Tarot All Over the Place

We’re certainly glad that you could make it. Do check out the other group of this name on Facebook, and Tegwedd will likely be starting more Tarot for you groups around the Internet. She can think of three more places where she’ll be starting more clones, Google groups, Paganspace.net, and Abbottsinnian’s. She won’t be starting any more groups on WiccanTogether. They haven’t approved any of the groups she’s tried to start there lately, so she’s decided that the management it snooting on us, so she’ll just leave them to stew in their own juices. Sorry that we’ve been gone so long, but for a few months, we had computer issues, and the library hardly gives you enough time to do anything. Now Tegwedd has a new computer, and Stephen is trying to be patient about waiting for his laptop to be finished being worked on. We also started several new groups, most of them being about vampire TV shows and movies. If you go to Hi5, there’s a whole passle of vampire groups we’ve started. Soon Stephen will have his laptop back, and we’ll be able to finish those 3 sample chapters for the Ultimate Guide to the Tarot. This group has three names: Tarot for You, Tarot for Pagans, and the tertiary one is the same as the book, the Ultimate Guide to the Tarot.

Which is your favorite deck? Stephen has three favorites: The DruidCraft Tarot, The Legend Arthurian Tarot, and the Llewellyn Tarot. Tegwedd’s favorite decks are: The Morgan-Greer Tarot, and the Robin Wood Tarot. For a 3rd favorite, she’s torn between The Fey Tarot and the Mystical Faerie Tarot. Anna Marie Ferguson did the Legend Arthurian Tarot and the Llewellyn Tarot, which has drop-dead gorgeous artwork on it, so it ranks pretty high on her list of favorites too. Stephen has three favorites for obvious reasons. His number is 3 so he does everything by 3s. To Stephen, 3 represents the triple Goddess, Maiden, Mother, Crone, some say Hag. Hag is from the Greek Hagia meaning holy or sacred, as Hagia Sophia, Holy Wisdom. The 3rd Trump is the Empress, Path 14 on the Tree of Life. Her Hebrew letter is Daleth--doorway-- doorways of opportunity. The Empress has two elements, both of the so-called passive, receptive or feminine elements, water and earth. Tegwedd’s number is 11, which is the Strength card, the Hebrew letter Teth meaning Sword, which Tegwedd begins with. Since her number is 11, she needs to list 7 more favorite decks, which she hasn’t yet come up with, her 5th fave is the Llewellyn Tarot, Her 6th fave is one of her 3 vampire decks, 7th fave is the Wizards Tarot just because of the artwork, the symbolism, and all the spreads in the book. 8th fave is the Fantasy Showcase Tarot, 9th fave is Tarot of the Elves, 10th fave is the Tarot of the Wild Spirit and 11th fave is the Gilded Tarot. There they all are. You may notice that many of them are Llewellyn decks. That’s because Llewellyn is the most readily available Tarot deck publisher. A few mouse clicks an a few bucks out of her account gets the Tarot deck to her door.

On Twitter, we’re working on doing not only a Tarot card for the day, a Rune for the day, but also an Ogham for the day. There are 78 Tarot cards, 24 Runes, and 25 Ogham fews, so do the math. Lots of people do the Tarot card for the day, some do the Rune of the day, a few do the Ogham few of the day, but we believe we’ll be the 1st ones to do all three.

We’ve asked before what it is about these 78 pieces of printed card stock that is so exciting and mystical. Well, nobody answered, so we’ll keep on asking the question until somebody answers. Then we’ll come up with another question. Or you can. C’mon, we know you’re out there, we can hear you breathing in the cheap seats. So answer the damned question already. We’re good at asking questions. Like this one. Which is your favorite Tarot card out of the 78? Stephen has 3, as you might guess. First is the Magician card, ruled by Mercury the great communicator, he wields mastery over all four of the elements represented by the 4 magickal tools on his altar or working table, Wand for Fire, Sword for Air, Cup or Chalice for Water, and Pentacle (some spell it Pantacle) for Earth. As the great communicator, the Magician rules over the four Knights, who are messengers. Stephen aspires to than mastery. His other favorites are the Chariot (again a man striving for mastery or control), and the Knight or King of Cups. The Chariot represents Cancer, Stephen’s Sun sign. The King and Knight of Cups because he is a male Water sign. Tegwedd likes the Star because she is an Aquarius, having 3 planets in Aquarius, Sun, Mercury and Mars. She likes the High Priestess because she is a priestess, and the High Priestess represents the feminine mysteries, which, being a woman, she is privy to. She likes the 9 or Pentacles because she aspires to being the lady in the garden with the bird, and the 10 of Pentacles because she aspires to all those Pentacles. The planet Mercurry rules 2 signs, Gemini and Virgo, from May 21st to June 21st, give or take a few days, and from August 21st to September 20th, give or take a few days. Tegwedd has a strong Mercurial influence since Mercury is in her Sunsign conjunct her Sun, and her rising sign is Vergo, which accounts for her being a phonetic. In the Tarot, Gemini is the Lovers, path 17,Zayn the flaming sword (of the intellect) and Virgo is the Hermit, path 20 Yod the open hand (of friendship) of sharing knowledge, wisdom, and understanding. The Magician has 2 elements assigned to him, Air the intellect, communication, commerce, and travel, and Fire passion, will power,desire, success in career, activities of all kinds. Put all four tools on the Magician’s table and you get the Quintessence, the fifth element, which is Spirit, the top of the pentagram. The 4 Aces rule the 4 seasons, the Ace of Wants rules summer, the Ace of Cups ruls fall/autumn, the Ace of Swords spring, and the Ace of Pentacles rules winter. The 4 kings start at age 40 and go up from there in age, the four knights go from 30 to 39, the Queens are females age 40 and up, the 4 Pages birth to age 29.

For all you astrologers out there, Stephen was born at Columbus OH, 10:50 pm EST July 6th, 1950 He’s a triple Cancer, Sun, Mercury and Uranus all conjunct. Face value for the Chariot is 7 value for Cheth which means fence enclosure or protection is 8. There is a numerical value for each letter from 1 to 1000, so the Hebrew letters do double duty as letters and numbers. Tegwedd used to know a young man who would get high on crank and figure out the numerical values for all the sacred words he’d use in the rituals he’d compose. Trouble is he’s get so involved in computing the numerical formulas that he’d never get around to actually performing the rituals. Tegwedd decided to 1. not touch crank the only speed she has anything to do with is caffeine in tea and Coca Cola or Jolt, 2. not be that kind of magician. She’ll go ahead and do the ritual, then figure out what the formulas mean when she writes it up in her magickal diary.

Tegwedd was born January 25th 9:16 pm CST 1947 in Fargo, ND. She’s a triple Aquarius, Sun, Mercury, Mars conjunct in Aquarius, with Virgo ascendant and Pisces Moon. For her, that the Moon Trump represents Pisces is extremely appropos.

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