Path Notes

Spiritually, I am a cognitive practitioner and contemplative, and have worked 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.

Writings on Tools for Intuition Development (Tarot)

While I was a stay-at-home mom, I did quite a bit of writing often under the Lelandra pen-name. When my son went to school, I retrained as a massage therapist, and my obsession turned in more physical directions.

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

• History of Women's Tarot Timeline
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• Corresponding Court Cards between Decks (A visual argument showing how to relate Thoth to RWS)
• 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
• Meditative Tableaux (This is a skeletal page lacking detail at this point)
• Golden Dawn-Based Tarot Study Guide (Another skeletal page lacking detail, abandoned unfinished)

Tarot Study Group

For a few years in the early 2000's I ran a Tarot study group at Pages for All Ages (RIP).

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

Deck Reviews

• 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)

Book Reviews

• 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)