The Six of Wands The Six of Wands is a design Pamela Colman Smith used from her earlier depiction of “The Silent Knight”, in her own short-lived magazine, The Green Sheaf, December 1903, just six years before her work on the Waite-Smith Tarot. In Secrets of the Waite Smith Tarot (2015) we reveal the research based on
HOW TO TELL FORTUNES BY THE GOLDEN WHEEL. Taken from A. E. Waite (writing as “The Grand Orient”), A Handbook of Cartomancy (London: George Redway, 1891). The person whose fortune is to be told, must place the wheel ofFortune face downward, prick into a number (it is better to do it withtheir eyes shut), then
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By Our Work we are Changed For those wishing to pursue their own interest in the Work we refer to as the Western Esoteric Initiatory System (WEIS) there are several gates to enter this Way. Our most widely-known gate is through Tarot, which we see as the illustration of the challenges, lessons and processes of
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Our Free Video Series on the Golden Dawn method of tarot reading called The Opening of the Key. This course is provided on Youtube as the following videos: https://youtu.be/hlAAy1xtOgc https://youtu.be/E2XM9ouf5Eo https://youtu.be/UV_XPWzKGa4 https://youtu.be/WEWuGL7xcyU https://youtu.be/64POvbX-ZXM https://youtu.be/PbWglT7GUZQ https://youtu.be/MFm-Zd9qidE https://youtu.be/m7jCuhUBRPA https://youtu.be/UvQrEFnJX6Q https://youtu.be/cDeTkfzFvAo https://youtu.be/ZGLoW_4mUG4 The Soundfile in the first class can be heard here: And the FREE PDF handout for
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Welcome to our recommended Top 10 Reading List for Diviners, this Summer of 2019. This year we have taken the theme of “psychology and inner worlds” in its most general sense and selected 10 books which are not about tarot but are very much about what happens in tarot. We are not all therapists nor
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Our recent series on Instagram provided ten verses based on a simple description of each Minor Card. The verses are in order of the Tens to the Aces, each describing the four cards of that number in order of Pentacles, Swords, Cups and Wands. TENS It ends … A house, an execution, a bow, a
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0. Aim in All Things to Restore the Spiritual Dignity of Tarot Remember then, from the very beginning, that this is our spiritual journey. This will never be any different, from the beginning to the end. Extended Commentary We see the tarot as the language of initiation into the Western Esoteric Initiatory System. The
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I. Remember that Tarot Starts and Ends from Within Welcome to the first easy lesson for our FREE 21-day course in Tarot – ideal for beginners. Off we go – straight to it! The Tarot is a Tool. It provides a means for divination and the oracular state. Every person who reads Tarot will have
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Dignities One way of discovering incredible background information in a reading is by using a basic knowledge of elemental dignities in your tarot. The idea of dignities in card-reading comes from early cartomancy through the Golden Dawn, who established certain rules for reading these interactions between cards. However, the whole idea originates in astrology, where
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Tarot Copyright and Trademark Will I be sued if I share a tarot card image on Instagram? How many tarot cards can I put in my blog article? Do I have to pay if I take a picture of my tarot card spread in a paid tarot reading? What can I do if someone steals
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