Diloggun and its relationship to Tarot

By Eric K. Lerner As a santero, Yoruba priest, who practices divination with both diloggun and tarot, I am frequently asked to compare the two and will attempt to do so in this brief essay. Historically, Tarot began as a card game in Medieval Europe. It gained popularity as a means of predicting the future. [...]

Meditation on the Nineteenth Major Arcanum of the Tarot

extract from the book Meditations on the Tarot THE SUN – LE SOLEIL The preceding Arcanum—"The Moon"—confronted us with the task of human intelligence to liberate itself from the magical enchantment which separates it from spontaneous wisdom, and to unite itself with the latter, i.e. to arrive at intuition. The nineteenth Arcanum—"The Sun"— is that [...]

On certification, the codification of ethics, and reading Tarot

by Jean-Michel David [The following article is essentially one I wrote some years ago (here with only very minor editing) in response to a request for some clarification with regards to my views on tarot reading certification and the increased usage of so-called 'codes of ethics'. At that time, various discussion threads on aeclectic.net's tarotforum had [...]