Today's Tarot.

I have noticed a regular ritual I'm starting to pick up again. I don't believe in magic or "magick", or any of that crap anymore than I believe in any sort of god. That goes for the Cthulu mythos as well as the more popular strains of delusion and mass hysteria that we hominids call religion.

I ascribe to the belief that we as a species are always looking for patterns, even when there are none, and that looking at a bunch of pretty cards will probably key into my subconscious and maybe provide me with some clues as to what I should be mindful of in my life.

I call them 'story cards' to the dirklings. We used to look at them together when I lived in Seattle. This last visit the Girl Cub found the box again in the new place, and I keep them in a place I can check them regularly.

I've noticed a few trends of late.

It used to be that when I was going through some kind of drama, I would always get certain cards in certain positions telling me certain doom. I know, go figure.

I love how rich the colors are and the level of detail. I use the Robin Wood Deck available here and I think I'll start posting them on a new blog just for that. We'll see how long that lasts.

These cards no more tell me the future than does the local paper's Horoscope, yet, there's a certain charm to looking at them, and telling today's tale in them.

I came across this site ages ago,facade.com, and they have all manner of divination tools, run by CGI scripts. Lots of fun. Just remember; all divination is intuition, nothing else. Make your own future.