Seven of PentaclesPatience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. — SØren Kierkegaard We receive another seven this week, but it is not as conflicted as last week’s Seven of Swords. Seven is a number of magic, spirituality and initiation into a deeper level of Mystery. An earlier discussion of this … 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
The Six of Pentacles Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. — Albert Camus First, I want to note the importance of the timing for this card’s appearance, for it has never before been a Card of the Week. From financial expert analysis to astrological interpretation, the forecast is that we … Read more
Queen of PentaclesWe can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.— Gloria Steinem Once again, this week we receive a court card, indicating that there are important people that will be affecting us in the days ahead. Or perhaps this aspect of ourselves is going to be especially important. This week, the Queen … Read more
The Five of PentaclesThe mother of revolution and crime is poverty.— Aristotle Now, as we move into the deepest darkness of Yule this week, and so many of us are also getting into the holiday festivities, I was frankly hoping for a happier card. But instead, we are challenged by a card that has been … Read more
Nine of Pentacles We are stardust,We are golden,And we’ve got to get ourselvesBack to the garden. — Joni Mitchell, Woodstock We receive another nine this week. The nines of the Tarot are the cards of completion, with the tens being an overflowing of the energy of the suit. So this week, we move from the … Read more
The Ten of Pentacles And the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.— T. S. Eliot This week, we receive a card not seen since late 2007, a time when many of us were feeling much more financially stable. The Tens are the culmination … Read more
Nine of PentaclesTo be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.— Samuel Johnson This is a really fascinating coincidence (at least, for me!). Last week, I was invited by my dear friend (and Fairy Godmother), Bonnie Cohen, to give a brief presentation at her monthly soulful salon that she calls The Gathering. … Read more
What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible. — Theodore Roethke Appearing during the last Full Moon (that powerful lunar eclipse on New Year’s eve), now, on this week’s first Full Moon of the year and decade, we come back again to the same card – the Three of Pentacles. Connected closely … Read more
Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived. These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made … Read more