The Amethyst Oracle : Divination with a Queer Twist

Yoav Ben-Dov died suddenly at the beginning of Dec, 2017. In honour of this man and the amazing work he did and effect it had on so many paople, The Amethyst Oracle is replaying our show from Aug, 2014, featuring an interview with him.

The Amethyst Oracle is excited to welcome this month's guest, Yoav Ben-Dov, physicist, philosopher, Tarot reader and suthor of the book, Tarot : The Open Reading. Yoav presented his first workshops in the United States at the beginning of August, and Charlie and HiC were fortunate enough to attend and have the opportunity to sit down with him in conversation. Join us as he talks with us about his version of the Tarot de Marseile, the intersection of Tarot and physics, his approach to doing readings called The Open Reading, studying Tarot and psychomagic with Alexandro Jodorowsky, and more.

Yoav Ben-Dov was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, and spent a part of his childhood in Ethiopia. He studied physics and philosophy of science in Tel Aviv University, and did his doctorate in Paris-13 University on the philosophy of quantum mechanics. Yoav Ben-Dov has lectured for 18 years in Tel Aviv and other universities. He is the author of the first Tarot book in Hebrew (1981) and studied Tarot and psychomagic with Alexandro Jodorowsky in Paris in the mid-1980′s. He restored and published the CBD Tarot de Marseille (2008-2010), and in 2013 published the book Tarot : The Open Reading.