Spirituality & Magic
A beginners guide to identifying and caring for crystals
Strictly mineralogy: identify stones by hardness, cleavage, habit and streak, spot common lookalikes and fakes, and clean and store each type without…
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Category: <span>Tarot & Crystals</span>
Spirituality & Magic
The tarot court cards as character and symbol
The sixteen court cards read as an iconographic system: Page, Knight, Queen and King across the four suits, and how Pamela Colman…
Spirituality & Magic
A short history of tarot: from Marseille to Rider–Waite–Smith to Thoth
The documented history: a 15th-century Italian card game reinterpreted as occult wisdom in 1781, then remade as the Rider-Waite-Smith and Thoth decks.…
Spirituality & Magic
The Minor Arcana as symbolism: the four suits and the pips
The 56 Minor Arcana cards as iconography: the four suits, their elements, and how Pamela Colman Smith's 1909 scenic pips remade tarot.…
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Crystals as mineralogy: what they are, where they come from, and the ethics of the trade
What crystals are as minerals, how amethyst and quartz form, where they come from, and the labour and environmental ethics of the…
Spirituality & Magic
The Major Arcana as symbolism: a card-by-card guide
The 22 Major Arcana as iconography and history, from Visconti-Sforza to Rider-Waite-Smith, and what each card has traditionally symbolised. Not fortune-telling.