Divination

[sabrinamari]

Scorpio Horoscope for week of June 30, 2005

Introducing Adrienne Rich at a poetry reading in San Francisco in 2004, Frances Phillips turned to her and said, "Thank you for your lovely, irreverent, unsettled, curious mind." It was a fitting tribute to a poet who for 50 years has stirred up good trouble with her rowdy yet disciplined work. By the end of this week, Scorpio, I would like to feel justified in saying the same thing to you: "Thank you for your lovely, irreverent, unsettled, curious mind." Now get out there and pull off the most healing mischief you can imagine.


The card accompanying this horoscope is labeled "Total Committment" and the image looks like I feel when I call the quarters, the gods, or make love.

Comments

[dawningday.livejournal.com]

The Vertical Oracle - the deck from which those cards are taken - is kickass for divination. When I read for folks, I normally start with I Ching, then move to Tarot, then Runes, but I always finish up with the Vertical Oracle. It tends to lighten the mood, make people remember that -they're- the ones making decisions in their lives, and gives them a laugh while we're at it. If you like the artwork, I really recommend getting a copy of the deck.

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

Thank you. You have answered a question I've been wondering about for a long time: from what deck do the cards that Rob B. uses in conjunction with his horoscopes come? I wondered if he had had them made for his own use; now that I know that they are a mass-produced deck, I can look for them on my own.

I think I'd get more out of his readings if I had this deck to work with. I "speak" astrology in the most basic sense, but I speak Tarot fluently, and I think this predisposes me towards other kinds of card-based divinatory systems, too. Since I'm looking to divination primarily to assist me in moving towards transformation in my life, drawing on the deck he uses in conjunction with his astrological interpretations makes alot of sense for me.

[dawningday.livejournal.com]

Actually, I once asked him how he determined which cards to pair with which horoscopes, and he said it was all random - just another layer to work with.

I don't know if you'll find the Vertical Oracle in any bookstores (I haven't seen it anywhere yet), but you can get it at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0965734102/qid=1120596899/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-9125973-6247812?v=glance&s=books. The cost has gone up since I got my copy, I think. The homesite for the oracle is here: http://www.verticalpool.com/oracle.html.

I thought that my familiarity with Tarot would help me with the Vertical Oracle, too, but only insofar as I had developed some of the basic, intuitive skills of a diviner. The Vertical Oracle does NOT play by the same rules as the Tarot. At all. Ever. It's a remarkable tool, and I'm still uncovering new subtleties within it.