place.
Join Donnaleigh de LaRose and myself to hear more about this incredible Tarot reference work and how to read Tarot Face to Face.
We’ll be live in the chat room, or you can call in at (646) 200-0765 to listen.
My dear Tarot Buddy, Bill Tarot, sent me the link to this website – Know Your Tarot.
Not only is it a great Tarot resource with comprehensive descriptions of all 78 cards, symbol definitions, Tarot spreads, history, books, even jokes … it also has a page of free downloadable Tarot goodies.
There are links to free printable decks as well as Tarot e-books, cheat sheets, and pamphlets.
But the reason Bill Tarot led me there was specifically for the free download of The Correspondence Between Frieda Harris and Aleister Crowley.
What a pleasure it was to read! I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the Thoth Tarot, Aleister Crowley, or Tarot history in general.
Even for people making decks of their own, it might be fun.
Hearing Lady Frieda describe her own process could prove inspirational, or at least remind us that nothing worthwhile comes easy.
The exercise demonstrated in the video below is kind of interesting.
In it a woman holds a Tarot card she’s randomly chosen from the deck. Without looking at it, she concentrates on what she feels or senses around the card and jots down some words that come to mind.
She also draws out images she’s ‘getting’ from the card without actually seeing it.
It’s not a fast paced clip and the results aren’t earth shattering, but when it comes right down to it they are kind of remarkable.
I don’t know the people who made this film, so I can’t verify whether what’s going on in it is real or not. But I’ve done similar exercises myself and have achieved very similar results.
Last summer I wrote about Ricardo Olvera’s Bone Tarot art show in Reno, Nevada.
To construct his sculptural deck, Olvera assembled animal bones and other found objects to create twenty-two Major Arcana pieces. The result was spectacular.
And though the use of bones brings death to the fore in this series, each piece is very much alive, and clearly inspired by the Tarot.
I’d hoped that maybe Olvera would decide to print a deck from his sculptures, but apparently that’s not to be.
Almost as good though is the book he’s put together cataloging the show. It’s absolutely gorgeous – beautiful photos, fabulous layout. Each piece really shines.
You can see the whole book on-line for yourself. Take a look, and maybe even order one. It’s definitely on my wish list.
It’s one of the first Pagan libraries in the US to make their collection available to the public.
And though it’s brand new, the collection is already significant. They have over 3,000 titles, 250 Tarot decks, and 40 different periodical and newsletter series.
It’s open to the public for browsing on Sundays from 1-5, and books can be borrowed for 28 days. The Tarot cards and periodicals can be used in-house.
And if you’d like to browse before you visit, or just browse for the fun of it, the full catalogue is online.
The library also plans to add public domain eBooks to their collection soon, focusing especially on ceremonial magic, lodge works, and medieval texts.
To find out about library events and OHF book discussions, visit the OHF website. And if you’re in D.C., go visit in person.
Tonight on Beyond Worlds we have the surprise return of Robert M. Place! He was just with us a couple of weeks ago talking about alchemy, but there wasn’t nearly enough time to learn all we wanted to.
Back in 2010, she was a guest on Beyond Worlds and we were fortunate enough to talk with her about her book. You can go to the show page to listen to that interview, or use the radio player below.
