Since 2010, The Academy of Cartomancy Arts & Sciences has been handing out Pecto Awards meant ‘to celebrate and acknowledge the best achievement in cartomancy’ for the previous year.
There are twelve categories for cartomancy enthusiasts to vote for including everything from Outstanding Tarot and Oracle Decks, Illustrators and Collaborators to Outstanding Books, Publishers, and Vendors.
And not only are these Tarot icons going to be on the show, they’re going to be interviewing each other. I can hardly wait to hear what they have to say.
He’s also the author of multiple books on the histories of Tarot, magic, astrology, and alchemy.
Enrique Enriquez is an inspirational Tarot poet and author of Tarology. He’s also the star of Chris Delio’s most excellent recent Tarot documentary, Tarology: the poetics of tarot.
This is going to be a fun night – I hope you can join us. We’ll be live in the chat room. And if you’d like to call in to listen, the number is (646) 200-0765.
Marie Anne Lenormand was a French fortune-teller born in the late 1700s. Through the Napoleonic era she was heralded as one of the greatest cartomancers of all time.
Mlle. Lenormand was said to have read for the likes of Robespierre, Marat, the Empress Josephine, and Czar Alexander himself.
She made quite a stir during her lifetime, writing books and other texts, causing many a public controversy, and sometimes even ending up in jail.
And though she herself didn’t use the deck her name was later attached to, her cartomantic powers seem to have lived on through it.
The Lenormand deck in its various manifestations has become quite in fashion among the Tarot folk these days. Even I recently caught the bug.
At BATS I attended a seminar on the topic with Mary Greer and within hours I had myself two news decks of 36 cards each.
You read these cards a little differently than Tarot. The meanings of each are much more fixed. They’re more like words in a sentence than symbols in a dream, but I’m starting to catch on.
Beyond Worlds has a Lenormand tutorial series and Donnaleigh herself has been posting how-to videos. I’ve got a lot watching and listening to do.
And though I’m looking forward to having a new divinatory tool to play with, I’m afraid I’ll find all the new Lenormand decks hard to resist.
Not only is Donche hilarious, he’s a creative genius as well, as can be seen by his about-to-be-published Darkana Tarot Deck.
I’ve had mine on order since February and can hardly wait to see it for real. And I’m really looking forward to hearing what Donche has to say about it tonight.
Join me and Donnaleigh de LaRose and everyone else live in the chat room, or call in at (646) 200-0765.
It’s going to be fun, and probably inappropriate as well.
Not only is Donche hilarious, he’s a creative genius as well, as can be seen by his about-to-be-published Darkana Tarot Deck.
I’ve had mine on order since February and can hardly wait to see it for real. And I’m really looking forward to hearing what Donche has to say about it tonight.
Join me and Donnaleigh de LaRose and everyone else live in the chat room, or call in at (646) 200-0765.
Tonight on Beyond Worlds we have a very special treat! Chris Deleo, Kimberlie Naughton , and Enrique Enriquez will be joining us to talk about the movie all Tarot enthusiasts have been waiting for – Tarology : The Poetics of Tarot.
Deleo and Naughton’s full-length documentary features Enrique Enriquez, the Tarot of Marseille, poetry, story-telling, and the streets of New York City. It’s just fabulous!!!
Also in the film are interviews with Tarot experts like Rachel Pollack, Mary Greer, Sasha Graham, Dan Pelletier, Robert M. Place, Shawn Nacol and Beyond Worlds’ very own Donnaleigh de LaRose!
I can hardly wait! Join us all live in the chat room, or call in at (646) 200-0765.
And if you want to pre-order a copy of the film for yourself, visit the Tarology Film website. They’ll be shipping them out in early June.
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.
We had so much to talk about last time that we’re doing another show …. tonight on Beyond Worlds it’s part two of our discussion on Boundaries for Tarot readers.
The expert panel is back to talk about how to establish, modify, and/or maintain personal and professional boundaries as a reader. And it’s not always easy.
Each reader has a different experience and a different perspective on how to work with clients or other readers. And each will have to determine for themselves where they’ll draw their personal and professional lines.
