PinnedParsifal the Scribe·Dec 6, 2021Is 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…A response icon1A response icon1
Parsifal the Scribe·2h agoThe Extended Life-Reading: An Exercise in Futility?AUTHOR’S NOTE: Tarot clients sometimes ask for an extended life-reading (or, more precisely, a “life’s purpose” analysis) to help them…
Parsifal the Scribe·1d agoThe “Self-Projection Game” — A Study in Signs and CardsAUTHOR’S NOTE: In the “Chaldean” system of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, each of the twelve astrological signs was allotted a…
Parsifal the Scribe·2d agoSelf-Reading and the Danger of “Auto-Suggestion”AUTHOR’S NOTE: There is an opinion among critics of the “empowerment” approach to divination that, when performing self-analysis with the…
Parsifal the Scribe·3d agoPredicting Death Potential as an Outcome of “Risk Assessment”AUTHOR’S NOTE: Tarot beginners are usually told that attempting to predict someone’s death is unethical (although divining the “end of…
Parsifal the Scribe·4d agoHuman for Hire: Tarot Reading in the “Helping Professions”AUTHOR’S NOTE: I often describe tarot reading as being among the “helping professions,” which means loosely that, for a fee, we assist…
Parsifal the Scribe·5d agoSynchronicity: A “Bucket Full of Fish”AUTHOR’S NOTE: Be advised that I’m really letting my imagination loose on this one in the Douglas Adams tradition of absurdity. As my…
Parsifal the Scribe·6d agoWaiting for God . . . and WaitingAUTHOR’S NOTE: In the Samuel Beckett play Waiting for Godot, the main characters await the arrival of the mysterious Godot, who keeps…
Parsifal the Scribe·6d agoThe “Ordinary Mystic” and the Logical DivinerAUTHOR’S NOTE: Reading between the lines of Robert Anton Wilson’s discussion of “neurosomatic” circuits in Prometheus Rising, he seems to…
Parsifal the Scribe·Nov 7Tarot Spread Design — “A Better Eye to See and Judge”AUTHOR’S NOTE: Although he was talking about the more mystical subject of “Gaia consciousness” as a neurosomatic phenomenon in Prometheus…