Tarot goes Hollywood: The Cosmic Tarot

The Cosmic Tarot by Norbert Losche, US Games 1988, is my deck of the week. One of its distinguishing features is its use of movie stars in the cards. The box says, 'Seventy-eight cards feature stylized renderings of familiar figures.' As this is my tarot of the week, I thought it would be fun to have a look at some of these cards. There is no definitive source telling us who is meant to be depicted on each card, but it helps to remember that the deck was published in 1988, so you won't find Jennifer Lawrence or James Franco anywhere!

The most obvious ones:

To me, the above are most certainly Clark Gable, Rita Hayworth, Greta Garbo and Elizabeth Taylor.

Wicca Moon Saturday

Wicca Moon Tarot

The 4 of Cups in the Rider Waite Smith deck is usually interpreted to mean boredom. I don't hold with these RWS meanings so much anymore...and I'm finding more and more that I prefer pips-only decks to fully illustrated ones. For a long, long time, 6 of Swords meant to me only a boat crossing the water, and all that image might symbolize. But the 6 of Swords is far more than that, and the 4 of Cups is far more than a petulant youth leaning against a tree.

I'm opening up more and more to an older method of card reading. (At least I assume it's older...) Using just numerological meanings and elemental correspondences of the suit, interpret the card in the context of the question. Then use any additional visual cues on the card, if intuition suggests it. So in this 4 of Cups from Wicca Moon Tarot, I cannot fail to remember that the Cups suit is the suit of Water, which represents feelings, emotions, and relationships. The number four is associated with stability, security, even conformity. So using the number + suit = meaning method, I would start from the basis that this card has to do with stable emotions, relationships, feelings. Whether that would be the need to stabilize, or the need to rock the boat a bit, would depend on the question asked, the card position assigned, and the other cards around it in the reading.

Reading this card in context of my draw for the week, I would say that today will be a day of good feelings, secure and balanced emotions, though the storm clouds and tipping cup remind me that keeping that equilibrium is my own choice and responsibility.

I love the Wicca Moon Tarot, hope you have enjoyed seeing the cards this week. :)

Wicca Moon Week Friday

Wicca Moon by Shirlee @ WiccaMoon

It's Good Friday, bank holiday and I'm off work! Yay! Last night I fell asleep on the couch around 8.40 pm and didn't really wake up again until midnight, when I got up and groggily went to bed. So it's now 6 AM and I'm up and feeling relatively human for a change. (I tend to have trouble getting a decent number of hours' sleep; usually it's around 5 or 6 that I average per night. No idea why.)

I remember saying to hubster last night we had better not have too much sugar or coffee because we'd be up until 2 or 3 in the morning like were recently, and he was all 'Doesn't matter, no work tomorrow, yay!' And I said, 'It interrupts the circadian rhythm.' It occurs to me this morning that keeping up the circadian rhythm is an Emperor-ish thing to do.

Wicca Moon Thursday

Wicca Moon by Shirlee@WiccaMoon

Chocolate and wasps

It's the Death card again. I'm getting a little tired of being told to change. When it comes to change, I dig in my heels something fierce. If I decide to cut down on the chocolate, I eat more of it that day. If I feel like I should work out, I then go days or weeks NOT doing it (saying to myself I'll do it tomorrow). Who am I defying? Don't know. 'Screw it!' I say to myself. 'I'm going to do what I want.' Even though, at least some of the time, I actually did want to eat less chocolate or work out. Sort of. But for some reason I just don't. In a small way, it's like what Paul describes in Romans 7: 'For what I am doing I do not understand, for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but am doing the very thing I hate.' Paul of course suggests that his inner man knows what is good, but his sinful body goes against his mind. Well, I disagree with that.  I think it's more a matter of what is gratifying in the moment vs what is best in the long run. Of course it's more gratifying in the moment to eat all the chocolate in sight, or to curl up with a book rather than to change clothes, get all sweaty working out, have a shower, and so on. But then of course I have to deal with feeling guilty and sick, and losing flexibility, muscle tone and cardiovascular health. Trouble is, those consequences are way far way from the moment when you open the foil on the choc, or put on your slippers instead of your trainers.

Wicca Moon Week Wednesday

Wicca Moon by Shirlee@wiccamoon

Who's that girl?

Guess who this is. She looks so charming and impish, doesn't she? But if you look along the back of her velvety cape, you will see written in white: 'Devil XV'. Ooh, she's a tricksy little thing. What IS going on in this Devil card?

Owl

Oghams

Gold chains

Belladonna

Tuberoses

Mandrake

At least I think those things are on this card. But what do they mean? If they're even there at all? And what does this card mean in relation to my draw for the week? Maybe it has to do with self-deception. It's so seductive. In what ways am I lying to myself? In what ways am I trying to think I'm all deep and symbolic, when really I'm just being a bitch? These are important questions. What a little temptress this impish lass is.