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Friday Tarot Link Love
Happy weekend! The weather here is shite, and while I’d like to step away from my devices, it’s probably not going to happen. If you’re looking for some tarot goodness, here are a few things to check out: Camelia Elias has a new book. The talismanic version is sold out, but the paperback is available on Amazon. If you’ve never read Camelia Elias, you can read this essay to figure out where to start. In the mood to craft? Want to get your sew on? Sew silk tarot bags with Catomancy Tarot. Watch my friend Jess discuss in a completely genuine and authentic way how she does tarot in response to #Howdoyoudotartot? Don’t…
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Cranky McCranky Pants, or the People of the Tarot de Marseille
The other day, I threw some cards and asked if blogging was a good idea. I didn’t exactly get the answer I wanted, but that’s ok, I never listen to anyone anyway, one of my issues I suppose. But I enjoyed the process, and I particularly enjoyed using my Tarot de Marseille deck, Tarot de Marseille Jean Dodal 1701 restored by Jean-Claude Flornoy. Today, I thought I’d talk about the parameters of what I mean when I say “Tarot de Marseille” versus Marseille style tarot versus modern pip decks so there’s no confusion going forward. The oldest known Tarot de Marseille deck, the Jean Noblet of 1659 (ok, so there’s talk of an…
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My Tarot Story
When I was a teenager circa 1986, our local radio station, WMMR, hosted a somewhat annual parade, the Louie Louie parade. It was just what it sounded like – folks marched down Broad Street singing Louie Louie, over and over again. That was it. That’s what fun looked like in 1986. So, a bunch of us took the train into town from the suburbs, Louie Louie’d our way down Broad Street to South Street, land of record stores, bookstores, novelties and new age stores. Very arty compared to the strip malls of the suburbs, and we felt super cool. In one of the New Age stores, Garland of Letters, which is still there,…
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Hello and thank you!
Hello and welcome to my little corner of the internet! This isn’t my first clean, well lighted place on the web. I’ve blogged about knitting, about crafting, about life in general, but now I want to blog about my current passion, tarot. Right now, in particular, I’m fixated on Tarot de Marseille, and I was originally going to call this blog, Marseille All Day. The rhythm, the colors, the language, the images, the wordplay, the rhymes, the poetry – that’s where my head is right now, with the language of the birds, and Tarot de Marseille, Marseille style tarot, historic tarots and modern pip decks. But is that where my head and heart…
