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
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
Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter, Little darling, it feels like years since it’s been here. Here comes the sun, here comes the sun and I say it’s all right… ~ George Harrison, The Beatles, Abbey Road Yet another Major Arcana this week, and one we haven’t seen since January of 2008. … Read more
Thou art the joy of all joyous things Thou art the light of the ray of the Sun. Thou art the door that is open in welcome, Thou art the surpassing Star of guidance. – Gaelic prayer (from the Alexander Carmichael Carmina Gadelica collection, arranged by Lisa Thiel) What a gift to receive this card … Read more
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
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
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
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw In this week of the powerful New Moon in Leo, and as the political powers of the United States play “chicken” with the global economy, The Chariot rides up and beckons us to get up and get … Read more
Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness. ~ Amy Lowell (1874-1925) The unprecedented string of Major Arcana cards continues. This week, strangeness and possible illusions may be in store, for our card is The Moon. If we see the trumps in terms of a progression of the soul’s … Read more
The Circle is Cast. We are between the worlds And what happens between the worlds Affects all the worlds. (traditional Circle casting) This week, our reading brings a message as profound as anything I have ever seen in all my years. First, the rather shocking string of Major Arcana cards continues. Maybe I shouldn’t be … Read more