Crossing Into Samhain’s Dark, October 26-Nov. 1, 2020: Five of Pentacles
In this week, arriving at the mighty gateway of the year we call Samhain, we are given a visitor of darkness, but a vivid instructor, nonetheless.
In this week, arriving at the mighty gateway of the year we call Samhain, we are given a visitor of darkness, but a vivid instructor, nonetheless.
Your sacred gifts are like no one’s before you, or that will ever be again. Light your lantern and shine with the peace and clarity we so surely need.
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. ~ Arundati Roy Only a month after her last visit, and for an unprecedented fourth time in a year, the Queen of Wands comes calling once more. If you would like a more traditional analysis … Read more
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing. ~ Antonio Porchia, poet (1885-1968) Here at the threshold of the year, the magical doorway of Beltane in the Southern Hemisphere, and the final harvest and ancient Celtic New Year of Samhain in the northern … Read more
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson How delicious this juxtaposition of Samhain and this week’s visit of The Sun is! One … Read more
In this Full Moon week, the Tarot inquires what patterns are you ready to discard? What final harvest for this magickal year are you now gathering in?
The Tarot offers a benevolent gatekeeper for this week of Samhaintide. For the Wise, wishes are holy if they are authentic and from our loving heart.
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 Three of WandsA vision is not just a picture of what could be;it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter (American business speaker and consultant ) In the numerology of the Tarot, threes are the expansion cards, the creative growth that comes from the … Read more
The Chariot In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves…self-discipline with all of them came first. — Harry Truman For the first time in all these years of my posts, we are visited by The Chariot. How perfect that it appears this week, as we … Read more