"Ritual as Punctuation": our guest blog at Tarot Elements.

"A wheel of fortune (hereafter called the reference wheel)."
—Management Science, Vol. 24

Our interview about the intricacies of the Punctuated Tarot may be read here.

See our guest blog at Bonnie Cehovet's place, in which we reexamine one of Bonnie's personal card readings in the light of our Punctuated Tarot.

The Tilde gives a letter a liquid sound.
—John Wilson, A Treatise on English Punctuation

"I slipped over to the gardens and to the Lover's section."
—Once Upon A Time In Berbice

In what we call "Divinatory Sentences," Tarot cards form the basic parts of a sentence and are "read" as a single statement. Of course, the divinatory sentence could follow any pre-determined structure -- the noun could very naturally be the significator, for example. The point is simply to create a structure for the cards to communicate their message.

"The Saints' days marked between brackets [ ], are not appointed by the Church."
—Charles Walker, A Prayer Book for the Young

"She sees the sun like a bullet."
—Sue Walker, The Critical Response to Flannery O'Connor

"For like a double dagger, it may stab both ways."
—Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 1913