Thurs­day, Jan­u­ary 7th, and we’re pleased to release the lat­est episode of our pop­u­lar orig­i­nal series on the Tarot: “Tarot @ Teatime”, on the air Thurs­days and Sun­days at noon and 4pm Pacif­ic Time/SLT, 8pm and mid­night in the UK.

In Episode 23, Hon­ey and Wil­low dis­cuss the Druid­craft Tarot.

Will Wor­thing­ton cre­at­ed the images for the beau­ti­ful Druid­craft Tarot. He is often inspired by the work of the pre-Raphaelite artists, par­tic­u­lar­ly their use of the nat­ur­al imagery of the British Isles cou­pled with the Arthuri­an leg­ends. He paint­ed the images of the Druid­craft Tarot deck using an ancient medi­um called Egg-Tem­pera, which is a tech­nique also used by the pre-Raphaelite painters.

Egg-Tem­pera is cre­at­ed using fine­ly ground pig­ments mixed with the con­tents of an egg yolk. The out­er skin or mem­brane of the yolk is punc­tured and the liq­uid yolk is drained into a cup, mixed with a few drops of an extend­ing agent such as white vine­gar, oil of myrrh, or even water. Then the ground pig­ment is added. The extend­ing agent keeps the egg-tem­pu­ra from dry­ing too quick­ly — oth­er­wise the egg yolk dries imme­di­ate­ly upon con­tact with air. Egg tem­pera is not a flex­i­ble paint and requires stiff boards; paint­ing on flex­i­ble media will cause cracks to form and chips of paint to fall off.

Wor­thing­ton paint­ed the Druid­craft Tarot images on care­ful­ly pre­pared wood­en boards paint­ed with lay­ers of ges­so, cre­at­ed from fine­ly ground white chalk and ani­mal glue, which were then sand­ed smooth. Egg-tem­pera dries quick­ly, and pro­duces a smooth, rich mat­te fin­ish when it is dry.

The Druid­craft Tarot, Philip and Stephanie Carr-Gomm (Authors), Will Wor­thing­ton (Illus­tra­tor), St. Martin’s Press, Revised edi­tion (March 2019), ISBN 10: 1250307422

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We’re pleased to release the lat­est episode of our pop­u­lar orig­i­nal series on the Tarot: “Tarot @ Teatime”, on the air Thurs­days and Sun­days at noon and 4pm Pacif­ic Time/SLT, 8pm and mid­night in the UK.

Episode 22
In this episode Hon­ey and Wil­low take a jour­ney through more of the Major Arcana and dis­cuss the his­to­ry and sig­nif­i­cance of cards XII The Hanged Man, XIII Death, XIV Tem­per­ance, XV The Dev­il, and XVI The Tower.

Sources men­tioned:

Smith-Waite Tarot Deck Cen­ten­ni­al Edition
https://www.usgamesinc.com/Smith-Waite-Centennial-Tarot-Deck.html

Arthur Edward Waite, The Pic­to­r­i­al Key to the Tarot. ISBN 978–0‑91386–608‑5. Avail­able from US Games Sys­tems, Inc. and book sell­ers everywhere.
https://www.usgamesinc.com/The_Pictorial_Key_to_the_Tarot_Book.html

Caitlin Matthews, Untold Tarot: The lost Art of Read­ing Ancient Tarots, Shif­fer Books (2018), ISBN 978–0‑7643–5561‑5

The Druid­craft Tarot, Philip and Stephanie Carr-Gomm (Authors), Will Wor­thing­ton (Illus­tra­tor), St. Martin’s Press, Revised edi­tion (March 2019), ISBN 10: 1250307422

The Wild­wood Tarot, Mark Ryan (Author), John Matthews (Author), Will Wor­thing­ton (Illus­tra­tor), Ster­ling Ethos (June 2011), ISBN-10: 1402781067

Missed any episodes? Catch them on our Mix­Cloud feed!

We’re pleased to release the lat­est episode of our pop­u­lar orig­i­nal series on the Tarot: “Tarot @ Teatime”, on the air Thurs­days and Sun­days at noon and 4pm Pacif­ic Time/SLT, 8pm and mid­night in the UK.

Episode 21

In this Episode Hon­ey and Wil­low dis­cuss some of the plants that are part of the imagery of the Rid­er Waite Smith Tarot deck, and explore their sym­bol­ic mean­ing and how they enhance the cards on which they appear.

Sources:
Arthur Edward Waite, The Pic­to­r­i­al Key to the Tarot. ISBN 978–0‑91386–608‑5. Avail­able from US Games Sys­tems, Inc. and book sell­ers everywhere.
https://www.usgamesinc.com/The_Pictorial_Key_to_the_Tarot_Book.html

Smith-Waite Tarot Deck Cen­ten­ni­al Edition
https://www.usgamesinc.com/Smith-Waite-Centennial-Tarot-Deck.html

Leah Van­derveldt web site:
https://www.leahvanderveldt.com

Missed any episodes? Catch them on our Mix­Cloud feed!

We’re pleased to release the lat­est episode of our pop­u­lar orig­i­nal series on the Tarot: “Tarot @ Teatime”, on the air Thurs­days and Sun­days at noon and 4pm Pacif­ic Time/SLT, 8pm and mid­night in the UK.

Episode 20
Using the images of the Rid­er Waite Smith Tarot deck, Hon­ey and Wil­low explore the next six cards of the Major Arcana: VI The Lovers, VII The Char­i­ot, VIII Strength, IX The Her­mit, X Wheel of For­tune, and XI Jus­tice. The evo­lu­tion of the card names and sym­bol­ism are dis­cussed, as well as pos­si­ble interpretations.

Missed any episodes? Catch them on our Mix­Cloud feed!

We’re pleased to release the lat­est episode of our pop­u­lar orig­i­nal series on the Tarot: “Tarot @ Teatime”, on the air Thurs­days and Sun­days at noon and 4pm Pacif­ic Time/SLT, 8pm and mid­night in the UK.

In Episode 19, Wil­low Moon­fire and Hon­ey Heart dis­cuss var­i­ous meth­ods for select­ing a sig­ni­fi­ca­tor card for a Tarot read­ing and also talk about read­ing reverse cards in a spread — or why one might choose to not read them.

Join us today, Fri­day, Octo­ber 29th, at Haunt­ed Hol­low, Chest­nut Hills in Sec­ond Life at 3pm Pacific/SLT — 11pm UK time — for a sec­ond LIVE edi­tion of our pop­u­lar orig­i­nal series on the Tarot, Tarot @ Teatime.

In this show, Wil­low Moon­fire and Hon­ey Heart will talk about cards in the Tarot that offer us a gate­way from where we are now to some­where new… per­haps a place we’d like to be. 

They’ll also dis­cuss cards that depict a tran­si­tion from one way of per­ceiv­ing our world and our expe­ri­ences to anoth­er; a change in con­scious­ness; a realization.

Join Hon­ey and Wil­low in the ground floor of the Mag­ick Shoppe off the square in Haunt­ed Hol­low, on the Chest­nut Hills region of Sec­ond Life — or tune in to Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio!

Join us on Fri­day, Octo­ber 22nd, at Haunt­ed Hol­low, Chest­nut Hills in Sec­ond Life at 11am Pacific/SLT — that’s 7pm in the UK — for a spe­cial live edi­tion of our pop­u­lar orig­i­nal series on the Tarot, Tarot @ Teatime.

The show will focus on the “Creepy” cards of the Tarot — the ones that make most peo­ple squirm with alarm when they are laid in a spread — and (hope­ful­ly) ame­lio­rate their scary factor.

Join Hon­ey Heart and Wil­low Moon­fire in the ground floor of the Mag­ick­al Shoppe off the square in Haunt­ed Hol­low, on the Chest­nut Hills region of Sec­ond Life.