Lyndall Talks Tarot

Traditionally angels only figure in six of the Major Arcana cards.  Shining Angels Tarot @Lo Scarabeo Raphael resides over the Lovers, Temperance is often the angel juggling the waters of emotion. The Devil is either Lucifer or Pan. Judgement has an angel dominating the landscape  And four archangels marking the four directions are in the Wheel of Fortune and The World. The Shining Angels Tarot by Giudetta Dembech and Artwork by Federico Pence is a deck designed to further educate us as readers to the extent of the angelic world and their role in magic, Qabala, healing, meditation and the spirit of our lives.  This is what we want from a new Tarot deck, we want to be educated; for the new deck to take us into areas we don't know about. This is a deck I would be inclined to work with for myself; I may add it to healing work I was doing with clients.  In the Shining Angels  Tarot, Raphael moves away from the Lovers leaving them to Haniel...

HERBAL TAROT @Michael Tierra and Candis Cantin Health is an area we are often asked to read on and one I find particularly sensitive. If my client is concerned on health issues I make sure our questions that we are seeking are very precise. I find it much more advantageous to both the reader and the client to work from the perspective of how they can input into healing themselves. So for example if I am asked how is  my operation going to turn out? I prefer to work with the question. What do I need to do to make my operation successful? Or my steps in preparing for my operation and/or recovery. I do this because I don't think it is particularly useful to the client's state of mind if a card like the Death card turns up on their operation. Yes we as readers know that this doesn't literally mean death but if we are working with novices the thing they will leave with is the Death card on their operation. Did this assist? No. Now difficult cards can still turn up if we r...

One of the most extensive tarot programs ever written would have to be The Hallowquest: The Arthurian Tarot Course written by Caitlin and John Mathews. Written in four parts this study although designed to run through the course of the seasons has so much depth I have repeated many of the seasons more than once. Part 1. The Arthurian Tarot The Arthurian Tarot @Caitlin & John Mathews Doorways in time and space. The Arthurian World The Hallows in Celto-Arthurian Tradition.   Part 2.: Preparing for the Quest. Lessons 1-5 Part 3: The Quest for the Hallows Spring:    The Quest for Sword Lesson 6-17 Summer: The Quest for Spear. Lessons 18-30 Autumn: The Quest for the Grail. Lessons 31-43 Winter:   The Quest for the Stone. Lessons 44-56 Part 4: The Way of the Hallows. Lessons 57-63. In this work there are gems of reading lay outs,  Gems of self questioning and self searching Pearls of Arthurian wisdom. The student is ...

Dreams of Gaia @ Ravynne Phelan 2016 DECK OF THE YEAR DREAMS OF GAIA. AN AUSTRALIAN DECK BY RAVYNNE  PHELAN. Dreams of Gaia Tarot @Ravynne Phelan Quietly and with barely a murmur Ravynne Phelan's tarot for a new era has won Tarot Deck of the Year 2016 awarded by the Tarosophy Tarot Association, access by membership, based online and created by Marcus Katz and Tali Goodwin. An Australian publisher in Blue Angel based in Melbourne produced the deck. I am so excited by this award. To be able to compete with the likes of tarot producers such as Lo Scarebeo of Turin and Llewellyn of USA is a huge feat from a small publisher in Australia. Now we have acknowledged the formalities: what about Ravynne Phelan. Her story is a fantastic tale of knowing where her heart lay and being thwarted by others who can't believe in her dream to returning to the calling and producing wondrous material culminating in this fantastic tarot deck. The book written by Ravynne Phel...

Sacred Rose Tarot @Johanna Sherman Sacred Rose Tarot @Johanna Sherman Its hard to imagine how an artist would set out to create a tarot deck. There are 22 major cards and 56 minor cards in a tarot deck. That's a huge amount of illustration. How long does that take? Add to the mix whether the artist knows the Tarot or is new to the concepts of the Tarot gives us further time frames. The decks are always a reflection of the artists background of their work and their knowledge. I  remember using the Scared Rose  deck (1987) as my meditation deck. I never read it for anyone but I always meditated with this deck. I found it was an amazing deck to channel information.  When I researched  the artist of this deck, Johanna Sherman I read how she was a meditator. This  deck for her had been an awakening of her own psychic abilities and at the time I was using it for the same thing myself.and at the time I was using it for the same thing myself. (interview Aecle...

THE WILD WOOD TAROT. WHEREIN WISDOM RESIDES. by Mark Ryan  and John Mathews And my most favourite illustrator ever- Will Worthington.  This deck feels so sacred it makes me want to whisper. I feel like donning my magical cloak and slipping quietly into the forest to begin my solace and retreat until some time later I reemerge a wizened soul.  Cover of book Wildwood Tarot. This Tarot creates its own paradigm. It doesn't exist in the tradition of tarot, this is a tarot created by a child who's playground was the famous Sherwood Forest, where animal, bird and man lived in a dance of survival and spirit. The characters of this deck are an intermingle of these three realms and depending on what time of the year we are in Arrows (air), Bows (fire) Vessels (water) or Stones (earth);Wildwoods suits for the minor arcana, sets the theme of the lessons we are learning. So like the HALLOWQUEST, also created by John Mathews partnered with Caitlin Mathews; this ca...

Spells, prayers and affirmations are all a part of the same concepts. If we pray we are asking what we believe is a greater power to help us to carry out our wishes either for ourselves and others. This technique gives our power over to a greater deity be it religious or angelic or a goddess. Affirmations uses empowered words to reprogram our own thinking into a stronger resolve or into releasing negative programs that keep tripping us up.  Spells are also empowering us through verse and objects to relay to our inner self and calling upon the external powers be they angelic, a goddess or god to assist us to create the changes. All of these techniques are ways of communicating with the inner self bringing to consciousness aspects of the unconscious patterning or the psyche to  create change.   So how can Tarot assist? Modern Spellccaster;s Tarot @Marquis &Murphy Modern Spellcaster's Tarot @Marquis & Murphy Using particular Tarot ...