Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were … Read more
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. ~ Elie Wiesel (writer, activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor) For only the second time in all these years of my posts, The Chariot rides into our weekly reading. This is exquisite timing, for during this very week, we … Read more
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. — General Norman Schwarzkopf Did you ever play “King of the Hill?” You know then, that as soon as you are the winner, you are the one under attack. So, perhaps, our King of Wands … Read more
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted. ~ David Bly This first full week of the magical New Year, we are visited by yet another Page, the third since the week of Autumn Equinox. Hail and welcome to the Page of Pentacles. The Pages in the Tarot … Read more
Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened. Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other … Read more
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? – Mary Oliver We are now moving deep into the season between Samhain and Yule, the time of the cycle of death. So it is no surprise that this week, the Death card of the Tarot comes calling. Ironically, … Read more
That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. – Proverb The Nine of Swords is obviously a card of sorrow, and the anguish we sometimes feel in our dark hours alone. This card often speaks to … Read more
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. – Denis Waitley What a profound gift for us during this Thanksgiving (in America) week! After the challenges of last week’s visit from Death, the appearance of the Ten of Cups … Read more
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either. — Friedrich Nietzsche Back for another visit, the Six of Pentacles appears on this New Moon 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 world, and the … Read more
We hear voices in solitude we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts we get under no other condition. – Amelia E. Barr For only the third time in all the years I’ve been posting my Card of the Week, we are visited this week by The Hermit. … Read more