Path Notes
Spiritually, I am a cognitive practitioner and contemplative, and have been working with the Tarot since 1983. Though my journey began with books by Merlin Stone, Barbara Walker, Zsuzsanna Budapest, Starhawk, Marion Weinstein, Judy Chicago, and Mary Daly in the early 1980's, it wasn't long before Eris intervened and Illuminatus! and R.A.W. warped my worldview. My path took a more hermetic direction for the several years, before turning in the direction of healing traditions and eastern philosophy.
Some favorite quotes and thoughts
Ritual and Devotional Writings
While it is going to be a project to find these items on old backup discs, I'm planning to put up ritual texts I was involved in writing.
- Invocation and Devocation to Lupercus (Imbolc 2012)
- Christo-Pagan Lammas Ritual (Lammas 1996, Llan Dobhran)
- Elemental Prayer to the Christian Family
Writings on Tools for Intuition Development (Tarot)
While I was a stay-at-home mom, I did quite a bit of writing on the subject of Tarot often under the Lelandra pen-name. When my son went to school, I retrained as a massage therapist, and have taken a hiatus from this subject matter for a while.
Pictorial Collections
- Tarot Decks In Categories: A Picture is Worth 1000 Words (More than a dozen different categories showing the same cards across several different decks)
- A Collection of Decks (Mini-reviews of decks in my collection)
Essays here at Lelandra.com
- Golden Dawn-Based Tarot Study Guide (unfinished)
- Corresponding Court Cards between Decks (A visual argument showing how to relate Thoth to RWS)
- Meditative Tableaux (This is a skeletal page lacking detail at this point)
- History of Women's Tarot Timeline
- The Merlin and Dreampower Tarots of R.J. Stewart: Harmonics and Qabalistic Basis
- The English Qabalah of W.G. Gray (compared to Golden Dawn and French correspondences)
- Hogwarts Houses and the Four Elements
Tarot Study Group
For a couple of years I ran a Tarot study group at Pages for All Ages. Here is the files section of the yahoogroup for cutsg, which contains the handouts I made.
Print Publications
An article on RWS (Rider-Waite-Smith) Variations in Llewellyn's 2005 Tarot Reader (North American Release August 2004)
Devouring Kitsch: Image Collecting and Cultural Appropriation in Lupa's anthology Talking about the Elephant: An Anthology of Neopagan Perspectives on Cultural Appropriation (Immanion Press/Megalithica Books, 2008)
Reviews Published at Tarot Passages
- The William Blake Tarot by Ed Buryn (/blake-jc.htm)
- The Chinese Tarot Deck by Jui Guoliang (/chinese-jc.htm)
- The Fey Tarot Deck by Mara Aghem (artist) and Riccardo Minetti (narrator and advisor) (/fey-jc.htm)
- The Kalevala Tarot by Kai Kalervo Aaltonen, Artwork by Taina Pailos (/kalevala-jc.htm)
- The Ship of Fools Tarot Deck by Brian Williams (/ship-jc.htm)
- The Oracle Tarot Deck by Lucy Cavendish, Illustrated by Melinda Pearson (/oracletarot-jc.htm)
- Liber T: Tarot of Stars Eternal by Roberto Negrini, artwork by Andrea Serio (/liber-t-jc.htm)
- Tarot of the Dead by Monica Knighton (/dead-jc.htm)
- Forest Folklore Tarot by Kessia Beverley-Smith (/Pages2/forestfolk-jc.htm)
- The Gilded Tarot by Ciro Marchetti with Companion Book by Barbara Moore (/Pages2/gilded-jc.htm)
- Revelations Tarot by Zach Wong (revelations-jc.htm)
- Tarot of Dreams by Ciro Marchetti, with Lee Bursten and Carlos Andres Rodriguez (/Pages2/dreams-jc.htm)
- Tarot of Atlantis by Bepi Vigna, Illustrated by Massimino Rotundo (/Pages2/atlantis-jc.htm)
- The Kabbalah Tree: A Journey of Balance and Growth by Rachel Pollack (pollackkabbalah-jc.htm)
- The Tarot Court Cards: Archetypal Patterns of Relationship in the Minor Arcana by Kate Warwick-Smith (warwick-smith-jc.htm)
- Tarot Tells the Tale by James Ricklef (rickleftale-jc.htm)
- Understanding the Tarot Court by Mary K. Greer and Tom Little (understandingtarotcourt-jc.htm)
- What Tarot Can Do For You by Barbara Moore (MooreWhatTarotCanDo-jc.htm)