Gabriel Robartes 

Hello! Writings about tarot, and related cultural and spiritual musings. Tarot reader for a very long time, reformed musician, charity worker.

I do love Chris’s posts.

None of It Was Glamorous
The Nine of Swords and Six of Wands - My Tooth Extraction Experience

If we shed the derogatory associations of the picaresque (the knavery and fecklessness, etc.), we are left with G.I. Gurdjieff’s description of ‘The Rascal.’ In essence, the rascal responds to life from her wits and, more importantly, as Gurdjieff saw her, through her conscience.

Traditional rules or laws don’t apply and are readily manip…

Secrets of the Picaresque

Oh this is fascinating! Always some new level of weirdness lurking in the Twin Peaks Akashic Records. As it were.

And today I learned that the Twin Peaks characters all had natal charts created for them, as part of Frost and Lynch’s writing process!!!

this reminds me of Fernando Pessoa, who created heteronyms, characters for his poetry, each of which had an actual natal chart.

It’s been a while! Work, illness, cats, family, christmas - everything has got in the way. Here’s an ‘out of print’ blog from a while back about using tarot in the course of the working day you might find of interest, plus a recent reading update!

Tarot for the Workplace

“The thing about a ‘no girls allowed’ treehouse is it doesn’t have any girls in it.” Provocative and convincing essay about how liberalism needs to stop denying agency to men drawn into the manosphere (they aren’t ‘drawn into it’ - they join it) and the lack of easy answers to all this toxicity vs the duty of at least trying to do someth…

Stories of Aquarius for Readers and Writers.

Okay! This is out - four views on the notorious Little White Book, by four very different writers ❤️

Including me!

For the Love of Guidebooks: 4 Tarot Enthusiasts Share Their Faves