January 2012

The Edge of Transformation

by Beth on January 31, 2012

A silver apple falls. There, amongst the branches, the mother sits. Weaver of dreams against the weft of the wood, Insight falls like gentle rain on a moon-bathed garden. – Song to Hecate, by Alison Jones Now we make ready for the great festival of Imbolc, sometimes called Candlemas or Brigid. In many places, the [...]

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Tarot Card of the Week: Jan. 30 – Feb. 5, 2012 – The Fool

by Beth on January 30, 2012

In order to risk, we have to be willing to look bad. We have to be willing to be a sucker. We have to be willing to look like fools. ~ Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way After a hiatus of several years, during this magical week of Imbolc, The Fool returns. The Fool is all about [...]

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Goddess Sundays: Brigid

by Beth on January 29, 2012

Brighid of the Mantles encompass us Lady of the Lambs protect us Keeper of the Hearth kindle us Beneath your mantle gather us And Restore us to memory. ~ from An Invocation to Brighid, by Rowan Fairgrove In addition to declaring this year a celebration of my fortieth anniversary as a Tarot reader, I am [...]

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Poetry for a Saturday in Winter

by Beth on January 28, 2012

The Gardener of Eden from Packing Up for Paradise: Selected Poems 1946-1996 by James Broughton (1913-1999) I am the old dreamer who never sleeps I am timekeeper of the timeless dance I preserve the long rhythms of the earth and fertilize the rounds of desire In my evergreen arboretum I raise flowering hopes for the [...]

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Beginning a Year of Celebration

by Beth on January 27, 2012

With the New Moon and the beginning of the Year of the Water Dragon, I am launching a year of celebrations, in honor of it being my fortieth anniversary with the Tarot. I bought the deck I featured on Wednesday back in 1972, and it was true love from then on. I’d had a fling [...]

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Wordless Wednesday – Celebrating 40 Years: My Original 1972 Deck

by Beth on January 25, 2012

 

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Tarot Card of the Week: January 23-29, 2012 – Seven of Cups

by Beth on January 23, 2012

Blessings of the New Moon in Aquarius! Gung Hay Fat Choy – Happy New Year! We welcome the Year of the Water Dragon! (and Happy Birthday to my favorite Aquarian in all the world!)   I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and [...]

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Preparing for a Powerful Aquarius New Moon

by Beth on January 22, 2012

How is your New Year going?  Have your good intentions slipped a little?  Wishing you could get a new start now, instead of on the tail end of holiday exhaustion?  Well, your wish is granted!  It’s New Year’s Eve, again! Tonight, in the wee hours of 2:39 a.m. (Eastern Standard Time), Jan. 23, we celebrate [...]

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Happy Birthday, Aquarius!

by Beth on January 20, 2012

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ~ Abraham Lincoln, Sun in Aquarius Happy Birthday to all the free spirits and visionaries of this iconoclastic sign, for they are pointing the way to the turning of the Age for us all. Aquarians are true originals. They love to think outside [...]

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Tarot Card of the Week: January 16-22, 2012 – The World

by Beth on January 16, 2012

Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world; The heart has its beaches, its homeland and thoughts of its own. Wake now, discover that you are the song that the morning brings; The heart has its seasons, its evenings and songs of its own. ~ Eyes of the World, by [...]

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