The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. ~ Alice Walker In the wake of the devastation in Paris, as well as the less documented but equally tragic attacks in several other countries, it is a joy this week to welcome the Queen of Wands. With her … Read more
For all of us, becoming indigenous to a place means living as if your children’s future mattered, to take care of the land as if our lives, both material and spiritual, depended on it. Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass My goodness! Here is a card we haven’t seen but once since 2008! And, as last … Read more
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. ~ Khalil Gibran From last week’s momentous invitation to leap into a new, unknown adventure, this week’s Four of Wands offers structure and harmony. The Tarot’s Fours … Read more
One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes Thank you to Diotima Mantinela for her newsletter this week, … Read more
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies. Robert F. Kennedy As we bid farewell this week to Winter in the northern Hemisphere, how splendid it is that The Chariot will carry us forward into the season of growth and light. Arthur Waite describes this card as “conquest … Read more
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt We have certainly been getting a run of Wands lately, and now to crown this brilliant week of the Leo New Moon, we welcome the Queen … Read more
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering. ~ Seneca (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century C.E.) This is certainly not the card I would wish for this week. After a … Read more
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. ~ John Quincy Adams In this important first week of Spring (or Autumn, if you live below the equator), featuring a Full Moon eclipse, we are graced with a visit from the King of Wands. Coming … Read more
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough. ~ Oprah Winfrey Here’s a card that we haven’t seen in a long time. Not that we’ve been missing him much. In Tarot numerology, the fours are about … Read more
I used to be indecisive; now I’m not sure. ~ Anonymous This week of the Sagittarius New Moon and a challenging Mars T-square aspect with Uranus and Pluto, we have a visit from the Two of Swords. The Twos are often about choices, balance, duality, polarity, and opposites. And the Swords in the Tarot are … Read more