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No Time Like The First Time (University Books RWS)
OK, Betty’s talking about sex. But I want you to do this for me if you will: think back…to your very… first…DECK. Mine was a University Books RWS, a lonnnnng time ago. I had it for about 10 years,...
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Frankie Albano, please call home
(Disclaimer: the title of this post is intended to be tongue-in-cheek, and is not an actual plea. ) One of the most fascinating mysteries of the Tarot world is “What ever happened to Frankie Albano?”...
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Le Tarot Astrologique
Imagine, if you will, a deck published by Grimaud sometime between the late 1800’s and 1917 or so, very roughly coinciding with the Belle Époque. Imagine the strange old art, the fantastic vibe. Now...
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I hate oracle decks (but not the Literary Witches)
It was the face on the box that caught my eye as I was browsing. I thought it was Charlotte Brontë. And there were wolves and hands and trailing vines…I had to find out what this was. As it turns out,...
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A 2020 election reading
This is a reading I did on facebook recently, on the fly. I will quote it here as is, neither adding to it nor editing: “September 16 at 1:42 AM It’s early yet, but I’ve done early pulls on elections...
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Killing the Glad Girl
There is a scene early in the film Red Dust where Clark Gable goes to toss a drunk worker at his rubber plantation into bed, and discovers that Jean Harlow has taken up residence there. She kicks the...
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Where to go?
OK, the picture doesn’t really express exactly what this is about. It’s Robert Johnson at the Crossroads, the place where all that stuff you labored at finally falls into place and you become badass....
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The Grand Jeu, An Introduction
Don’t look away… Years ago, when I started blogging here, some of my first posts were on the Grand Jeu. I shared what I knew and tried to figure out the rest. In time I moved on and wrote about other...
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The Impact of Pirated Decks
I’m featuring a little of Ciro Marchetti’s work* in the photo above because there won’t be any more new decks. Ciro has announced publicly that he won’t be doing any more. Shoddy pirated copies of his...
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Thomson Leng, where have you been all my life?
The question is rhetorical, of course. The Thomson Leng Tarot has been around since 1935. The art is very 1930’s. And while the RWS is theatrical (some of the scenes are actually taking place on a...
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