tarot fiction

As part of TABI’s month of Thoth, I thought we could take a look at the court card structure of the Thoth deck because it can be a bit confusing when you encounter it for the first time. The Thoth, created by Aleister Crowley (rhymes with Holy) and Frieda, Lady Harris*, is one of the…

Artist, Illustrator, Student of Magic & Eastern Mysticism, Suffragette Frieda Harris, photo by courtesy of Paul Ashford Harris (grandson of Lady Harris) Percy Harris from Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain Frieda Harris was born Marguerite Frieda Bloxam on 13th August 1877 in Pimlico, England. She was daughter to John and Jessie Bloxam. Her father John Astley…

I had been reading cards for many, many years before adding the Qabalah Tree of Life as a tool to include in my readings. I found it to be one of those aspects of the life-long learning around tarot that didn’t connect with how I worked … until one day it did. I was reading…

At the bottom of each of the Thoth Trumps, there’s the name of the card, an astrological glyph and a symbol. That symbol is a letter of the Hebrew alphabet – the Aleph-Beis. However, the way the Hebrew letters appear seems to vary from edition to edition. On some Thoth decks they are clearly readable…

Ever since its publication in the 1960’s the Thoth tarot has elicited both joy and fear in equal measure. It’s a marmite deck. Much of the negativity surrounding this deck is the result of the man behind it, Aleister Crowley – “the wickedest man in the world”. And yet the reality is that his role…

I fell in love with the Thoth deck over thirty five years ago, around the same time that I discovered astrology, but it was the stars that won my heart at that time and which became my life long passion. I always kept that deck that was gifted to me though, and seven years ago…