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Tarot for Writers

The Tarot and Quantum Physics

Mankind and Oracles Mankind has probably been using oracles of one sort or another for as long as we have been recognisably human. We’ve used bones, entrails, yarrow stalks, coins, water, stones, the stars, dreams, cards, tea-leaves, handwriting. The Delphic Oracle functioned for hundreds of years, with eminent kings consulting it regularly and even fighting [...]

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Virtual Tarot

According to one site on the web, ‘virtual tarot’ is a gag. But tarot has the strange habit of surprising us, and on one site, the comment ‘the virtual tarot thing is just a gag, what you do is put a . (period) in the petition and write the answer, then actually ask it and [...]

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Painting the Bones: an Artist’s Guide to the Death card

With the first crocuses out in the garden, it’s a little odd to find my thoughts centering on death – and the tarot Death card. The latter is often depicted as a skeleton wielding a scythe and cutting down King and commoner alike. Given that the first tarot decks appeared shortly after the Black Death [...]

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