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Two Minutes of Tarot Training: The Ace of Wands

Two Minutes of Tarot Training: The Ace of Wands

Learning Tarot through short video bites is a great way to digest the fundamental principles. I hope you’ve enjoyed this series of training videos, and I’m pleased to provide the links and transcript of the latest episode on the Ace of Wands. Click here to watch this...

Two Minutes of Tarot Training: The Ace of Swords

Two Minutes of Tarot Training: The Ace of Swords

Here’s another quick and easy training video to help you become a better Tarot reader. Today we’re looking at the Ace of Swords. Click here to watch the video on YouTube, or keep reading if you prefer to learn from a blog post. The Ace of Swords All Aces represent a...

Two Minutes of Tarot Training: The Ace of Pentacles

Two Minutes of Tarot Training: The Ace of Pentacles

This is the latest of my free YouTube videos called ‘Two Minutes of Tarot Training.’ Click here to watch the one about the Ace of Pentacles, or keep reading if you prefer to learn from a blog post. The Ace of Pentacles All Aces represent a new beginning, a time when...

Two Minutes of Tarot Training: New Videos Online Now!

Two Minutes of Tarot Training: New Videos Online Now!

Here's how you can learn Tarot through quick and easy video lessons! I’ve just created a series of YouTube videos called ‘Two Minutes of Tarot Training.’ I’ve set up a few to start with, and more will be produced as I get time. Since the Aces are the start of the...

The Hermit’s Journey

The Hermit’s Journey

The great Persian poet and Sufi mystic Rumi asked, “When will you begin that long journey into yourself?” The Hermit is one who took that journey and gained awareness of his mind, body, and spirit. The Hermit travelled far and wide to broaden his perspectives and seek...

A Valentine’s Day Reading

A Valentine’s Day Reading

Just in time for Valentine’s Day... a Tarot spread about love. But this is not your ordinary, mushy reading about romance — this is about true love and your responsibilities to the concept of love. This reading is based on ideas from Tarot teacher Mary K. Greer, and...

Tarot for Clear Direction

Tarot for Clear Direction

Each day is filled with choices and decisions we must make. This can sometimes feel overwhelming, especially when the results of those decisions can have a major impact on the rest of your life. As the Buddha said, “How can a troubled mind understand the way?” Each...

Get Real – Tarot Superstitions to Overcome

Get Real – Tarot Superstitions to Overcome

We live in an enlightened age. In these modern times, consider having a modern approach to Tarot, which means leaving behind the Dark Ages of superstition and ignorance. Let's deal with some of the superstitious concepts that I see on Tarot forums occasionally... Q:...

How to Know the Meaning of a Tarot Card

How to Know the Meaning of a Tarot Card

There’s a big difference between reciting an interpretation for a card, compared to knowing what that card is all about. Here’s how to gain a profound understanding of a Tarot card’s meaning in a really short period of time. Let’s use the card called The Emperor for...

Tarot Card Meanings

Tarot Card Meanings

When you’ve dealt your Tarot cards for a reading, but your mind goes blank on the meaning of one of the images, what can you do? Here’s a simple way to kick-start an interpretation of any Tarot card’s meaning: think of the qualities of the suit it belongs to. The suit...

How Tarot Reading Works

How Tarot Reading Works

The lights have been dimmed, there is a cup of tea or coffee by your side, and you have a question in mind about your future. You pick up your Tarot cards and start to shuffle them. Your question is about the possibility of a relationship with that friend who has...

A Brief Guide to Tarot Cards

A Brief Guide to Tarot Cards

Lockdowns during the Covid pandemic resulted in many people having more time for introspection about their lives, and serious contemplation about their future. For many it was a time of learning yoga, or doing regular meditation, and for some people it also provided...

Do Free Tarot Readings Have Any Value?

Do Free Tarot Readings Have Any Value?

An ad for a free Tarot reading is enticing, but is it really worth clicking there? If it’s only costing your time then it may not seem like it’s a big risk, but what about the price of wrong information? Most people want to know that circumstances in their lives are...

The Birthplace of Tarot

The Birthplace of Tarot

In the heart of Milan, the Sforza Castle is a main drawcard for tourists. It’s now a noted museum and art gallery, but very few tourists realise its significance in the history of Tarot. Historians agree that Tarot was invented within the walls of this castle around...

What’s so Important about the Suit of Pentacles?

What’s so Important about the Suit of Pentacles?

This suit puts the magic into Tarot. How does it do this? The pentacle is a symbol of magic that has been important to almost every ancient culture. The pentacle represented the five visible planets, and it was the symbol of the Goddess Venus. It soon became important...

Interview with Ciro Marchetti

Over ten years ago, when Llewellyn Publications asked Ciro Marchetti to do the artwork for a new deck (The Gilded Tarot) he didn’t know anything about Tarot, but he’s come a long way since then. I had the pleasure of meeting Ciro at the UK Tarot Conference in 2013....

An Interview with a Tarot Deck Creator: Zach Wong

When laying Tarot cards into a spread, a different interpretation is sometimes given to cards turning up ‘reversed’ or up-side-down. People give inverted cards an opposing interpretation to an upright one, or they say the impact of the card’s usual meaning is...

Paul Fenton-Smith Interview

While Paul Fenton-Smith was visiting Adelaide, I had the chance to ask him a few questions about Tarot. Some of the questions were serious, and some were frivolous, but Paul was gracious enough to respond to all of them with the following answers… Don: What do you...

Interview with Rachel Pollack

In 2008, Rachel Pollack (Tarot author) was in Adelaide, South Australia, for some workshops. I was able to catch up with her for a quick interview about her first book on Tarot. Don: Your book ‘Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom’ has been around for over 25 years. When...

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