Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish. — Miguel De Cervantes This happy card is traditionally known as the Wishing Card. So make a wish this week, and if it comes from your genuine heart of hearts and pure intentions, you will most certainly see its happy fruition. The nines of the … Read more
The Four of WandsTo be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition. — Samuel Johnson Here’s one of the happiest cards in the Tarot, and yet another Wand this week! The Tarot’s fours focus on grounding, structure, and stability. But the Wands’ fiery energy of growth is not so easily contained. The … Read more
Today we remember those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for their homelands. May we honor them, not by continuing to glorify and worship war, but by learning to live in peace. The WorldThere comes a redeemer and he slowly, too, fades away;There follows a wagon behind him that’s loaded with clay.The seeds that were … Read more
Two of PentaclesBe here now. — Ram Dass It is interesting that the last time this card appeared, as now, we were also in a Mercury retrograde. Has it been as challenging for you as it has for me? In the Two of Pentacles, we see a young man dancing as he juggles his worldly … Read more
Five of PentaclesThe storm is threateningMy very life today.If I don’t get some shelterOh yeah, I’m gonna fade away.— Mick Jagger/Keith Richards We seem to be getting more than our fair share of fives, don’t we? Certainly not the happiest card in the Tarot, sometimes this card is called “the dark night of the soul.” … Read more
The Sun There’s a dark and a troubled side of lifeThere’s a bright and a sunny side tooThough we meet with the darkness and strifeThe sunny side we also may view Keep on the sunny sideAlways on the sunny sideKeep on the sunny side of life;It will help you every dayIt will brighten you on … Read more
The Tower Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.— John F. Kennedy The Tower, probably the least pleasant of all the Tarot cards, is our card this week. Although we humans are not usually fond of being struck by sudden, irrevocable change, sometimes it is as necessary to our liberation and growth … Read more
When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be — I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into … Read more
The Ten of Cups…Know that the seeking and yearning will avail you not, unless you know the Mystery: for if that which you seek, you find not within yourself, you will never find it without. — from the Charge of the Goddess, traditional by Doreen Valiente Bliss! Only a month after its last appearance, this … Read more
All human wisdom is summed up in two words – wait and hope. — Alexandre Dumas Père Following last week’s visit from the Six and with unsubtle timing during this early part of the harvest season (in the Northern Hemisphere), the Seven of Pentacles appears. As most people may be aware, seven is considered a … Read more