Animating the Tarot Pips

A series of posts dedicated to the tarot pips filtered through the body, or more properly, from a phenomenological and experiential perspective.

  • Encountering the Suits: Heart of Life

    Lectio Divina is a medieval monastic practice embodied as an engaged reading of the Word. It is not analytical, and it does not employ the mind in discourse under prescribed limits, inquiries, and notions. It is an engagement with the word through contemplation, experience, sensation and meditation. Lectio Divina is a feasting on the Word. First,…

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  • Encountering the Suits: Armed Force

    At its most basic, tactile, and visual, a sword is an instrument, a weapon with a pointed edge used to cut. Swords are sharp and bring pain and division to whatever encounters its sharp edge. Held aloft if protects from the other, from what is at the other side of the pointed edge. It can…

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  • Animating the Tarot Pips: An Introduction

    This is a series born out of a book idea. Instead of going the book route, I will share most of what I had in mind here in pieces or parts. This is the introduction, as such, I’d like to keep it brief but with enough context to wet interest. Firstly, the intention for this…

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