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Parsifal the Scribe

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Is the Practice of Divination Irrelevant or Dishonest?

As I continue to explore the sketchy written history of the early tarot, I frequently encounter the observation that the tarot cards, prior…

Dec 6, 2021

Dec 6, 2021

Numerous Reversals as Trade-offs: Pyrrhic Victories and Strategic Retreats

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Encountering numerous reversed cards in a brief tarot reading can present a challenge that is difficult to resolve. In an…

10h ago

10h ago

The Sixes: Pathways of Progress

AUTHOR’S NOTE: In Dawn Jackson’s “Hedgewytchery” system of playing-card divination, one general keyword for the number Six is “paths,”…

1d ago

1d ago

Over-interpretation: Looking for Trouble in All the Wrong Places

AUTHOR’S NOTE: I admit to being more than a little skeptical of the “empowerment” (aka “cheerleading”) mode of divination and of unbridled…

2d ago

2d ago

“A Worldwide Hoodoo” — Tarot and Romance

“I done called up a Gypsy woman on the telephone Gonna put out a worldwide hoodoo That’s the very thing that’ll suit you I’m going to see…

3d ago

3d ago

Leveraging the French Cross: An Alternative to Yes-or-No Reading

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Conventional wisdom is that tarot is ineffective for addressing simple “yes-or-no” questions because it is more suitable for…

4d ago

Leveraging the French Cross: An Alternative to Yes-or-No Reading

4d ago

Deck Preparation: Clearing and Neutralizing

AUTHOR’S NOTE: The subject of “randomizing” a tarot deck before pulling the specific cards for a reading is one that suffers from much…

5d ago

5d ago

The Message for the Querent: A “Quick-Read” Technique

AUTHOR’S NOTE: I’ve been re-reading 54 Devils by Cory Hutcheson, which is a brief treatise on playing-card cartomancy. (The standard deck…

5d ago

5d ago

Missing in Plain Sight? — A Local-Area “Search Envelope”

AUTHOR’S NOTE: What’s to be done when one wakes up at 2:00 AM and can’t get back to sleep? I don’t know about you, but I think about tarot…

Mar 29

Missing in Plain Sight? — A Local-Area “Search Envelope”

Mar 29

The Turning Away: Reversal as the “Other Fork”

AUTHOR’S NOTE: The title of this essay was inspired by the Pink Floyd song “On the Turning Away,” although my use of the idea isn’t…

Mar 29

Mar 29

Parsifal the Scribe

Parsifal the Scribe

I’ve been involved in the esoteric arts since 1972, with a primary interest in tarot and astrology. See my previous work at www.parsifalswheeldivination.com.

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