Why You Should Make Your Own Tarot Cards
With a little experimentation, it is simple to make your own tarot cards using whatever symbols you want, a deck that you, the practitioner, can modify.
Archaic Drum Interview w/ Kelly-Ann Maddox
Kelly-Ann Maddox: After picking up her first Tarot deck at a young age, Kelly-Ann developed an intense passion for the tool and has now spent almost two decades exploring its potential. In her work as an intuitive spiritual counsellor, she seeks to combine the rich, symbolic language of the cards with different psycho-spiritual modalities including Transpersonal Psychology and Jungian Psychoanalysis.
The State of the Occult: 2013
Reality Sandwich asked two of our leading occult scholars, Richard
Smoley and Mitch Horowitz, to share their observations about the current
state of mysticism in America, and where they see the field heading in
the future.
The History and Structure of the Naipes
The French tarot was believed to have been adapted from a medieval card game known in Italy as naibi. By 1377, in Spain,
naipes cards were in wide use. To this day, folk healers in Peru use the naipes as a diagnostic tool in the treatment of psychosomatic disorders.
Magical Thinking: It’s in the Cards
One of the most accessible tools a writer can use for breaking through writer's block, developing characters, and organizing chapter outlines is the Tarot deck. These decks are intended as divinatory systems but, as you'll see, that's not how I use them.
The Power of Context
Context is everything, and it literally determines which "me" shows up. I have seen this again and again in various roles over the years. But context can also work against us.
The Rebirth of Tarot
As the 1950s wore on, the occult could seem like something of a spent force in American life. Foes of Spiritualism had exposed one mediumistic fraud after another. By the end of the decade, the occult could appear to be little more than an amalgam of eccentrics and loners. A new voice was needed. And it arrived just as the cusp of the 1960s came into sight.
Courage, Synchronicity, and the Technology of Magic
Synchronicity, the sensation that something magical has just occurred, is but an artifact of our limited technology of mind. It is only astounding when we persist in the delusion that we are distinct from the all and everything. Expanding consciousness beyond the limited point of view of oneself — this is the technology of magic.
The Magician
At the gateway to the Major Arcana stands the Magician. He is the bright, enduring presence on this journey of awakening that we, by virtue of our birth, have chosen to undertake. The Magician pulls the chain on the cosmic lamp switch, beaming the light of pure awareness onto life.
Galactik Games
The Galactik Trading Card Oracle Complex offers mystical games, "meta-tarot" readings, and a microgallery of entheo art.