This is the 22nd year of the fabulous Tarot gathering, and the first year it will be held in San Jose.
The program is still in the works, but there’s already a long list of fabulous speakers including Lon Milo Duquette, Nancy Antenucci, Rana George, and Carrie Paris. See the ever-growing list at the Daughters of Divination website.
And if you’re planning on joining the BATS fun, consider registering before June 1st for the special Early Bird Rate.
It’s going to be a good time … I hope I can get there!!
Iggy Pop has a new album out with the Stooges called Ready to Die. But if we’re to believe the Tarot reader he visited in the video below, he’s not at all ready to go just yet.
If you’re interested in learning something about timing with your Tarot cards, take a look at this excellent video by Kate, the Daily Tarot Girl.
In it, she offers some great tips on what timing indicators you might look for in a reading. But maybe even more interesting, she discusses whether timing is even really possible with Tarot.
In Tarot, the final card in the Major Arcana is most often called The World, or in the case of Aleister Crowley and Frieda Harris’ Thoth Tarot, the Universe.
The World, or Universe card, can represent a culmination of events, and an exciting return to being whole.
It reflects a connection with the grander scheme of existence, and an enlightenment that serves as reward for the long journey through the Major Arcana from the Fool to Judgment.
When it appears in a reading, it’s most often a joy, and indicates a chance to catch your breath and have a good time before jumping right back in and starting again at zero.
I like to think of the Universe card as a step back into the ether from which the Fool first emerged.
It’s the celebratory dance with the divine after a long haul through the muck of daily life, a chance to float with the stars, at least for a short time.
And though I love what the World, or Universe, represents in Tarot, what science has to say about it is at least as enchanting.
Take a look at the MinutePhysics video below to see how physicists might describe the 21st card of the Tarot deck.
Bacon has been appearing lately in all sorts of food items where one might not expect it, and where it probably shouldn’t be. There are bacon flavoured cupcakes, candy canes, ice cream, coffee, vodka, and even toothpaste (which I know isn’t actually a food item).
But now bacon has moved beyond the food realm and entered the world of divination.
Unlike the fish, however, which focuses on questions of love, the bacon focuses more on questions of bacon preparation (though the answers, of course, can be interpreted any way you want).
For instance, if the bacon moves to the left, the answer to your question is ‘chewy goodness’. If it moves to the right, it’s ‘crispy.’ If both ends move, the bacon is saying ‘sizzling hot’, while if the sides curl, the answer is ‘Canadian.’
I’m not sure how useful a divinatory tool the Radiant Farms Fortune Telling Bacon really is, but as a mystically oriented vegetarian, it’s far more attractive to me than bacon flavoured coffee. And I like that ‘Canadian’ is one of the answers.
Though it’s not exactly a Tarot deck, the Lufthansa City Center Tarot is apparently a fantastic little sales generator.
The video below, posted by David Hofmann, explains how an oracle deck was used by the Lufthansa City Center Travel Agency to let fate help their customers choose the perfect holiday destination.
