Category Archives: Tarot

Elemental Dignities in Tarot Readings

Posted on January 8, 2022 by Anthony Louis

Recently someone asked about the use of elemental dignities in tarot, a topic which I addressed extensively in my book Tarot Beyond the Basics. This blog is a brief overview of the topic. The basic idea comes from the teachings … Continue reading →

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Tarot and Racism

Posted on March 20, 2021 by Anthony Louis

Traditional tarot decks tends to have white European characters depicted on their cards. Only recently have decks appeared which attempt to depict scenes with a more diverse set of personages. This is a welcome trend since we live in a … Continue reading →

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The Moon and the Two of Swords in Tarot

Posted on February 8, 2021 by Anthony Louis

The Moon appears on several cards in the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck, which is based on astrological associations with the tarot in the teachings of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. One such card is the Two of Swords. A.E. … Continue reading →

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A ‘thank you’ to the readers of my books

Posted on February 5, 2021 by Anthony Louis

Every once in a while I check how my books are doing on Amazon.com. This morning I was searching for a book and happened to take a look at my most recent tarot book (2016) published by Llewellyn in the … Continue reading →

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Tarot suits and social class

Posted on January 17, 2021 by Anthony Louis

Our modern tarot deck appears to have its origins in a playing card deck used by the Mameluk Egyptians and brought into Europe after the Muslim forces invaded and conquered the Iberian peninsula. Muslim soldiers used these cards to play a … Continue reading →

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A Pleasant Surprise

Posted on February 5, 2020 by Anthony Louis

On 4 February 2020 I received a surprise in the mail. Llewellyn Publishers sent me copies of my book Tarot Plain and Simple translated into Russian. Here is a photo. In my natal chart, transiting Moon was exactly conjunct my … Continue reading →

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The Péladan Spread with Ordinary Playing Cards

Posted on November 19, 2019 by Anthony Louis

Recently I’ve been experimenting with divination using standard playing cards to see how they differ from a Tarot deck. To keep matters simple, I decided to employ the classic 5-card spread of Péladan in which the cards are laid out … Continue reading →

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The 5-card tarot spread of Péladan

Posted on March 31, 2019 by Anthony Louis

Recently I’ve been looking through the tarot literature in Spanish and Portuguese, and I came across a popular spread which gets little press in the English literature.  It’s a fairly simple 5-card spread in the shape of a cross, often … Continue reading →

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Foreign Language Editions

Posted on March 23, 2019 by Anthony Louis

Recently I received a copy of one of my tarot books that had been translated into Japanese.  The book is quite beautiful, but unfortunately I don’t read Japanese.     I also noticed that the Spanish edition of my first … Continue reading →

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An interesting 3-card tarot reading

Posted on November 3, 2017 by Anthony Louis

The following reading, which illustrates the usefulness of astrological associations in tarot, was done using the Llewellyn Classic Tarot deck.  The querent is a high school senior who asked for a general reading about what issues were currently most important … Continue reading →

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