Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. — Zen Proverb This week we have yet another visit from the Three of Pentacles. This is its fourth appearance in 2010. In a year fraught with high drama, it keeps showing up, as if to keep us grounded as we make the … Read more
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing. – Ralph Waldo Emerson This week, we will celebrate the New Moon that … Read more
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. ~ Desiderius Erasmus (1469-1536) Happy New Year! We receive an auspicious beginning for this new year and the powerful New Moon of Capricorn with a visit from the Ace of Wands. After the time-out-of-time winter holidays, so perfect for reflecting on the waning year and for … Read more
In summer, the song sings itself. – William Carlos Williams Once again, in this Year of the Empress, she appears as our card of the week. And what a week this will be! Of course, we are in the most lush season of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Summer is ripening, as full, fertile … Read more
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. — Kahlil Gibran This week, we are faced with yet another challenging lesson from the Tarot. This is one of those … Read more
Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were … Read more
Grab your coat and get your hat Leave your worries on the doorstep Life can be so sweet On the sunny side of the street. — Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh, 1929 After the rather dismal challenges of last week’s card, I am especially delighted today to tell you that we have a visit this … Read more
Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity. — Daniel Burrus, business strategist, futurist and author Judging from our card today, this Samhain week is likely to be a busy one. As you may know, the Wands are about action, will, manifesting, creativity, and transformation. Fives are often about conflict and imbalance. So … Read more
There’s a blaze of light in every word It doesn’t matter which you heard The holy or the broken Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah. ~ Leonard Cohen For only the second time since I started posting my Card of the Week back in 2004, this week we are visited by what I consider the second … Read more
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. — General Norman Schwarzkopf Did you ever play “King of the Hill?” You know then, that as soon as you are the winner, you are the one under attack. So, perhaps, our King of Wands … Read more