Working my way through stacks of saved magazines and newspaper clippings, I reached a 1997 copy of Yoga Journal. It fell open to a centerfold that seemed for a moment like the very essence of serenity.
I had never heard of Charles Belyea, and despite the fact that I know…
I’d hoped that writing about Tarot on Medium — in a serious (but not boring!) way would open up the topic for a broad spectrum of readers. That’s not going to happen.
But a few people (not quite 100) have followed Perspectives on Tarot, and others have also read and…
Tracing the history of Tarot so far, we have looked at three stages: the “Historical Tarot,” from around 1450 to 1750, the “Esoteric Tarot,” from 1750 to 1880, and “The Makers of Modern Tarot,” 1880 to 1925.
During the Historical period, the Tarot trumps appeared mysteriously in Italy and were…
What is “Self-Synchrony”?
Briefly — that feeling you have when:
I can’t tell you how to get there — everyone has their own path. But I can offer a visual aid that I thought of one day…
The toy typewriter pictured above resembles one I played with probably in first grade. You turn the dial to a desired letter and press down to print it (the keys don’t actually work).
Before that unit, I had a rubber-stamp alphabet that could be used to put words on paper…
I’m still trying to fathom the extent (and intent) of Suzanne Treister’s Hexen 2.0 project, but I’ll tell you what I’ve figured out so far. Beginning with — these comments from a 2013 New York Times review of the Hexen installation, then showing at a New York gallery:
The British…
New Trump Project Restores True Meaning of “Great Books”
It’s often overlooked that Donald Trump — though not a “humanitarian” in any usual sense of that word — is indisputably a “humanist,” cut from the Renaissance mold. …
Briefly: The Beat movement flourished during the 1950s, beginning in New York and spreading to California, where it converged with what’s now known as the San Francisco Renaissance. …
To be honest — I did not see this coming.
And that’s because I failed to notice when the Dior/Tarot convergence got started in 2016. And as turns out, much has happened since.
But let’s start with a genuine milestone in Tarot history: the 2018 resort collection, in which Dior’s…
Writer at large, Ph.D. in interdisciplinary humanities. Persistently curious! Creator: “The Constance Project,” and Dreamfish Press. cynthiagiles.com
