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
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
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
Seven of Cups If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. — Henry David Thoreau This week, we move from Summer to the Autumn Equinox. It would appear that as we do, there are many choices vying … Read more
The Moon That moon which the sky never saweven in dreamshas risen again bringing a firethat no water can drown See here where the bodyhas its houseand see here my soul the cup of love has made the onedrunkand the other a ruin.— Rumi In the ancient Greek lunar calendar, the days during this week’s … Read more
Five of PentaclesThe storm is threateningMy very life today.If I don’t get some shelterOh yeah, I’m gonna fade away.— Mick Jagger/Keith Richards We seem to be getting more than our fair share of fives, don’t we? Certainly not the happiest card in the Tarot, sometimes this card is called “the dark night of the soul.” … Read more
The MoonI climb to the tower-top and lean upon broken stone,A mist that is like blown snow is sweeping over all,Valley, river, and elms, under the light of a moonThat seems unlike itself, that seems unchangeable,A glittering sword out of the east. — William Butler Yeats This week, strangeness and possible illusions may be in … 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
Nine of SwordsThere is no grief like the grief that does not speak. — Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Nine of Swords is obviously a card of sorrow, and the anguish we sometimes feel in our dark hours alone. This card often speaks to our suffering on behalf of those we love, not just our own pain … Read more
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy power which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates… — Percy Shelley So far, this seems to be a year in which many of our new … Read more