I woke on my fifty-eighth birthday with Queensrÿche's Silent Lucidity playing in my head. By the time the tarot cards were on the table, the song had become an instruction for crossing the threshold between understanding and embodiment.
Yesterday, on a Wisdom Walk, I realised I had been spending my attention in three directions at once. Part of me had gone backwards, picking over old choices and wishing I had chosen differently. Part had gone forwards, trying to get ahead of outcomes I cannot know. The rest kept looking for a side door...
I’m back inside Tarot of Self-Discovery: A Jungian Guide to Tarot for Therapy, Inner Healing, and Personal Growth, and I can feel why the psychological approach to tarot keeps calling me. It gives me a language I trust. Tarot, in this frame, is not about predicting the future or handing my authority over to a...
Saturday. Kessingland. A camping field on a sea cliff; the morning is already bright by the time I properly arrive in it. I wanted to watch the sunrise. That was the plan in the loose way plans form when you sleep outdoors and imagine yourself becoming more elemental by morning. But the field gave me...
A working note on Ruth Netzer, tarot as active imagination, and the Jungian Quest for the Self as a spiral of symbolic integration rather than a simple heroic journey.
A collection of usable elements from my future personal tarot deck.
For my ruleset to generate an aesthetic outcome, I drew from a class I took last year, Alison Parrish’s Electronic Rituals. Using Tarot…
You can find the final product with some simple instructions to spin it up on my github.