Author Archives: TeenyTinyTarot

Highlights of Study Guide XI on “Force”

Posted on September 7, 2019 by TeenyTinyTarot

Some highlights, separated by ellipses [. . .], are posted below. Follow this link to read the complete summary. Use CTRL-F to search for a desired word or phrase (This thing is the strongest of all powers, the force of … Continue reading →

Posted in Meditations on the Tarot | Tagged bios, electricity, force, holy animality, life, redemption, Sophia, temptation, virgin nature, wisdom, zoe | Leave a comment

Study Guide X. The Wheel of Fortune

Posted on July 13, 2019 by TeenyTinyTarot

A new “study guide” for Letter X, The Wheel of Fortune, has been posted. While reading a summary of this letter is obviously no substitute for reading the original, it should offer a good review for those already familiar it … Continue reading →

Posted in Meditations on the Tarot | Tagged cosmic wheel, creation, evolution, involution, Nietzsche, redemption, Solomon, the Buddha, the fall, world of the serpent, world of the Word | Leave a comment

Lovers Solitaire

Posted on June 25, 2019 by TeenyTinyTarot

Instructions: How to Play Lovers Solitaire A Popular Key to The Soul’s Choice Tarot Spread An Annotated Illustration of the Complete Layout Download PDF of Lovers Solitaire eBooklet

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Study Guide VIIII. The Hermit

Posted on May 26, 2019 by TeenyTinyTarot

A new “study guide” for Letter VIIII* on The Hermit was recently posted. While reading this summary is obviously no substitute for reading the original, it should offer a good review for those already familiar this Letter and may help … Continue reading →

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Study Guide VIII. Justice

Posted on April 8, 2019 by TeenyTinyTarot

A new “study guide” for Letter VIII on Justice has just been posted. While reading this summary is obviously no substitute for reading the original, it should offer a good review for those already familiar Letter VIII and may help … Continue reading →

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Authentic Christian Platonism

Posted on February 24, 2019 by TeenyTinyTarot

“St. Bonaventura, in his doctrine of ‘signatura rerum’, interprets the entire visible world as the symbol of the invisible world. For him, the visible world is only another Holy Scripture, another revelation alongside that which is contained in the Holy … Continue reading →

Posted in Meditations on the Tarot | Tagged Aquinas, Bonaventure, exemplarism, nous, Plato, Plotinus | Leave a comment

Tarot Course Materials

Posted on December 2, 2018 by TeenyTinyTarot

Most of the material linked to, below, was developed for a class which was offered at a local bookstore in 2017. These links can also be found under our new Tarot Course Materials menu item. Some aspects of this material will be revised and supplemented … Continue reading →

Posted in Meditations on the Tarot, Tarot History and Trivia | Tagged aesthetics, Aleister Crowley, archetypes, arthur edward waite, Carl Jung, Eliphas Levi, esoteric schools, Etteillia, Gnosticism, Hermes Trismegistus, Hermetic Philosophy, Hermetism, history, hymn of the pearl, Jungian Psychology, Kabbalah, Lenormand, Mage Edmond, Major Arcana, Marseille, minor arcana, nicholas conver, occultists, Oswald Wirth, pamela colman smith, Papus, Paul Christian, philosophy, Plato, Plotinus, symbols, tarot, Waite-Smith | Leave a comment

The French Tradition

Posted on July 17, 2017 by TeenyTinyTarot

Editor’s Note: Recently, while preparing to give presentations touching on the history and symbolism of the Tarot, I came across the following resources at Tarot-History.Com. The owner of that site kindly agreed to my use of this beautiful and historically … Continue reading →

Posted in Tarot History and Trivia | Tagged Jaques Vieville, Jean Dodal, Jean Noblet, Jean-Claude Flornoy, Nicolas Conver, Roxanne Flornoy, tarot of marseille, tarot-history.com, The French Tradition | Leave a comment

The Soul’s Choice

Posted on May 19, 2017 by TeenyTinyTarot

The Lover stands in equilibrium between two gravitational fields—the world of the serpent, on the one hand, and the world of the Word, on the other (cf. the “psychic man” in Letter XII). MOTT References: “spiritual fornication“ (143); “It is love which … Continue reading →

Posted in Meditations on the Tarot | Tagged contemplative Christianity, empirical ego, nonduality, the hanged man, the lover, The Order of Appearances, The Order of Being, transcendental ego | Leave a comment

“Two Gravitational Fields” (Pope Benedict XVI)

Posted on April 11, 2017 by TeenyTinyTarot

In one of our initial posts (Let the journey begin…), we suggested that Meditations on the Tarot might be linked to Pope Benedict XVI through Robert Spaemann (the same Robert Spaemann who wrote the forward to the German edition of MOTT, … Continue reading →

Posted in Meditations on the Tarot | Tagged gravitation, Letter vi, Letter xii, Pope Benedict xvi, the hanged man, the lover | Leave a comment