Last weekend I was at the Detroit Area Tarot Intensive, where I presented along with Dan Pelletier, co-owner of the Tarot Garden and knower-of-many-fascinating-things. When attending conferences, one expects to learn a lot during the actual classes or workshops. But sometimes things are learned at other times, like while sharing a meal. Dan taught us a nifty little technique over dinner one evening. He didn't have a name for it; he just did it. Here's how it played: Dan asked someone to ask a question, then pick a card from the deck he had fanned out. The card was left face down. Dan then answered the question without looking at the card. Then he had the person flip the card

The definition of a tarot deck varies quite a bit from person to person. The bare bones definition is a deck of 78 cards: 22 majors and 56 minors (of four suits, ace - 10, and four courts per suit). There have been, historically, deviations. An example is a Minchiate deck, which has 40 majors, plus the Fool. Modern deck designers have played with this structure as well, sometimes adding a few cards to the majors or adding a court to the minors, or even an entire fifth suit. Some would argue these are not tarot decks. In addition, there are decks that follow what I call the bare bones structure but deviate wildly from the familiar Golden Dawn (Thoth and Rider Waite) images and

Did you know that the Pagan Cats Tarot is now available as a mini-deck? Now you can keep 78 cats in your bag and handy all the time. Get your own HERE.

A few weeks ago, I was honored to be one of the speakers at the annual Tarosophy Tarot Conference in Keswick, England. Here is a photo of the speakers: The third woman from the right, with the long blond hair, is Kim Huggens, author of Tarot 101 (a really fine book!). You can learn more about that HERE. I really enjoyed her workshop, which focused on using the cards not to find answers but to create questions that lead the querent to the wisdom within their own heart. It was fun and enlightening to use the cards in this way with other readers. When I thought about my clients, though, I couldn't see them going for it. But I loved the concept, so how could I tweak it become a