yes against the day!

David Casseres david.casseres at gmail.com
Wed Nov 29 13:55:30 CST 2006


Morgan's Tarot:

http://www.amazon.com/Morgans-Tarot-Deck-Morgan-Robbins/dp/0880790288

As you can guess from the price, the physical deck is a collector's
item.  Fortunately it's also online:

http://www.sleepbot.com/morgan/index_h.html



On 11/27/06, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> I've got about five different decks, all with their own
> individual schmata, usually some gypsy-ish kerchief
> or something larger, for regular use. Like the The
> Crowley/Frieda Harris/Thoth deck in particular, as it
> has greater exultation of female energies, and seems to
> give the clearest readings. The High Priestess, Empress
> and Star cards are among the most beautiful Tarot cards
> I've seen.
>
> It occurs to me that I never took Tarot cards seriously until
>  I read Gravity's Rainbow. And then there's those pull quotes
> from the Duino Elegies and A. E. Waite's book of black magic.
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: kelber at mindspring.com
> > Tarot-card reading is pop psychology, particularly the Rider-Waite deck, which
> > functions as a Rorsharch deck of loaded judeo-christian symbols readily
> > accessible to Westerners.  I did a tarot-card reading for a co-worker and
> > floored her with my insights.  I was considering trying to become a professional
> > "psychic" but didn't because a) fucking around with people's emotional lives is
> > way too scary, and b) my daughter told me she'd just die of embarrassment if I
> > did.
> >
> >
> > Laura
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > >From: Anville Azote <anville.azote at gmail.com>
> >
> > >
> > >http://www.randi.org/swift/current/psychic.html
> > >
> > >-- which is much how my father taught me Tarot, back when I was a
> > >little munchkin of a book-lover.
> > >
> > >-A. A.
> >
>
>



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