Reconciliation is to understand both sides; to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and then go to the other side and describe the suffering being endured by the first side. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh Another visit from a red-winged angel this week! On the week of the … Read more
The foundation of justice is good faith. — Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BCE Our guide for this coming week is a powerful Major Arcana card. The Justice card represents justice and fairness and finding balance in all things. Justice is one of the three cardinal virtues represented in the Tarot. The others are Temperance and … Read more
The Buddha’s insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation of the middle way as being the very nature of unexcelled enlightenment. The middle way is an invitation to leap beyond nirvana and samsara and to realize the unborn Buddha mind right in … Read more
In summer, the song sings itself. – William Carlos Williams Once again, in this Year of the Empress, she appears as our card of the week. And what a week this will be! Of course, we are in the most lush season of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Summer is ripening, as full, fertile … 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
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
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
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular. — Tony Robbins (leadership expert) Having appeared for only the second time ever at Samhain, the threshold of … Read more
Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring. – Henri Frederic Amiel (Swiss writer 1821-1881) We seem to be on a roll. Except for a … Read more
Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith. ~ Mahatma Gandhi This week, we’re back to the Majors again, with a card we’ve only gotten once before. This week, we are called upon to embrace Strength. The lion is a universally understood symbol of … Read more