I know that tarot web oldtimers will be thrilled to hear that Diane Wilkes’ website, Tarot Passages, has been resurrected by Diane, with new deck and book reviews, links and a monthly spread. Those who haven’t been there before—do yourself a treat and check out all the great resources.
The site was originally started in the mid-1990s by Michele Jackson as Michele’s Tarot Page and then expanded when Diane Wilkes took over and it became Tarot Passages. For many years it was “the source” for what was happening in tarot—on the web, in publishing and through conferences. Diane also created the concept for The Jane Austen Tarot (Lo Scarabeo) and wrote the book – a real tour-de-force of Austen research, involving all the favorite books and characters.
Welcome back, Diane! We’ve missed you.
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July 9, 2009 at 5:04 pm
Flavio
That’s terrific news! thank you for sharing it.
PS: in my Tarot group last night we did your 3 card drawing exercise, we really enjoyed and learned a lot, thank you.
July 9, 2009 at 6:36 pm
mkg
Flavio – Would love to hear more about what you learned from doing the Three-Card Drawing Exercise.
Mary
July 9, 2009 at 7:01 pm
Josephine
excellent news!! Thanks for sharing and I will bookmark the resurrected Tarot Passages site today! My card for today was Judgement. Guess I’m not the only one experiencing renewal!
July 9, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Andalusia
My friend has the Jane Austen Tarot deck & it has the most interesting Devil card ever! Next to the Housewives Tarot, of course. 😛
July 11, 2009 at 9:40 am
Flavio
Dear Mary:
Here is a summary of what we learned with the Three-Card Drawing Exercise:
– Personal resources, challenges, and future actions are easily ackowledged.
– Most people felt unable to draw human shapes so their drawings focused more on objects belonging to them, for example Death’s banner, King’s crowns or Fool’s bag. People with relationship questions also avoided drawing humans.
– Even the people who declared themselves unable to draw anything benefited from the analysis of the drawing distribution (left=past, up=superconscious etc)
– In traditional reading one makes a conscious effort to give priority to messages coming from Major Arcana, in the drawing many cases showed the Minor Arcana as the main theme or character.
– Some people ackowledged the number of objects or characters in the drawing had a connection with the pips lessons, for example a drawing about a relationship in crisis showed 5 main elements/characters.
Hope you find this comments useful, thank you very much for this exercise and your contibutions to Tarot learning Mary.
July 11, 2009 at 11:00 am
Jennifer ShadowFox
Wonderful news – thank you so much for sharing that!
July 14, 2009 at 12:24 pm
mkg
Flavio – Thank you for the fascinating description of how you did the 3-card Drawing Exercise. I, too, have trouble drawing human figures so I recommend drawing simple stick figures in a light flesh-colored crayon and later “clothing” them with hair, robes and objects like you mention. It’s much easier that way.
I’ve found that even “abstract” drawings and scribbles are full of meaning if based on the cards.
I agree that both Major and Minor Arcana cards are equally significant. I’ll have to watch out for the number significance as you described – thanks for the hint!
Mary