0ctavias Tarot and Spiritual Lenses

Fortune Telling 

The A to Z of Fortune Telling

For aeons people have tried to predict the future, whether for themselves or for others, and so many methods have been employed that it will never be possible to give a complete A to Z of the subject. Of course, many of these methods would be highl...

Taot Decks 

My Favourite Tarot Decks

My lens for The Map of the Tarot had become far too long and had been sidetracked into a lens mainly of Tarot Decks (I had no idea I would be adding so many) so this is the first lens which grew from that original. These are my favourite Tarot deck...

Tarot for the more advanced

The Tarot decks displayed below are those I consider not best for a beginner. Some have additional cards to the deck, some have renamed many of the cards and some are just plain 'different' enough from the normal Tarot so as to make them a...

Choosing a Tarot Deck for Beginners

Choosing your first Tarot cards can be a daunting task and, judging by the number of unused and barely used decks for sale on sites like eBay, it seems to me that most buyers are overwhelmed by the choice available, frequently selecting decks which...

More about Tarot 

Cleansing and Charging Your Tarot Cards

Many of the Tarot decks I have were bought second hand and, just as there are always new styles of deck coming in, many Tarot decks are long out of print and only available second hand. Of course, on some of the internet auction sites you can from...

Aliester Crowley

A very controversial figure for many years, Aliester Crowley has perhaps only relatively recently begun to claim his rightful place among occult authors and practising occultists of every kind. Much of what he wrote and said, as with some of his be...

Getting to Know your Tarot

In Cleansing your Tarot I started to talk about getting to know your Tarot and I want to expand on that in this lens. There are many ways to start getting to know your Tarot cards, these are some suggestions which may help you. The Tarot is an anc...

The Map of the Tarot

In this and my other lenses on Tarot I will offer some advice on the use of the Tarot, starting from the position that the reader knows nothing of the nature of the Tarot cards. This lens is intended to promote The Map of the Tarot, use of which wi...

Life before Life

From my earliest childhood I was aware that I was more than just what makes this physical form and a great many of my past life memories - for I have no doubt this is what they are - have been with me for as long as I can recall. Not everyone belie...

Psychic Experiences

Do you believe we all have the ability to communicate on a psychic level? I have to confess something straight away, I have always known this to be fact. I know there are many who will argue with me and that's all good. I ask doubters to be op...

Debunking Prehistory

I've been saying this for years but it's time I said it far more publicly. There is a great problem with so-called experts in many fields but in archaeology in particular, the 'experts' really get up my nose, it seems there is not o...

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0ctavias_Group-ography

If you have quite a few lenses you'll discover that they start hiding from you when you're looking at that long list on your dashboard. First, I started my lensography which does help me find my lenses when they're hiding but as the num...