The Art of Memory

The Art of Memory can be a confusing topic for beginners, but there are plenty of practitioners who have tried to make it simpler.

• Improving Memory Arts with U.S. Presidents is a guest post by Andrew B. Watt that discusses using the Art of Memory to memorize a very familiar list. It is a great place to get started!
• Giordano Bruno’s Art of Memory takes you through the writings and ideas of history’s most notorious memory wizard, Giordano Bruno.
• Pansophia and the Art of Memory is my introductory lecture on the topic and is a great way to learn the history and basics of the technique.
• The Magician’s Art of Memory teaches you how the Art of Memory can be incorporated into ritual and ceremonial magic, with techniques taken from Bruno’s books and ideas for how memory can impact magical work.

Combining our two favorite topics, here are some blog posts that teach how Tarot and the Art of Memory can be used together.

• Learning Tarot with the Art of Memory is a great introductory blog post that gets you familiar with some of the essential skills.
• The Tarot Memory Deck is a more advanced technique that uses the Major Arcana as a system of memory images.
• Using Tarot Webs to Understand Cards is a guest post by G. Conley that discusses a technique for using Tarot cards to connect ideas in your mind.

In addition, I have two on-demand classes about using Tarot and the Art of Memory together.

• The Minor Arcana focuses on using the Art of Memory to teach you how to read and remember the meanings of the Minor Arcana.
• The Major Arcana teaches some advanced techniques that not only help you remember the Major Arcana, but use Tarot cards to boost your other Art of Memory skills.

I am very fortunate to have had the opportunity to interview Scott Gosnell several times about his Giordano Bruno translations.

• Bruno and the Future is my conversation with Scott about his translations of Song of Circe and On the Composition of Images.
• Bruno, Machiavelli, and Savonarola is our conversation about Bruno’s art of binding and how it is connected to several very important Renaissance figures.
• On Giordano Bruno and Other Stuff is my first interview with Scott, and it’s on my old podcast, My Alchemical Bromance. The audio quality is probably bad, but I’m sure the conversation is great.