tarot

These days many people are unemployed. It seems like everyone is looking for a job. It also seems like jobs are few and far between, and the competition is stiff.

Why not use tarot to get the edge you need? There are many tarot cards that can help you get a new job or a promotion. There are also cards that can help you be more articulate in an interview or can help you stick in the mind of the interviewer long after the interview is over.

You may meditate with these cards, or keep them on your altar. You may print out these images and hang them on your wall.

There are numerous ways it can happen that you are not reading with a full deck. Sometimes it is completely accidental. It’s happen a couple of times over the past twenty years that I’ve gone through a day of readings and discovered that, at some point, a card has fallen to the floor unnoticed. Since the readings all went well I didn’t worry about it, figuring the gods of tarot wanted it that way. I picked up the card and shuffled it back in.

I know a number of readers who refuse to read for children. Some readers simply don’t enjoy reading for younger people. Others may feel that younger people have no need of what tarot can provide, or aren’t mature enough to process the information. Still others may worry that parents might not approve.

I really enjoy reading for children. In my own practice I have no ethical concerns in regards to offering readings to young people. I do find that reading for young people requires a certain skillset and specific ways of interpreting the cards.

Today is April Fool's Day. We in the tarot community have begun claiming this as a special day for tarotists, because the Fool, Major Arcana Card 0, is such an important part of tarot understanding.

To honor the Fool on this day I will make a list of some things I know about the Fool.

Please feel free to add to this list in the comments below.

There is a trend in tarot to include a seventy-ninth card in the deck. No, I'm not talking about the Happy Squirrel (a Simpsons reference). I'm talking about the "Unknown Card," or the "Blank Card."

The concept of a blank token in divination is not a new practice. Many Rune sets include the Blank Rune. Most seventy-eight card tarot decks include two extra cards that often bear publishing information, or information about the deck. These two extra cards exist simply because it is easier to print eighty cards than seventy-eight.