A strong foundation makes for a strong Tower!
How to work with the Tower to avoid burning your candle at both ends and create stability and boundaries.
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Re-visioning the Tower
The Tower’s hidden face – that of the enduring house of God – has been on my mind and inspired this painting.
Let your light shine out
People always see the worst when the Tower comes in a reading. It can be a hard energy to deal with but there is another side to the Tower where it can be a card of stability.
Ep 06 Interviews about change with James Wells
This is the fifth interview in a series about changing, getting stuck and finding the life you want. You can find the podcast on all services or if you’d like to get it in your email along with other blog posts click here to join the bi-weekly newsletter. In this interview I chat with James […]
Jamaican Tarot – The Majors Part 1
While in Jamaica I used my iPhone to create a Tarot deck in 6 days.
EP 05 Interviews about change with Lon Milo DuQuette
In this interview I chat with Lon Milo DuQuette about change, tarot and initiation. We cover:
the relationship between asking the right question and getting the answer you need
ceremonial magick and it’s relationship to the tarot
what magickal people ask when they get readings
the real reason Lon made his own deck
Why so many birds in my Tarot deck?
I have been continually surprised by how many birds are showing up in my drawings of the tarot cards. Pelicans, storks, hawks, doves, and a variety of other avian friends. I just did this painting last week of the red wing blackbird. I have been getting my groove with painting again and am very happy […]
Making Hidden Knowledge Speak
One of the things I love about Tarot is the mystery. Doing a reading involves processes that are at best obscure and often transcend conscious understanding. I am at a loss beyond a certain point to really answer how I do what I do. Studying the cards brings up a variety of issues that may […]
Fun with a Camera and tarot
This shot is one I will be using for some promotional stuff. Thought you might enjoy it. Would you like to learn more about reading Tarot or get a reading done? I am available anywhere in the world via phone or skype or in person in Toronto. Book here. Comment Guidelines If you would like […]
The Wheel of Fortune
I see the wheel of fortune as a multi-faceted image. It is about multi lifetime issues and patterns on all scales. Below is a mask which I was given from Mexico that hangs in my reading room. It shows the three stages of life youth, old age and death. This image inspired a lot of […]
EP 04 Interviews about change with Art Rosengarten
This is the sixth interview in a series about changing, getting stuck and finding the life you want. You can find the podcast on all services or if you’d like to get it in your email along with other blog posts click here to join the bi-weekly newsletter. In this interview I chat with Art […]
The Chariot manifests itself.
Here is a better drawing of the Chariot card. Would you like to learn more about reading Tarot or get a reading done? I am available anywhere in the world via phone or skype or in person in Toronto. Book here. Comment Guidelines If you would like to leave a comment please do leave supportive […]
The Hermit – In search of the light
I love the Hermit. I love the searching for truth. I love the austerity. I love the silence and the seclusion. To me the Hermit and the cave are one. Together they search beyond the boundaries of existence or at least incarnation. Though the drawing does not show it so clearly in black and white, […]
Roll out the Chariot
I have been pondering the Chariot as the process of entering the world of duality. For some reason I am still trying to make sense of the Gnostic deity Abraxas feels very relevant to this card. If you look at the charioteer, chariot and the twin serpents carrying it forward it is in some way […]
EP 03 Interviews about change with Mary Greer
This is the third interview in a series about changing, getting stuck and finding the life you want. You can find the podcast on all services or if you’d like to get it in your email along with other blog posts click here to join the bi-weekly newsletter. Mary Greer and I caught up so […]
The Hierophant – initiation and baptism
In working on this card I was thinking about John the baptist a lot. It is a cleansing, a baptism, and an initiation. I think that the Hierophant initiates us in to the mysteries of life and prepares us to receive deeper mysteries about what transcends this life. He is the beginning of the process […]
Layers on top of layers
As I have been working on the cards, and especially the Lovers card, I find myself thinking about the structure or architecture of the cards. With working on the cards there is often a movement or structure behind the image. In conceptualizing the Lovers card I realized there is a three part layering going on […]
The Lovers card
I think that the Lovers is the most complex card in the deck. I have been pondering it and chewing it over for a long time – just trying to get to it’s essence. In terms of ideas this card speaks of: • the promise of union • the ceremony of marriage • contracts • jealousy • inner conflict • looking […]
Audio interviews are now on iTunes
I have set up an iTunes channel for the audio content of the blog. If you would like an easy way to sync my series “Interviews about change” with your computer, phone or whatever you can do it all through iTunes by clicking this link. I will still post all the content here – you […]
Tarot of the Inner Process
Well, that is the name I keep coming back to for my deck. As I delve further into the creation of this deck I realize that it will be several things at once. pardon me if some of this is a bit obtuse. It is only just recently emerging from the far corners of my […]