Welcome back to Dark Mirror Alchemy! We will take a quick break this week from The Hermit's Journey to discuss the combined arts of reading tarot and reading people. I have had the pleasure and privilege to learning tarot while also getting my degrees in psychology. So, I wanted to share in this blog series how the different levels of psychology can help us read tarot better; especially if you are in situation where you are giving a reading to a stranger. With the help of the court cards in the suit of swords, this series will be comprised of four posts, which will explore each of the following levels of human psychology: Biases and Heuristics with the Page of Swords Motivation and Emotion with the Knight of Swords Personality and Identity with the Queen of Swords Groups and Culture with the King of Swords The first two installments of this series will teach you about the very basics of human behavior. If you like mixed metaphors, we are going to look under the h
The writings of Tomlin Basilbrook, the Impulse Gnome