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Ethics: Public Readings for Celebrities

Facade.com offers readings -- accessible to the public -- ostensibly done "for" various celebrities, including Steve Jobs of Apple, Inc. Yesterday, a WIRED Magazine blog post on the launch of the iPhone even cited one of these readings:

Even Steve's Tarot of the Day backs him up. According to Facade.com, today he drew the Three Fates spread which "is an exceptionally popular way to gain insight into the emerging arc of the past, present, and future."

(The writer of the WIRED piece seems to confuse the site's random selection of a Tarot spread with the interpretation of that spread.)

Some questions, then, that I hope you'll discuss in the comments:

- To what extent does a reading done "for" a celebrity without that celebrity's involvement or consent have any validity?

- How ethical is it to publish the results of such a reading in a public venue?

What Happens When Tarot Readers Watch South Park?

A South Park Tarot Spread gets created, of course.

Kim Colley in Kentucky created the South Park Self-Discovery Spread as a way to figure out why you keep running into brick walls, making the same mistakes over and over again, or just who you are.

There's a position for every character...it's irresistable. :)

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Test Your Deck I.Q.

Can you identify the tarot deck this card beautiful card comes from?

Here's a hint.  It's a deck about intimate movement and tempo.

It's the.....

The Republican Tarot

Republican Tarot, anyone? (Link)

Sacred Circle Video Tour

Anna Franklin, the creator of the Sacred Circle Tarot, has posted a meditative slideshow of Sacred Circle images on YouTube. (Link)

Tarot of Atlantis

People have been fascinated by the legend of Atlantis since the Greek philosopher Plato first wrote about the city over 2,500 years ago. These cards depict the people and stories of Atlantis re-interpreted through the Tarot. Some of the Major Arcana show the destruction of Atlantis. For example, The Tower is illustrated by a gigantic tidal wave about to engulf the city walls and Judgment shows a volcano and earthquake, leading to the city's demise. Some cards are more contemplative; The Star shows an Astrologer studying the heavens and presumably predicting the imminent catastrophe. Some cards will appeal to puzzle-solvers. For example, The Lovers shows two near-naked men wrestling. This may not make much sense until you remember that during his life Plato was more famous for being a wrestler than he was for being a philosopher.

Hudes Tarot - Susan Hudes

“The beauty of medieval art and symbolic nature of mythology serve as the inspiration for the creation of this tarot deck…Themes of alchemy and astrology suggest the magical nature of medieval thought, the same ideas that initiated the art of tarot reading.” – From the Little White Book

When I saw the Death card from the Hudes Tarot online, I knew this was a must-have deck. It is truly one of the most beautiful Death cards that I’ve ever seen, incorporating an unfurled butterfly juxtaposed against the pelvic area of the skeleton—an area symbolizing conception, gestation and birth. Creative, transformative regeneration—a concept not always integrated in Death card imagery.

Salt Lake Woman Positions Tarot as "Prayer Tool"

Tracey, founder of Salt Lake's School of Medium Arts and Predictive Sciences, believes her biblically-based approach to Tarot will help "take predictive science out of the basement."

This feature on Tracey's work in the Salt Lake Tribune is remarkably well-balanced, providing readers with a surprisingly neutral overview of divination and a pre-emptive rebuttal of fundamentalist arguments against divination.

Synchronicity in Reading Requests

I had a funny experience the other day; I was doing a tarot reading for someone else, when two cards came up that just made me laugh because they are so indicative of my life right now. I have long suspected the tarot does this - I often seem to get requests for readings that give me messages that are as much for me as they are for the querant.