Andrew Arcana

Introduction

Hello. This is Andrew Arcana again.

These are things I want to say with good intentions, but which may stir up bad feelings or fights in the spaces I visit.

So, I'm going to tread carefully. Even though I will argue against deck interviews in some situations, I also believe fully that everyone's practice belongs to them. It is not my place to say what your practice is.

My case against them surrounds possible harm, especially to new tarot readers. I think that deck interviews can cause problems for newcomers. They should be spoken about with a little more care and caution.

Primarily, this comes from my time on forums. This comes from observing new readers who may even feel discouraged by tarot in general because of their very first reading. A bad deck interview could cause them to give up.

A lot of people on the forums I haunt have been asking how to memorize the seventy-eight tarot cards.

This can be both very simple and complex. A lot of readers get more from putting their intuitive processes over the designations assigned to each card. Personally, I benefitted a lot more out of studying and memorizing the tarot deck.

Introduction

I bought my first deck in 2010. Shortly afterward, I wound up paying for a membership at one of the more prominent message boards for tarot readers. I also had friends learning tarot out in the real world.

Some of them gave me the advice that worked for them, but not very well for me. I appreciate the time they took and the help they offered.

What follows is the advice that I had to give myself in order to genuinely start learning.

This is the text outline that I used to create my video reply to the #OccultTea tag. The video can be found at:

This is, as always, just one small part of my personal notes from this decan walk.

This is, as always, just one small part of my personal notes from this decan walk.

As of this writing on July 7, 2023, there is an argument about whether to federate or not with Threads. These are my thoughts.

This is an excerpt from Venus in Cancer

A short piece from my personal notes.

This is an excerpt from Sol in Gemini

My notes, references, and cross references for each card is always several pages long. Now that I have this blog, I may share some very abridged thoughts about each card in the decan walk.

Divination

There is danger of thinking about thinking. The ultimate “ruin” in this card is: Thought has reached its ultimate purpose and utility, yet still exists only as thoughts.

Welcome! I had been wanting a blog for my friends from tarot spaces and similar backgrounds.

I have been reading for myself since 2010. At first, I used the cards as a creative aid to write short horror fiction at Dark Arcanum. I loved (and still kind of love) horror movies, I had briefly been writing for a video game (it went poorly), and I wanted to keep going. Those aren't stories I usually feel great about these days.