Waiting is. ~ Valentine Michael Smith Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein This week, we step back from the intensity of all the Majors we’ve been getting, which is just as well, since the astrological forecast for this week has enough drama to go around. The threes in the Tarot are the expansion … Read more
The Wheel of the Tarot speaks the Law of Love. ~ MacGregor Mathers, co-founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn For the first time in about eight years of pulling a card each week, we are visited by a card whose absence, one might have thought, would be glaring. This week, we welcome … Read more
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. ~ Rumi For the third time this year, we receive a visit from the Two of Cups. Why is it being so insistent with its message of friendship, heart connection, and alliance? Is the third time the charm? This is … Read more
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. ~ Albus Dumbledore (via J. K. Rowling), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets In this powerful threshold week that brings a Full Supermoon and the beginning of the astrological New Year, as the Sun moves into intense Aries, loaded … Read more
What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world. ~ Albert Einstein We have a rare and auspicious visitor this week, as The Magician comes calling for the first time in over two years. The Magician is the initiator of consciousness, awareness, and action. He is the realization … Read more
Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter, Little darling, it feels like years since it’s been here. Here comes the sun, here comes the sun and I say it’s all right… ~ George Harrison, The Beatles, Abbey Road Yet another Major Arcana this week, and one we haven’t seen since January of 2008. … Read more
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. ~ Francis Bacon When I first pulled this card, my immediate reaction was, “Huh? What does this say, if anything, to the Magician/Uranus/ennui discussion we’ve been having?” Indeed, the Six of Cups, by its nature, is a puzzler. As I have noted … Read more
Life has left her footprints on my forehead. But I have become a child again this morning. The smile, seen through leaves and flowers, is back to smooth away the wrinkles, as the rains wipe away footprints on the beach. Again a cycle of birth and death begins. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh For people with … Read more
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. ~ Rachel Carson It’s been a while since we got a Court card, and what a … Read more
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world. ~ Eckhart Tolle This week a card appears that, in all these years, has only visited twice before. The Ace of Pentacles represents all the potential and power of the Earth, for the Pentacle is a magical tool that is … Read more