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The Omen Days: The Twelve Days of Christmas
Christmas Eve has come and now I can truly rest. Every year we try to have the Twelve Days of Christmas as a complete holiday, though a copy editor came near to spoiling that this afternoon by giving...
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Plough Monday
Plough Monday is the first Monday after Epiphany, traditionally the day that agricultural labourers returned to the land after the festivities of the Twelve Days of Christmas. They knew that unless...
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CHOOSING A LENORMAND DECK by Caitlín Matthews
WHICH DECK? What is the best kind of deck to learn from? There are so many on the market that it’s easy to become overwhelmed by the choice: painted, photoshopped, photographic, thematic, traditional...
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In the Future, You Will Be Raped by Brigands! or How Not To Interpret For...
‘In the future, you will be raped by brigands!’ is probably the worst line ever to fall from the lips of a cartomancer into his client’s ears. These deathless words make us wonder what was the...
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THE CARTOMANTIC MINDSET 1: Pre-Esoteric Cards
Why and how Lenormand Reading is differentfrom modern methods of Tarot Reading If you are familiar with Tarot and are wanting to approach Lenormand for the first time, then this might be a helpful...
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THE CARTOMANTIC MINDSET 2: Differences Between Tarot and Lenormand
10 Stones from The Wildwood Tarot and 10 Clubs/Bear from Daveluy LenormandFirst of all let’s look at the most obvious differences between Tarot and Lenormand, so that we can get a sense of what we are...
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THE CARTOMANTIC MINDSET 3: What Actually Happens When We Read Tarot?
Of course, there are as many ways of reading oracle and divination cards as skinning a cat. Every new deck published brings its own methods and spreads but most cards are being read today...
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CARTOMANTIC MINDSET 4. LENORMAND BY JUXTAPOSITION AND COMBINING
THE BIG PICTUREAlfred Russo's The Card ReaderThe cartomantic mindset reads simply by juxtaposition and combining, seeing the overview through the medium of a tableau. Here is Alfred Russo’s painting...
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THE CARTOMANTIC MINDSET 5: TOUCHING CARDS & LAYERS OF READING
Piatnik LenormandI stated in the previous blogs of this Cartomantic Mindset series that we read Lenormand by juxtaposition and that positions...
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TENDING THE HEARTH: HOUSE AND LAND CLEARING IN MODERN IRISH PRACTICE A guest...
This guest blog by bean feasa, Cáit Branigan, explores what it means to maintain and clear the environment where we live and work from a traditional Irish perspective. How residues, intrusions,...
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CARTOMANTIC MINDSET 6. ARE YOU CARTOMANTICALLY MINDED? A SUMMARY & A SURPRISE
A LONG CARTOMANTIC HERITAGEIf you have read to the end of this series of posts about the differences that are entailed in reading cartomantically, you may have many questions and impressions. You may...
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The Mothers of Change - guest blog by Anastacia J. Nutt
THE MOTHERS OF CHANGE by Anastacia J. NuttThis year's guest blog by Anastacia J. Nutt examines the nature of the changes which our world is facing and opens a powerful way of undergoing these times...
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The Zone of Sophia: a prayer form for difficult times
Over the last thirty years, I’ve practised a prayer-form that I first received in a dream. I’ve used different forms of it over the years, but the core of it remains the same. Within the dream, I was...
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FRAGMENTS OF FORMER WORLDS – BEING A MUSEUM OF FUTURE MEMORY.
‘In a case in the Natural History Museum lie the sparse remains of shooting stars that have embedded in the earth, solemnly labelled “fragments of former worlds,”’ reported by Jacquetta Hawkes in her...
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CARTOMANTIC ENCHANTMENT two reviews by Caitlín Matthews
Marseilles Tarot: Towards the Art of Reading by Camelia Elias (978-87-92633-42-3) Eyecorner Press, 2015Marseilles Tarot & The Oracle Travels Light by Camelia EliasCamelia Elias is an expert...
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The Love of the Goddess and the Worship of the Gods by Caitlín Matthews
This talk was given for the 40th Anniversary the Founding of the Fellowship of Isis in March 2016ORPHANED OF THE GODDESSThe Ever Living Lady by Danuta Meyerfrom The Celtic Book of the Dead by Caitlín...
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Amplifying the Story: Moving Things On When All It’s Saying is ‘Ground Hog Day.’
How many times have you laid cards for a client, only to find that they are speaking just about the situation the person is currently undergoing? This restatement of what is happening is...
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ARTHURIAN DREAMING
This new year guest blog is written by John Matthews who is stepping in to speak about his long love of the Arthurian legend, and to introduce his new novel sequence, Red Dragon Rising....
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BRINGING HOME THE BABY: MARVELLOUS MINCHIATE IN ACTION
MARVELLOUS MINCHIATEReading with a Minchiate Deck is not something many tarot readers frequently get to do, but I have a collection of them, and I so love this 1655 Francois de Poilly Minchiate, also...
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DRAWING WATER FROM THE DEEP WELL: The Art of Natural Prayer
Over the last thirty years, I've invited all my shamanic students to include prayer in their lives, regardless of whatever tradition they follow. Why do I feel this important? When we learn about...
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RESTORING OUR SACRED IMAGES TO THE WORLD
‘Behind your hand there must be present thousands of powers that move it. These mysterious things that are inside us and which want to find expression are not all ours but also of those who preceded us...
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THE ART OF TAROT TABLEAU READING
THE ART OF TAROT TABLEAU READINGMy new book Untold Tarot: The Lost Art of Reading Ancient Tarots is released on 28 September 2018. Here, I look at the older cartomantic ways of reading tarot, with a...
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GIANTS & TROJANS: Brutus and the Mythic Founders of Britain at Hawkwood...
AN OPEN MYSTERY SCHOOLBrutus Crowned by Charles Newington from his Frieze of the Brutus MythOver the last 34 years John Matthews and myself have led a weekend course in December at Hawkwood College,...
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WALKING THE ANCESTRAL ROAD: Healing Family Lines by Caitlín Matthews
‘I felt the presence of an ancestor…I asked him what he had to teach me and he replied, ‘I’ve not come to teach you. You came all the way to this country to do what you could do at home, with your own...
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THE CELTIC BOOK OF THE DEAD – A NEW IMMRAM By Caitlín Matthews
30 years ago I wrote the first edition of The Celtic Book of the Dead with Eddison Books, now in January 2023, a new edition is released: apart from the translation of the Voyage of Maelduin text, it...
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