In The Beginning…
People ask me where the idea for The Tarot Mysteries series came from. Here’s the scoop. A long-time friend of mine in Santa Barbara passed away and I drove down from San Francisco to attend the funeral. As I passed the Earl Warren Showgrounds driving home afterward I thought of Sue Grafton and her wonderful […]
How Do Tarot Cards Work?
Tarot cards are just a collection of colored images on pieces of thick paper. How can pieces of colored paper possibly give someone information about the future? The short answer is: they don’t. But they do, when you’re trained to use them, trigger something valid but inexplicable, something that every tarot reader will tell you […]
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
In the late 1800s a trio of British Rosicrucians/Masons formed a society devoted to occult studies. The three men, Woodman, Westcott and Mathers, named their secret society The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The influence of this society drove an ever-expanding interest throughout Western civilization in pursuing spiritual paths that were not aligned with […]
Starting a New Tarot Mystery
I get asked — a lot — how I come up with a new story. The answer is pretty simple: I do research and the research tells me the story. Some years ago I was inspired to write a screenplay. I’d been an instructional designer and trainer for decades, during which time I’d written training […]