At last there is more light every day, and life is waking up again. I have been working hard in London getting Butterfly Tarot in its new home.

Butterfly Tarot moves in

It has taken far, far longer than I could have ever imagined, but the unit at Camden Market opened on the first two days of March. Beryl and I took turns throughout the day as we still had the stall open.

You would think that an area only 9 by 10 feet would not require much work, but you have to take into account the spiritual aspects. This is the third place I have turned into a tarot booth, but the first two were created when I was with my teacher Punditt Maharaj, and it is now painfully evident how much he protected me from danger.

There were a number of delays getting the project underway, then we had the fire in the market next door. Clearing out and renovating the unit became as much a painful physical process for myself. I am not talking about the shock of going from sedentary work to picking up a hammer and saw. There were periods of intense purification that are still going on. Before I sound too much like a martyr, it is worth mentioning that I have been doing clearing work for years.

The amount of dirt, filth, negativity and inertia in that small unit was surprising, especially considering that Beryl and I have been clearing the market for well over a year. The unit is in a corner of the market that has been depressed for years. The previous tenant had fallen out with the management, and the units were only opening on the weekend, when they should have been opening for at least five or six days a week.

I am sure you have seen guides to setting up a tarot business. Here is the reality. Tarot businesses often end up where they are because no other business is feasible or profitable. It can be the location, but it can also be the spiritual problems associated with that place. Having said that, market traders generally like having a fortune teller there because it is a service, not selling products.

Before I sound too much like a whinger, I learned an incredible amount of spiritual knowledge at the same time. Practicality always wins over theory.

Space clearing is something like Feng Shui – I actually work with a Feng Shui expert on clearing energies on a regular basis. It is very difficult to describe what happens during a space clearing, as it happens as much internally as externally. There can be many layers that have to be removed, while changing energy in one place can change things elsewhere – it is like a multidimensional game of chess, and very often you are one of the chess pieces!

The power of the Thoth tarot is it’s ability to be perceived in so many ways, and here is a good example:

Kashmir Tarot Decks

The Kashmir Tarot serigraphs, a hand-silkscreened Limited Edition Major Arcana deck, was a special project by artist Nicolaas van Beek of the Netherlands that was completed in 1984. Since that time, it has become a collector’s item around the world.

You can see Nicolaas van Beek’s works of art , with a section on the Kashmir Tarot, and also a special page on the Kashmir Tarot.

The Devas of Creation Exhibition

I always have great chats with Cilla Conway on the tarot whenever we meet at various events. She is very knowledgeable, so I am very pleased to let you know about her latest project. I am rather suspicious of the anthopromorphism of deities and angels, so it is great to see www.devasofcreation.com. The artwork looks stunning on the site, so to see them in flesh as it were is an opportunity not to be missed.

About the Devas of Creation:/

The images were painted between 2002 and 2005, after a conversation at a talk on angels, where I wondered why there were no angel decks which depicted angels as the incredibly vibrant, enormously powerful beings I intuited them to be. I said idly,’Maybe I should paint them’. The speaker looked at me. ‘Go for it’, he said. I began the next morning.

The concept kept expanding until, three years and seventy-two images later, the Devas were complete – insofar as anything that aims to depict a holographic epresentation of Divinity and the whole of creation can be complete! (For the full set of images, see www.devasofcreation.com/cards.htm).

The paintings were mostly produced on A4 paper or cardboard and printed as a deck of 125mm x 90mm cards, but over the years many people have suggested they would love to see an exhibition of large versions of the Devas. The exhibition at Lotus Lounge begins that process, with fifteen large signed, limited edition prints showing the Divine and Angelic energies of the Devas of Creation.

You are invited to the private view:
*4pm – 6pm, Saturday 8th March*
The Lotus Lounge
Unit 1, Heritage Courtyard, Sadler Street
Wells

Between 12-3pm, Lotus Lounge is launching their juice bar – so if you get there early, treat yourself to a juice.

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Once again, I have been surprised at how much is going on out there. Thanks to Alison who keeps on ferreting out events that are going on. If you want yours included, email me.