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About Jamie:

I purchased my first tarot deck in my early 20s and, as a professional musician, it felt like several art forms colliding into one. Now, with the maturity that comes with age, my readings continue to grow with deeper and deeper meanings. I have developed a passion for sharing it, which is why I created this page. I have a deep appreciation for the art and history of the tarot and the desire to understand how tarot cards were read in its earliest beginnings, before the first written tarot books of the 17th Century — and how I can apply that to my day to day readings.

Now adays you will find me reading cards at La Lune metaphysical every Thrus. from 5 to 7, as well as other store events. I have also started MarylandTarot.com a Maryland based Meetup.com group where can meetup in person and socialize. I am also lining up other events so go to MyTarot.org for more details.

My Tarot (MyTarot.org)

So getting ready for the MyTarot Podcast, and looking forward to "The Fool", which will be our first one. So I love Shakespeare, have been the Musical Director for 8 plays, and seen every single Shakespeare play live. So I can't help but put on my Shakespeare hat when looking at the Tarot, and this time I am fixated on King Lear. It is well known that in this play there is a character called "The Fool". But in Shakespeare plays, The Fool is generally the smartest person in that play, full of witty puns and the one character who is allowed to always tell the truth. BUT for Tarot purposes there is there is Shakespeare's Edgar, who hides who he is by disguising himself as a the "Madman" called Poor Tom. Now THIS is the fool of the Tarot.
So Why do I enjoy tarot history so much. Because I am fascinated by original meanings. When The Fool card was created, were they thinking about Shakespeare's version of a Fool, all wit and banter? Or more like the raving madman portrayed by Edgar being "Poor Tom"? And what about the evolution of The Fool from the 17th century to today? The innocent? The person evolved beyond ordinary day to day considerations? And the dozen other "Keywords"?

Fool to Lear:
Now thou art an O without a figure.
I am better than thou art now.
I am a Fool. Thou art nothing.
(An O with out a figure is coincidently --- Zero, the number of The Fool.)

Edgar. […] My face I’ll grime with filth,
Blanket my loins, elf all my hair in knots
And with presented nakedness outface
The winds and persecutions of the sky.
The country gives me proof and precedent
Of Bedlam beggars, who, with roaring voices,
Strike in their numbed and mortified bare arms
Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary;
And with this horrible object, from low farms,
Poor pelting villages, sheepcotes and mills,
Sometime with lunatic bans, sometime with prayers,
Enforce their charity. (2.2.180–91)

The Pictures are:
Broadside Ballad on Tom of Bedlam | The British Library
The Visconti Tarot Fool
Grand Etteilla Fool
And the Rider Waite Smith Fool.

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So I kind of dropped off the face of the Earth without a word, and I want to apologize to all the kind people I may have let down. I did think about you all everyday, but was not in a frame of mind to be doing much of anything on line. So I hope you will for give me.

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So this is what I would consider the perfect representation of the modern Strength card