Tarot Card for the Equinox Full Moon: The Eight of Pentacles is Back
This week of Power, the Tarot asks us: how does our labor open our hearts wider to our spirituality? And does it embody loving kindness in the world?
Spring
Tarot Card for the Equinox, March 16-22, 2020: The Fool
Though the path ahead is uncertain and the days may be difficult, a new beginning is at hand. You are helping to shape it with every step you take.
Tarot Card of the Week: April 5-12, 2009
The FoolTwenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.— Mark Twain We welcome The Fool this week, only a … Read more
Tarot Card of the Week – April 12-18, 2010
For I am the Soul of Nature, who giveth life to the universe; from me all things proceed, and unto me must all things return; and before my face, beloved of gods and mortals, thine inmost divine self shall be unfolded in the rapture of infinite joy. — The Charge of the Goddess, by Doreen … Read more
Tarot Card of the Week: May 30 – June 5, 2011
To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world. ~ George Santayana Three Fours in a row! After receiving the Four of Pentacles two weeks ago, and the Four of Swords last Monday, the Four of Wands now appears … Read more
Tarot Card of the Week: June 20-26, 2011
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. ~ Cecil Beaton (photographer; stage, film and fashion designer 1904-1980) How very magical! After putting in his most recent appearance during the previous Solstice (Winter … Read more
Tarot Card of the Week: March 19-25, 2012 – Eight of Pentacles
Before enlightenment: chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment: chop wood, carry water. ~ Zen Proverb In this pivotal week of the Spring Equinox (or Autumn, for our friends who live below the equator), as well as a very important New Moon, I admit I was imagining we would receive a card of momentous portent. As … Read more
Tarot Card of the Week: April 30-May 6, 2012 – Four of Swords
As I am preparing to begin driving home this morning, I have pulled our card of the week in sacred space, but am only adjusting it slightly, to reflect the current energies, instead of writing a totally new interpretation. I hope you’ll understand. ~ B. Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat … Read more
Tarot Card of the Week, February 25-March 3, 2013: Judgement
The opportunity that the Divine One sends does not wake up those who are asleep. ~ Senegalese Proverb In this week that begins with the Full Moon in Virgo (Sun in Aquarius), for only its third time ever, the Judgement card comes to visit. I love this card, thanks in part to having been forced … Read more
Tarot Card of the Week, March 4-10, 2013: The Nine of Cups
What do we live for, if not to make the world less difficult for each other? ~ George Eliot As we enter this delicate cusp that is the turning of the seasons, with Equinox only two weeks away, we are visited by our jolly old friend, the Nine of Cups. The Nines of the Tarot … Read more