Practical Wisdom for Extraordinary Living
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
— Haruki Murakami
After our gifts of Grace and healing from the past couple of weeks, we are faced now with the Three of Swords. Since we so recently received it, you can read my more traditional interpretation here. But today, in part because less than ten minutes after [...]
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Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it’s all written there.
– Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
For the third week, we get a visit from the Cups suit. But this time, we [...]
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When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be — I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into [...]
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Hark, now hear the sailors cry,
Smell the sea and feel the sky
Let your soul and spirit fly
Into the mystic.
– Van Morrison
Another Eight this week, and a rare one, too. The Eight of Cups appears for the first time in about four years, bringing with it its many mysterious implications. In her classic work, Seventy [...]
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;
Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Elegiac Verse
As we emerge from the quiet days of Imbolc, we are being awakened by the Eight of Wands. The eights of the Tarot are about abilities, self-directed action, and [...]
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What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
– Theodore Roethke
Appearing during the last Full Moon (that powerful lunar eclipse on New Year’s eve), now, on this week’s first Full Moon of the year and decade, we come back again to the same card – the Three of Pentacles.
Connected closely to the greatest [...]
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When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.
– Edward Paul Abbey (1927 – 1989)
This week, we have a rare visit from the Page of Wands, a Court card. Neither as dramatic and spiritual as the Major Arcana’s big life lessons, nor as pragmatic as the actions, moods, and [...]
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Forget your opponents; always play against par.
– Sam Snead
Here’s a card that hasn’t turned up in several years. In the past, it has appeared at times of strife, and sometimes when there is a spotlight on some kind of intense, even cutthroat competition. In a week that brings us, at minimum, a Solar Eclipse, [...]
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Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
– Golda Meir
Oh dear. What can I say? I was probably as disappointed as you to have this be our first card of the new year. I am rarely tempted to “cheat,” but I admit that [...]
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Three of Pentacles
As the season of believing seems to wind down, let me gently remind you that many dreams still wait in the wings. Many authentic sparks must be fanned before passion performs her perfect work in you. Throw another log on the fire.
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
What message arrives for us as we [...]
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