If you are reading this, I assume you are a tarot reader or at least a tarot enthusiast. (Or perhaps you were lured in by my clever title for this entry.) If you are a tarotist, do you use only tarot cards? I suppose we could take that further…do you use only one deck? If so, which one and why? But actually, what I really want to know is if you use other divination tools. I have played with oracles and like them just fine every now and again. Mostly I like them as an accessory for a tarot reading. My collection of pendulums is frighteningly large, and yet I never have felt comfortable actually using them. Crystal balls (I have a small one), a scrying mirrors, and gazing bowls enchant

We all know that you can use tarot for readings. But did you know that you can use tarot for writing? You can! Corrine Kenner wrote all about it in Tarot for Writers. It is a perfectly logical extension of the traditional use of cards for readings. What is a reading, after all, but a story we tell about the possible future? Even if we don’t read predictively and prefer to use the cards for advice, we are still playing out possible plot lines. Corrine teaches us how to use the tarot as a tool for character creation, plot development, and setting. In addition, she gives great ideas for using tarot for blowing away writer’s block. For each card, Corrine gives fun writing prompts, that can

Shall we get right into it? How do you feel about reversals? Do you read them? If so, how? Do you have seventy-eight other interpretations that you use? Do you have a system that you apply to or a modification for the upright meanings? Do you not use them? Why? What do you do when one comes up upside down? Because no matter how careful you are, they somehow manage to get mixed up all the time. It seems that people have fairly strong opinions about reversals. Years ago, when the American Tarot Association used to certify readers, I went through the certification process. That process included creating and using your own reversed meanings. I did so, of course, because I used to be an

Congratulations to Rebecca, the lucky winner of possibly the very last vintage 2002 Llewellyn Tarot Calendar! We received a number of great tips last week for the contest. Check out the comments here. Being an artsy-craftsy type of girl, I liked Arwen's suggestion of using old, worn out decks in art journaling. I do make photocopies of cards to use in my art journals, but using the actual cards would add texture and layers, which I really like in a journal. ML Hardin gave a fantastic idea about using old cigar boxes. She includes small journals in the box that she keeps for each deck. Again, the glue-stick-and-paint lover in me is all over that idea. How about decorating the boxes to