[Faith-talk] discussion regarding tarrot and astrology

[Brandon A. Olivares]

Jorge,

I have never been able to find any accessible cards out there. I used to braille label them, but that makes the deck too thick.

Now what I do is use labels from Digit-Eyes, though you could use something like the Pen Friend as well. Then you scan each label and record the name of the card. After that it’s simple to shuffle the deck, pull a spread, and scan each card to see what it is. With Digit-Eyes, it takes me only a few seconds to scan the label and get the description. Best of all it doesn’t make the deck very thick at all, so it will still fit in most pouches made for Tarot decks.

Astrology is a bit harder. For that, you have to find a way to manually look at an Ephemeris. An ephemeris is a table of all the planetary positions by date. Astrologers generally look at a chart, but you will not be able to do this, unless you have partial vision and can make the chart big enough. But I have no vision. So what I did is downloaded an API called the Swiss Ephemeris. It can only really be used by programmers to include in astrological programs, but I’m a programmer so I made an interface for it. I can plug in a birth date, time, and location, and pull up a table of each planet and its position in the zodiac, as well as house position, and calculated aspects to other planets. I’d be happy to give you access to this script.

If you want to learn Tarot and astrology, I’d be happy to teach you. I’m in the process of writing an ebook on the Tarot, which also goes into depth about the root of Tarot, including astrology and the Qabalah. I’m well-versed in astrology, Qabalah, Tarot and astrology, so would be able to teach you anything you need to know. I just did this with someone else and they became quite talented at Tarot as a result. There’s a lot of information to absorb, but it’s really not that hard.

On Oct 12, 2014, at 8:41 PM, Jorge Paez via Faith-talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> You have a good point.
> I guess my first question is, are you totally blind?
> And if you are, what did you do to modify the cards?
> Did you label them yourself or is there an accessible card deck?
> Also same thing for astrology.
> I'm planning to learn both, so I'm curious how other blind/visually
> impaired people do it.
> 
> 
> Brandon:
> 
> 
> On 10/12/14, Doris &Hubby Chris via Faith-talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> I am christian, probably considered moderate by some. I also believe
>> that Jews, Muslims and Christians believe in the one true God  and
>> can as such pray and study scripture together.
>> 
>> I do not practice nor believe in astrology and believe it is
>> unbiblical. However many Christians  also here in my country have
>> superstitions they believe in.
>> 
>> Discussion of other faiths does;does not bother me as long as it remains
>> civil.
>> 
>> thanks much.
>> 
>> Doris
>> 
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