Pop Culture Tarot

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• Shell Divination

  Friday, August 4th

  Also on the topic of divination, I highly recommend checking out my recent experience having a shell reading (dilogun) done for me by a Santero, or priest of Santeria. An excerpt: Spread out on the table was a straw mat with eight white lines drawn on it and a cross marked in cascarilla. Next to that […]

• Adding Two Cards to the Major Arcana

  Tuesday, August 1st

  A reader sent me a really interesting piece they put together on why the Major Arcana of the Tarot deck should be expanded from 22 to 24 cards. The theory seems to revolve around the associations between the Major Arcana and the Greek versus Hebrew alphabets. Very thought-provoking stuff. Go check it out! Thanks for the […]

• Recent Tarot Reading

  Monday, July 17th

  I wanted to save for posterity a tarot reading that I recently had done for me through the mail. The topic at hand was related to finding a spiritual path and a teacher, and practicing “magic” (whatever you want to take that to mean): This reading was done with Lon Milo DuQuette’s Tarot of Ceremonial Magick, […]

• Tarot Inspired Artwork

  Thursday, July 6th

  Came across a really cool website called Voice of Thoth. It is written by a guy who is involved in the Santeria religion out of Baltimore, Eric K. Lerner. There is lots of great content related to both Tarot and to an African divination system called Dilogun. And he also has a page of great […]

• Three of Wands (Virtue)

  Wednesday, July 5th

  Just pulled the Three of Wands card on Facade, which it describes as meaning: Personal fortitude and strength of character. Accumulated power set in motion towards a distant goal. The initiation of an enduring partnership based on absolute trust. Honor maintained in a time of desperate struggle. Taking full responsibility for a decision, and bearing […]

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The Pop Culture Tarot is a collaborative divination system which combines classic tarot and occult imagery with modern pop culture icons, offering a unique look into the symbols that underly our lives and culture.