Kosmic Egg Tarot

I've been reading Tarot Cards since I was 15 or 16 years old. Today I got the greatest complement ever from a querant, "You're the only reader I know who sees a reading at both a microscopic and a macroscopic level." What he meant was that when I look at cards, I look at each card individually, but then I look also at all of the cards in relationship to each other, and to the whole in answer to a question. I believe my ability to do this is part of my art, but also it is my belief in the containment of a reading.

I am not a reader who will pull card after card after card to try to get a querant to feel that the question has been fully explored. What you see is what you get. The number of cards for a spread is kept to the number of cards to a spread and we will fully explore the reading at hand. The exception I am willing to make is to pull two further cards only if the last card is not a Major Arcana Card. The reason for this is to only get to the possibility of the next major jump a client is likely to make, but if the next Major Arcana card is not within those two cards, then I tell the client the truth -- there are a lot of habits that have to change before you'll have closure on this issue.

I believe Tarot is a system of training to understand the cosmological meaning of our world. If you work with Tarot long enough you begin to see the pattern of life in which we live. It is possible to see symbolic meaning in our own life, but only if we are willing to look past the literal, obtuse and obvious. Tarot is a first step.

Every Tarot Reading should feel more familiar than surprising. One should recognize immediately the unfolding story as her or his own. Occasionally this doesn't happen, but it is not often. Most of the time when I read cards for someone there are tears of recognition. That feels good to all of us -- being recognized. Once we know we've been seen then it makes it easier to get to the next steps without feeling so very much alone. Tarot is a tender experience, though often also intellectually exciting.

In this blog I hope to share some of my philosophy and creativity in Tarot. I hope you'll enjoy exploring symbolism and cosmology with me.