Beginning with Tarot

Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Everything stood for something else; if you had the right dictionary, you could read Nature itself. It was hardly surprising to find philosophers using the symbolism of their time to interpret knowledge that came from a mysterious source.” – Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass I am lucky enough to make a part of my living reading tarot. In the past I worked at Amazon.com. I started in the warehouse and eventually ended up being a jewelry buyer, but left the company because of visions and ethical
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The Supreme Arcanum

In preparation for Okult Sunday, which is a Seattle club night for Resurrection Sundays at the Baltic Room, there is a semi-private ritual performed before the night. For the theme of tarot and the October 5th night called The Supreme Arcanum, I decided to do a ritual that I use prior to “significant readings” wherein I invoke Thoth, construct a tarot mandala per Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Way of Tarot, and then do the reading from the center of this mandala. I recorded it on video for documentary purposes and also for self-promotion (one of my vocations is tarot reader, –
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