At last, the 2nd edition of The Tarot and the Magus is in print. I picked up some copies from my publisher… and they look great. A new cover that will not pick up fingerprints. If you pre-ordered from Aeon, apparently your copy has been sent out.
Apologies for the long wait. It seems that Aeon are using a new printer, which contributed to the delay. Hopefully amazon.com will be stocking it very soon for the USA.
I will be in Birmingham at the TABI Conference on 24th to 25th July. My workshop is on the sunday, so I will be available for tarot readings on Saturday afternoon.
My visits to Birmingham are very rare, so here is a great opportunity! Email or reply to arrange an appointment.
Catherine Chapman has done a brilliant job of demonstrating the tarot techniques of elemental dignities and card counting as first she reads using the Celtic Cross spread, and then the same cards in a string. These techniques form the basis of our book, Beyond the Celtic Cross.
Listening to the radio show I am very impressed with how well Catherine does in demonstrating such a visual medium on the radio.
You can see the tarot spread here. There are lots of good psychological insights demonstrating how tarot is more than fortune telling.
That pigeon was nowhere to be seen at the England v Slovenia game last night. England played better, as we would have expected. I wondered if the USA might suffer at the hands of Algeria, but at the last gasp the USA scored a goal which edged out Slovenia, and ensured they qualified at the top of the table with England. Clearly black magic does not work as Algeria finished bottom without scoring a goal.
As soon as I saw the pigeon sitting on the Algerian goal I knew what was going on – England were going to lose, and lose badly
That pigeon signified black magic mixed with arrogance, and it became clear that there were multiple levels of magical activity. Spirits to ensure the referee was biased to Algeria, boosts to the level of competence of the Algerians, a huge block in front of the Algerian goal, and spirits assigned to every England player.
Paradoxically, the commentator gave it away when he said about ‘the lack of spirit’. In practice before the game, England were totally different. Fortunately, the magicians did not have it all their own way – Algeria did not score, and there were individual examples of Algerian vulnerability and lack of fitness towards the end.
Remember France’s abysmal performance in this World Cup? France still has a massive amount of influence in Algeria – they were colonial rulers, so I would not be surprised if a similar thing was happening.
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I have just listened to my co-author Catherine Chapman being interviewed on the Storm Cestavani Show. The musical intro is very long, so stay with it…
I uploaded a YouTube video — Princess of Wands tarot card http://youtu.be/3kqRRgJUqT4?a
I uploaded a YouTube video — Meaning of the Princess of Disks Thoth Tarot card
A couple of years ago during the political conference season in Brighton, Radio 5live asked me to read a few palms at the Liberal Democrat Conference in Brighton. John Pienaar took me around the Grand Hotel looking for ‘victims’, and very qucikly we found Chris Huhne. At the time Mr Huhne was shadow for the Environment; as I was looking at his hands, John Pienaar was goading me about green policies, but what I was a powerful configuration of political fate coming up in a few years time, and that was what I focussed on.
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Events in the last few days in the British election shows what that political fate might be. Chris Huhne was central to the negotiating team for the coalition with the Conservative Party. As I type, there is a rumour that Mr Huhne’s portfolio could well be Environment in the new coalition government.
There is a joke about the Lib-dems never having to seriously worry about political office in the UK, and that was the case when I read those palms the expectation was that they would have no influence. How times have changed.
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The events of Bigotgate and a car crashing as Lord Mandelson introduced Gordon Brown at a launch in Birmingham this afternoon demonstrate leakage, the subconscious externalisation of processes going on within the collective psyche of the Labour Party. it is as though the collective consciousness of the Labour Party is crumbling – from the top down.
It is abundantly clear that whoever wins will have terrible problems to deal with, toxic solutions that can be suicidal to the party in power when it comes to the next election.
In consciousness terms, the best result for the country seems to be forming; a hung parliament requiring a coalition. For once, the politicians will have to work hard just to stand still. As a result, the country will hopefully avoid any kind of extreme policies railroaded against the wishes of the public.
Given the almost catastropic economic circumstance we find ourselves in, requiring cuts in services and tax hikes, maybe neither Nick Clegg nor David Cameron really want the poisoned chalice. Will we see leakage from the other leaders?