Starman Tarot Kit

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He continues: "I remember him telling me that my art and designs were truly incredible. He described them as ‘Potent Visual Alchemy’. Strangely this didn’t fill me with any great satisfaction or sense of triumph. Instead, it simply felt as if time had caught up with itself. This event – his words – happened in 1973 and it had taken twenty years for the reality to catch up: time is simply a mechanism to stop everything happening at once. In a sense, no matter what the world threw my way to counter it, this meeting had already happened."

When reading the tarot, it behooves us to remember that the Fool or the Sacred Clown's spirit, travels each card, twisting things around, and turning them "upside down" and/or on their head. I love the light embryos in the Ace of Swords below! I also love how The Chariot is pulled by two comodo dragons and how the King of Wands is wearing a crown of thorns like another well-known visionary whose resurrection we recently celebrated. I adore the write-up in the Starman Tarot guide book for The Chariot which happens to be my Tarot Year Card in 2019 – Very insightful! ARE YOU READY TO DISCOVER... EMPOWERING ANSWERS - ENRICHING OPPORTUNITIES - NEW DIRECTIONS - EFFECTIVE ACTIONS A Tarot reading is a magical, intuitive and liberating process. I work directly with my own Starman Tarot. A reading seeks to uncover the source-patterns that are flowing through your life. I treat each session as a sacred act, taking great care to ensure that all my clients leave a session with effective and positively-focused action steps and understandings of the dynamics playing out in their situations and circumstances. Basically, the benefits of a reading play out across all aspects of your life, helping to you to live more fully and openly. The space surfer, haloed Prince of Cups makes a reference to Hamlet and ‘To be or not to be’ and the 6 of Cups is super easy to read as sentimentality and reaching for the past. And the Ace of Wands is just stunning. It’s so beautiful it hurts. I could just look stare at it for ages. This is how I feel the Ace of Wands energy. I have never looked at another Ace of Wands Tarot card and been able to say that before.

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Having grown up in east London’s Walthamstow, De Angelis is now based in Bali, where he lives "a fruitarian lifestyle" (yup, that means he only eats fruit), and as well as his art and design work spends "a lot of time working with energy and movement practices". Bowie looked at the young boy’s art and said to him: "I can see clearly you are an artist. Can we draw something together?" De Angelis explains: "Bowie and I are now sitting together in an off-world realm, far from the illusion of Soho. We are drawing together. We find a conclusion in the drawing and I hear myself asking Bowie if I can one day create something for his record sleeves." Take a look at the 7 of Wands. “Why is he holding his position on a crumbling and unstable pillar?”“What is his real focus?”“Why the hexagrams?”“Why does he look relatively unscathed even though there’s so much chaos around him?”“Why do I see the bird, that the book describes as a vulture, as an eagle and what does that mean?” I could go on but I won’t. I’ll start to answer one of my questions. Maybe approaching the situation I’m asking about as an eagle can help overcome the “vultures”. Or maybe something has run its course and it’s on its last legs and the eagle perspective will make that clear. Or maybe getting caught up in the bird in the first place is a distraction and I need to maintain focus.

He is the creator of the global bestselling Starman Tarot and produced art, designs and campaigns for some of the most innovative companies and leaders in the world, including Apple, Virgin and Sony. The essence of a new understanding and evolution of human consciousness that is guided/instructed/inspired by a facet of the Divine we can all the Starman. You can think of him/her.I remember watching an interview with Bowie describing how he used what he termed the William Burroughs technique to create lyrics, which was basically allowing a stream of consciousness to flood through, then chopping it all up and rearranging the words to make weird, new sentences. This captured my imagination: basically the idea that there was a force greater than us somehow at work in the universe, kind of like the mysterious Chi in Eastern philosophy and martial arts. What was the process of setting briefs and collaborating? Was he hands on? Or did he just let you do what you wanted?

A lot of artists and designers seem to be drawing their own Tarot at the moment, why do you think that is? Are we looking for guidance in troubled times? While some of the images on the cards clearly depict a man or a woman, some of the characters are ambiguous as far as which sex they are. I love this because it reflects David Bowie’s gender-bending persona. Just as importantly, for me anyway, this is in line with my own personal philosophy that it doesn’t matter whether you are a woman or a man, you have both masculine and feminine qualities that you can tap into.When I was 15 I became fascinated with Shamanism, and in particular, the realm of hallucinogenic shamanic plant medicines was rich in symbolism. I did my first peyote journey at seventeen and this profoundly changed how I viewed life. ST:Connect directly with my creative spirit. It should be fairly straightforward since we forged that connection in dreamtime already. Do not doubt this connection! ( The Starman / Magician) Ultimately for me it is about 'revelation'; to reveal something that makes people go 'oh wow, that’s a new way of seeing this'. For me beauty is an inherent quality of our reality; it is this quality that helps us to travel through life, to feel connected to something vaster than our own small story. ST:That you dust yourself off and try again, every single time you feel you have ‘failed’ in any way. I demand creative courage. I will keep pushing you to move past any self-limiting beliefs and comfort zones. ( 3 of Wands) The 18th Path is called the House of Influence (by greatness of whose abundance the influx of good things upon created beings is increased) and from the midst of the investigation the arcana and hidden senses are drawn forth, which dwell in its shade and which cling to it, form the cause of all causes."