To discover the heart is the greatest initiation. ~ Inayat Khan, founder of the Sufi Order in the West In this powerful week of the Full Sagittarius Moon and Lunar Eclipse, we receive yet another message from the Major Arcana to slow down, refrain from pushing and allow things to be what they are. Sometimes, … Read more
It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to. ~ Bilbo Baggins, via J.R.R. Tolkien For only the second time since I began these online readings in 2004, and both being this year, … Read more
Don’t confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself. ~Paulo Coelho Our visits from the Major Arcana cards resume this week, this time with a rare visit from The Hierophant. Since Dec. 27, only two cards of the week have not been either … Read more
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. ~ Cecil Beaton (photographer; stage, film and fashion designer 1904-1980) How very magical! After putting in his most recent appearance during the previous Solstice (Winter … Read more
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. ~William Blake Visiting us again, after its recent appearance at the first harvest of Lughnassadh, we welcome the Seven of Pentacles as the deepening energy of Samhain’s final harvest approaches. It is also the week of the Full Moon in Aries. As most people may be aware, seven … Read more
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