Hark, now hear the sailors cry, Smell the sea and feel the sky Let your soul and spirit fly Into the mystic. — Van Morrison Another Eight this week, and a rare one, too. The Eight of Cups appears for the first time in about four years, bringing with it its many mysterious implications. In … Read more
Give up all bad qualities in you, banish the ego and develop the spirit of surrender. You will then experience Bliss. — Sri Sathya Sai Baba This week, we welcome the powerful Major Arcana image of The Hanged Man. In my introductory Tarot classes, The Hanged Man is always one of the top choices for … Read more
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. — Albus Dumbledore (via J. K. Rowling), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Somehow, I am not surprised to see the Seven of Cups make a somewhat rare appearance this week. With his back to us, we see a … Read more
The Six of Cups The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. — Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974) This is an enigmatic card, to say the least. Many Tarot … Read more
Six of Cups The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. — William Wordsworth It is always interesting to see what the cards are going to tell us about a week when so many of us will be stepping outside of our ordinary routines. … Read more
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. ~ Francis Bacon When I first pulled this card, my immediate reaction was, “Huh? What does this say, if anything, to the Magician/Uranus/ennui discussion we’ve been having?” Indeed, the Six of Cups, by its nature, is a puzzler. As I have noted … Read more
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. ~ Rachel Carson It’s been a while since we got a Court card, and what a … 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
Hark, now hear the sailors cry, Smell the sea and feel the sky Let your soul and spirit fly Into the mystic. ~Van Morrison As hundreds of my colleagues traveling from around the world gather this week for the annual Tarot Readers Studio in New York, it appears we are being guided by another Eight. … Read more
We’re after something that lies beneath all [the] noise, something literally un-thinkable, something that is not so much communication as it is communion — a felt language; a silence filled not with emptiness, but with presence. ~ Gregg Levoy, Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life From The Magician, who brings the flash of consciousness … Read more