This moonthly missive has been delayed because I was having a wonderful experience for a terrible reason: I co-taught Wisdom of the Tarot at Omega because I was filling in for Rachel Pollack, my Tarot teacher and the teacher of so many through her wisdom-filled books and decks, whose cancer has returned. Rachel announced the [...] Learn more →
This post was original published on July 1, 2009 following Readers Studio that year. I’m re-posting it because it seems that the memory of Robert Desnos has something to say to us right now. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working on a poem about the events described below and last Friday Celia Alario, [...] Learn more →
Mary Greer has an interesting post on her blog about a 1935 deck and one of the Tarot spreads included in the little instruction book accompanying the deck. The spread uses 13 cards, but you only turn over 5 of the cards. The rest must remain facedown; you never see them. In the comments, Mary [...] Learn more →