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by Ruby Tuesday

February 8, 2010
2:14 PM

Conjuring The Fool

In most Tarot decks, The Fool is colorful, attention-grabbing ... yet at the same time, a worrisome figure. He looks like someone you might cross the street to avoid, if you saw him coming toward you on the sidewalk ... or a ways off down the road. He often looks appropriately homeless. He's dancing rather than walking. He sometimes plays a flute. It's not hard to imagine that he both sings and talks to himself. Like crazy people do.

He wears funny clothes and travels light. He is clearly a man on a journey. Maybe he has a fixed destination, maybe not. And where he came from ... who can tell? You might learn a thing or two if you stopped him and asked, waylaid him for a chat and asked him about the things he's seen. But you'd hesitate to do so. Even I would. He doesn't look especially dangerous, just a little looney. Looney enough to be ... well, upsetting. Worrisome was the word I used a while ago. It's a good word. It fits the man.

Conjuring The Fool

January 30, 2010
7:04 PM

Outgrowing Foolisness

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Joan Bunning Like the human race itself, The Fool, the symbol of Man in the Tarot's Major Arcana, has evolved. From his early appearance in Tarot decks of the 1400's, clad in ridiculous clothes, wandering into possible danger with an entranced and disturbingly vacant stare, he (and sometimes SHE) graces more contemporary decks in modern dress ... and with a much more engaged and deliberate manner. It's a welcome change.

The Fool of old was more the Social Clown or Court Jester ... possibly half mad (and rendered that way by who knows what experiences), possibly protected by special arrangements with the King, who would let him speak his mind -- and even say outrageous and insulting things -- as long as he amused his audience while doing it.

In that way, he was perhaps the only person able -- let alone invited -- to be authentically, completely himself. It's a theme The Fool card carries to this day.

Outgrowing Foolishness

Posted by: Ruby Tuesday
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December 19, 2009
3:45 PM

The High Priestess Card in the Tarot

The High Priestess is card number 2 in the Major Arcana, and correlates to the Moon. As The Empress is the feminine counterpart to The Emperor, The High Priestess is the feminine counterpart to The Magician. He is the symbol of the conscious mind and rational thought; she is the symbol of the subconscious mind and intuitive thought.

The High Priestess Card in the Tarot

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November 25, 2009
1:13 AM

Dealing with Death
When the Past Is not that Far Behind

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Michele Morgan, Rebecca Richards The year's end is in sight. What was once the far horizon comes closer each day. Once again, we've passed through the awesome, redoubtable season of Scorpio with its associations of death, closure, endings ... and change. The calendar says it's Sagittarius energy driving life's wheel now.

But today, it doesn't feel like Scorpio's bony hand has loosened its grip at all. As if the recent events of death and endings in my life haven't moved into the past by more than a few degrees, but instead have settled in like an unwelcome squatter (I just can't bring myself to use the word "guest") and made arrangements to become the new permanent landscape of my world.

Dealing with Death
When the Past Is not that Far Behind

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May 8, 2009
1:33 PM

What Kind of Fool
Assessing The Fool Card in the Tarot

The Fool as a symbol of humankind has come a long way from its early Tarot-inspired images as a wanderer in funny clothes, following his own serendipitous path -- not much intent on where he's headed. There's the sense of a vagabond, a drifter ... even a tramp in these traditional pictures. He's a person who answers to no one. He dreams his own dreams and obeys his own vision. His only real mission in life may be to stay alive and please himself.

What Kind of Fool
Assessing The Fool Card in the Tarot

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May 7, 2009
2:08 PM

The Evolution of a Fool
A Bridge from Past to Present
A Launching Point into the Future

Long ago in the medieval court, the Jester ... the Fool ... the Clown ... actually held an important, almost sacred place in the social fabric of the culture ... with one foot in the tricky terrain of political realities in feudal government and the other in an honest appraisal of and clear vision into what was really going on. He was, in many ways, the social commentator and comedian with immunity for his remarks and opinions. That immunity part was essential. He was the Bill Maher, the Dennis Miller, the Will Rogers of his time ... and the ancestor of them all.

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A Bridge from Past to Present
A Launching Point into the Future

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April 28, 2009
7:22 AM

The Tarot -- Not Always in Good Hands
Reflections from a Reader's Table

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Mary K. Greer There are probably as many ways to read Tarot cards as there are readers. And the lack of standards -- and consistency -- bothers me. In fact, the fact that this bothers me ... bothers me. I can't think of many other things in my life about which I feel such ambivalence -- and affection, all wrapped in a single issue.

There are as many ways to paint a picture or write a song as there are artists and composers. I've dabbled in both those fields, and yet I'm fine with that fact. I relish the creative variety. I wouldn't change the degree of freedom in those fields for anything. That's the essence of its magic.

But something about reading the Tarot is different. Maybe it's because credulous people rely on it sometimes for very important decisions and information ... and the potential for harm if a reader "gets it wrong" for whatever reason ... seems so high -- to me.

I'm not sure I would trust my serious health decisions to someone with no credentials to practice medicine, no body of work on display to show his competence, whose only virtues were his willingness to take my appointment -- and the recommendation of a friend of a friend of a friend to put me at his door in the first place.

The Tarot -- Not Always in Good Hands
Reflections from a Reader's Table

April 21, 2009
5:41 AM

The Tarot
No longer a dead-end street
Maybe never had to be -- Maybe never was

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Signe E. Echols, Robert Mueller, Sandra Thomson One of the best features of the Tarot as an occult tool is its versatility. It has many applications -- both time-honored and familiar ... and ones you discover or devise yourself. And the wonderful truth is ... they're all valid and useful -- if you create them carefully and then treat what you've fashioned, what you gain, and the wisdom of the Tarot itself with respect.

You can use the Tarot in a playful, light-hearted mood. You can use it for forecasting the probable future course on a topic of interest. You can use it for meditation and guided fantasy work. You can use it for journaling topics.

The Tarot -- No longer a dead-end street
Maybe never had to be -- Maybe never was

April 15, 2009
12:30 AM

The Tarot and the Nightly News

There was a segment on the news tonight about how in this recession -- and grossly uncertain economy -- psychics are doing a booming business. Interesting. And news to me. The several minutes of story showed a very well-fed fellow with a silly-looking mustache and goatee talking on a cell phone while supposedly "reading" the cards for someone on the other end. The table in front of him was covered with cards overlapping each other in an array like no layout I ever saw before. Frankly, the whole piece gave me the shivers.

The Tarot and the Nightly News

April 8, 2009
9:37 PM

The Art and Science of Tarot

The study of Tarot ... the use of Tarot as a tool for advice, reflection and self-examination ... is not so much science as art. Ok, even that statement needs more explanation to make it true. For a long time science and art were seen as separate. One dealt in logic, empirical proofs, experiments, hypotheses, hard data and firm conclusions. This was science; the analytical territory of the left brain. Science gained respect, standing, devotees ... and plenty of people willing to stake important valuables on its findings.

The Art and Science of Tarot

March 26, 2009
9:23 PM

The Good Leader
Meeting the Emperor in the Tarot

The Emperor is Key Number 4 in the Tarot's Major Arcana. It is associated with astrology sign Aries ... and with issues of authority, leadership and governance. There's a lot going on in The Emperor's world. He is more than a mere king ... he's a powerful sovereign with weighty and wide-ranging responsibilities. His actions and decisions matter to a lot of people, and, of course, the fate of his empire itself hangs on them. So the energy of The Emperor card carries healthy helpings of self-control, objectivity, far-sighted vision, even-handed fairness and political wisdom.

The Good Leader
Meeting the Emperor in the Tarot

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March 17, 2009
10:11 PM

The Tarot
One of Many Paths to Truth

Something that bothers me about the Tarot is that it seems so awash in passionate controversy ... and I'm not talking about the debate between those who find value in this wonderful occult instrument and those who see it as literally the left hand of the Devil. That kind of philosophical split I could handle. Either the cards are right for you or they aren't. I'm not out to persuade anyone who needs to be converted or convinced. That argument doesn't interest me. Life is too short to grapple for even thirty seconds on that kind of crusade. There are many paths to enlightenment and truth and the Tarot may or may not be part of any individual's path.

The Tarot
One of Many Paths to Truth

December 3, 2008
5:24 PM

Would I Go to a Tarot Reader?

Sometimes I am astonished at my own blindness. I hope the fact that I note this from time to time indicates wisdom and seasoning, maturity and experience ... and not that I can be dumber than your average rock. Years ago, on an airplane, I sat next to a woman who was a nurse in the heart transplant unit of a big hospital specializing in that surgery back when it was a lot more radical and rare than it is now.

Would I Go to a Tarot Reader?

November 26, 2008
3:40 AM

Roads Taken ... and Not Taken
Along the Mystic's Path ... and the Tarot Trail

Everything that is part of your life inevitably shapes your life. Tonight I find that an interesting statement. On the one hand, it sounds odd to admit -- or proclaim -- that even small, careless decisions can have surprising, far-reaching consequences. And yet, on the other hand, it's so obvious. Wonderful stories and great dramas have been composed around the amazing -- and sometimes tragic -- results that ripple out from a simple gesture ... or a careless moment.

The road taken creates experience and history. The road not taken seals itself shut behind you -- and yet its possibilities can shimmer for a lifetime in your dreams, your fantasies, the movies of your imagination ... its secrets as intriguing as unopened gifts and letters.

Roads Taken and Not Taken
Along the Mystic's Path ... and the Tarot Trail

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November 20, 2008
10:48 PM

The Defiant Ones
Reflections from a Reader's Table

This is almost always a man. He arrives at your table, sits down, leans back, folds his arms, and glares at you with anger and suspicion. Whether he's dressed in a business suit or casual clothes, he is also wrapped in a blend of contempt and wariness, flavored with a sad self-ridicule, all of it layered around him so thick you could probably feel the texture -- if he let you reach out to him and touch. If he let you get that close.

The Defiant Ones
Reflections from a Reader's Table

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