A slim doorway between Tattoos and The Devil’s Spoke lies the Institute Library, just off the green in New Haven. The closing even for FORECAST was a blast and a great chance to explore the library as well as get a good last look at the wonders of the exhibition. You can read about the…
Tag: divination
Forecast: Opening Day!
Today’s the day! Forecast opens at the Gallery Upstairs at The Institute Library. reception from 5-7pm. Fabulous art about divination and magic. Alas, I will not be able to be there due to the latest arctic blast, illness, and various Belle Ombre misfortunes (if you’re thinking about buying a 200+ year old house, consider carefully…
Forecast: Art Show
I could not be more pleased to be part of FORECAST: READING THE SIGNS at the Gallery Upstairs at the Institute Library in New Haven. What a great theme — you know how much I love systems of divination! It will feature terrific works by gal pals Stephanie Johnson AKA The Queen of Everything, Jennifer…
Out Now: The Art of Drawing Cards and The Tarot
The Art of Drawing Cards and The Tarot Aldegonde Perenna, The Polish Sibyl There’s nothing quite like this tarot book. The editors of this curious 1826 volume threw in every method they could find for reading and playing cards. Cartomancy in nineteenth century France was not a world without rules, but one with too many!…
Review: The Lady and the Beast – Deja Whitehouse
When I visited the Tarot exhibit at the Warburg Institute, one of the joys was to see Frieda Harris’ original art for the Thoth deck. Probably second only to the Smith-Waite deck in popularity amongst English decks, the Thoth deck art doesn’t really get much of an outing. There are different reasons given for this–preservation…
Open Your Heart of Wild Honey #PCA2025
In lieu of the usual #TarotTuesday Irreverent Tarot I give you a slapped-together live recording of my talk at PCA this past weekend, ‘Open Your Heart of Wild Honey’: Occult Medievalism in Leonora Carrington’s The Hearing Trumpet. I very lightly edited the audio so it’s still full of ahhs and umms and stumbles of various…