Roswila's Tarot Gallery and Journal by Patricia Kelly (a/k/a Roswila) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. (Be sure to scroll down and read the entire license.) This license applies only to original text and images by Patricia Kelly. For permission to use work attributed to others herein, those authors/artists will need to be contacted.
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PLEASE NOTE: All photos on this blog designated as cards in Roswila's "The Found Tarot" are by Patricia Kelly (a/k/a Roswila)
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"Tarot cards are like people. We get to know them more or less well, but never completely. And like people, they change with experience of them. This is not to say we can't really know a card. Anymore than one would say one doesn't really know one's best friend or mate or lover. Simply that with these cards we form, as with people, many-faceted, changing relationships." Roswila
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MY TAROT BACKGROUND: I've studied, collected and taught Tarot for 45 years, collecting many, many notes about meanings, approaches, and layouts I've seen or developed for the cards. I do not usually post the more traditional meanings as I learned them, but only those that are -- at least to me -- less common as they occur to me (many with a decidedly psychological bent). I ultimately offer Tarot meaning and other Tarot-related posts hoping to contribute to the rich and constantly evolving universe of The Tarot. But even more so, to encourage you to explore the wide variety of Tarot art, and maybe even to learn to read the Tarot for yourself and reap its rich rewards.
IMPORTANT RECOMMENDATION TO BEGINNERS: What I share here is not intended to be a comprehensive look at any one card. These simply are what I consider to be somewhat less usual ways I've come across of relating to a card, both in terms of image and meanings. Books and web sites abound for the more traditional and common meanings of the Tarot cards. If you are a beginner, I highly encourage you try some of the links listed below, and as resources at the bottoms of posts here. Tarot is an extremely diverse and exciting field.
About Me
- Name: Roswila
- Location: Goleta, California, United States
Retired, I'm grateful to indulge in daily blogging, taking digital photos, writing poetry just about every day, and other creative efforts, as the spirit grabs me.
Prayer by Roswila
Basho
Links
ADDITIONAL LINKS APPEAR IN RELEVANT POSTS (IN THE BODY AND AT THE END UNDER "RESOURCE")
[Although I do check each out beforehand, the posting of a link, advertisement, or resource anywhere on this blog does not constitute endorsement.]
Previous Posts
- TAROT TANKA ON THE TOWER (how's that for alliterat...
- THAT OLD DEVIL YOU: an XV in The Found Tarot
- "THE FIFTH TAROT" deck review: a whole new dimensi...
- FURTHER EXPLORATION OF THE QUEEN OF CUPS
- ANOTHER HIGH PRIESTESS FOR THE FOUND TAROT
- A NEW MEANING EACH WITH IMAGES FOR: The Hierophant...
- A New Hermit Card (IX) for The Found Tarot
- AN ABSTRACT THREE OF CUPS (3C) for the FOUND TAROT
- AN UMPTEENTH ACE OF CUPS IN THE FOUND TAROT
- (Another) FIVE OF WANDS IN THE FOUND TAROT
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"Without imagination the soul is not perceptible." -- a teaching of Hermeticism
"I get up. I walk. I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing." -- Rabbi Hillel
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." -- Robert Frost
"Though law, scripture, priest and prayer have all instructed me, my skin, my bones, my heretic heart are my authority." - from the pagan song "The Heretic Heart" by Catherine Madsen
"Prophets do not foretell the future; rather, they see deeply into the present." -- David J. Wolpe
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