Aria Sparrowsong's TAROT AND STARS

The Truth About Tarot  By James McConnachie Whether divining ancient wisdoms or elevating the art of cold reading, tarot is a form of therapy, much like psychoanalysis There are clues that this is no ordinary suburban living room. For one, we’re in Glastonbury. Then there’s the perfumed candle, the Buddha figure, the cloth draped over the television and, not least, the worn little wooden box that sits atop an occasional table hung with black silk. Inside it are 78 tarot cards. I have come to Glastonbury as a ‘querent’ – which is what tarot practitioners call a customer. A querent, traditionally, comes with a question. I have several. Assuming that tarot cards do not work as a method of reading the future, why does tarot persist? How has tarot survived as an object, a practice, a text, and a peculiarly velvety strand in European popular culture? Where did something so strange, dream-like and overburdened with symbolism come from? In Glastonbury’s bookshops, alongside se...

# TarotandStars  is leaving Tampa, Florida very soon and heading for the forest and mountains...and a new life! I want to thank my clients in advance for all the good times and the healing! I will always be available for online readings or consultations over the phone so I hope we will all stay connected. I will be here until the beginning of March and if you want to get together before then, message or text me to set up an appointment or even a cup of coffee and some conversation will do. I will be working at  Enchanted Triple Moon  and  Alchemy & Ashes  until I leave.  # tarotintampa Touching down sometime during the first week of March 2019. Laurel Mountains in Southwest Pennsylvania