Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived. These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made … Read more
The King of CupsThis is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. — His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) This week, we have our first ever visit from the King of Cups. The … Read more
Six of Pentacles To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives. — Jean-Paul Sartre Having just turned up back in July, the Six of Pentacles returns and shows us a picture of resources given and received. We could call it a portrait of charity. The Pentacles deal with the literal, physical, material … Read more
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy power which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates… — Percy Shelley So far, this seems to be a year in which many of our new … Read more
The Ten of CupsThe foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;the wise grows it under his feet. –James Oppenheim (1882-1932) What a joyous card, and how sweet to see it this week, in a world weary with cynicism, contentiousness, and sorrow. The Cups, of course, are the suit of the emotions, and tens are the … Read more
The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now spilled in the world. — Ayn Rand This week, we have the somewhat rare return of the Two of Swords. … Read more
Give up all bad qualities in you, banish the ego and develop the spirit of surrender. You will then experience Bliss. — Sri Sathya Sai Baba This week, we welcome the powerful Major Arcana image of The Hanged Man. In my introductory Tarot classes, The Hanged Man is always one of the top choices for … Read more
Death Death don’t have no mercy in this land. — Rev. Gary Davis (1896-1972) And so, this week, Death comes calling. Personally, I have spent the last three weeks sitting with Death – two deaths that have broken my heart. Of all the cards that could have spoken to us this week, it is the … Read more
Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains. — Kahlil Gibran Now as we in the Northern Hemisphere stand upon the threshold of Winter, embraced by the darkest of nights, we are visited this week by the Five of … Read more
In the human heart there is a perpetual generation of passions; so that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another. –François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) This week’s card is not going to be easy or enjoyable. Especially for the “sacred cows” that we hold dear; the ones that we expect to … Read more