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A wee blog thing by Shaira. A space for blogging my own thoughts and experiences with tarot, instead of cluttering up everyone's discussion threads. 🙂 Musings on esoterica, comments on spreads and daily readings, occasional mini-reviews, etc. 

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#DeckReflections

Reflections on the Radiant Wise Spirit and Golden Art Nouveau Tarot Decks

Hi everyone - this isn't really a review, but just some thoughts after receiving the Golden Art Nouveau Tarot Deck. It's a very personal view, and I appreciate not everyone will agree. It's also not an attempt to criticise or blame. Please take it in the spirit of positive critique of two very beautiful contemporary RWS-family decks. 🙂   So, it's been a little less than a week since I received my copy of the Golden Art Nouveau Tarot deck, an impulse buy having seen its gorgeous art onl
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#BookReviews

Book Review: The Esoteric Tarot, by Ronald Decker

This is the second time I've read The Esoteric Tarot by Ronald Decker, and, universe permitting, it won't be the last. It's a good, interesting, worthwhile read. I dig it, and I recommend it to anyone with an interest in how our wonderful tarot came into being.   It's not without flaws, however. I'm going to couch that mild criticism in an aura of praise; to my knowledge, this is the first properly academic attempt to present a coherent theory of the deep sources, origins, and developm
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#ElementalDignities

More Elemental Dignities: The Counsel Spread

Recently my daily three-card spread has been very much giving me the same message, so today I thought I'd break out and upwards into a more detailed spread to give me a lot more information about my situation. I opted for my "Counsel Spread", which is a seven-card horseshoe spread, and a variant on the traditional three-card PPF spread.    Like the three-card PPF, you have the "Present" card in the bottom centre, officially position #4, but it's always the first card I lay. Next comes
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#TarotTheory

The Court Cards Conundrum

Over the past weeks and months, I've finally been getting to grips properly with something that's bugged me for years: the difficulty of grasping the tarot's court cards. They've always been difficult to pin down for me; the simplest meanings are always out there, but the moment you scratch the surface, the meanings you read and receive are contradictory at best, and downright confusing at worst. I've been trying to work this out for myself, and thought the whole process might be worth a blog po
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#ElementalDignities

More Elemental Dignities

So it wasn't my intention to blog two days in a row, but here we are! 🙂 This morning's daily three-carder, quite unusually, produced another fab example of using elemental dignities instead of reversals, and I wanted to share it.    Now, I don't use standard reversals in my spreads. In other words, I don't shuffle a deck which contains certain cards upside down, which are then read as reversed when dealt. I used to, when I first began reading many moons ago, as that's how I thought you
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#DailyTarot

An Earth-heavy Daily 3-Card Spread

I don't think I've had quite such an earth-heavy daily 3-carder before! This is just a personal daily spread, and as you can see I have Two of Pentacles (Harmonious Change) in the past, the Devil in the present, and Three of Pentacles (Material Works) in the future.    Against initial appearances, this is actually quite a positive spread for my daily reflections. But first of all, the elemental dignities: the Devil is Capricorn, so another Earth card alongside both the Pentacles cards.
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