The Ten of PentaclesAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time. — T.S. Eliot Not since June of 2005 has this been my website’s Card of the Week. Rachel Pollack notes that this is one of the “Gateway” cards, which would be appropriate … Read more
The Devil“No reason to get excited,” the thief he kindly spoke,“There are many here among us, who feel that life is but a joke.But you and I, we’ve been through that, and it is not our fateSo let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.”— Bob Dylan Now, as we enter the … Read more
DeathShe changes everything She touches andEverything She touches, changes. – Kore chant, by Starhawk From last week’s The World, to Death today. Seems like heavy times are afoot. You may have noticed I am ridiculously late with my post today. That’s because I have spent the whole morning struggling with the interpretation of this week’s … Read more
The Hierophant“All things, oh priests, are on fire . . . The eye is on fire; forms are on fire; eye-consciousness is on fire; impressions received by the eye are on fire.” — Buddha How interesting to pull this card for the first time since I first began writing up the card of the week … Read more
The Devil“I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.”St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) Recently, a small, family-owned restaurant here in central North Carolina was intimidated into canceling a special event they had planned. Based on their experiences at similar offerings in New York, they had planned to offer … Read more
JusticeLate breaking update: A comment by astrologer Eric Francis is particularly relevant:Jupiter, Pluto and the Galactic Core have completed their extremely rare conjunction. We learned a lot the past few days, and much of it (in true Jupiter style) has involved law and justice. Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of … Read more
The EmperorContemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections; so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways. — Akhentaton (1380-1362 BCE) Now this is interesting! Here is one of the very few cards that has never yet come up since I began pulling our Card of the … Read more
StrengthLet me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. — Rabindranath Tagore The Strength card appears this week for the first time as my card of the week, which I have been offering on my website since early 2005. As always, the timing seems ideal. The lion is … Read more
The Hanged Man The greatness of a man’s power is the measure of his surrender. — William Booth This week, we are graced for only the second time by this powerful Major Arcana image. The Hanged Man is one of the most misunderstood cards by novices to the Tarot. In a recent class I taught, … Read more
The Devil “It is easy — terribly easy — to shake a man’s faith in himself.To take advantage of that, to break a man’s spirit is devil’s work.”— George Bernard Shaw What can I say? I am certainly not thrilled to pull this card today, and was sorely tempted to draw again. I can make … Read more