If you are going through hell, keep going. ~ Winston Churchill This week, we are faced with yet another challenging lesson from the Tarot. The Five of Pentacles is one of those cards that often comes up as a least favorite in my Tarot classes’ games of “Good Card, Bad Card.” Understandably so. The fives [...]
by Beth on April 29, 2013
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellow. ~ Moliere (1622-1673) In this week when we will celebrate the Greater Sabbat of Beltane, we receive another Six, but this time the Earthy Six of Pentacles. The Pentacles deal with the literal, [...]
by Beth on April 22, 2013
Action is the foundational key to all success. ~ Pablo Picasso In this week that brings us an eclipse of the Full Scorpio Moon, we are visited by the same card that most recently appeared during the last Lunar eclipse. We welcome the Six of Wands. In it, we see the hero of the battle [...]
by Beth on April 15, 2013
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. ~ Albert Einstein This week, we need to stay on our toes and pay attention to important messages, because that fierce, smart, sometimes naive youth, the Page of Swords, has come to visit. Arthur Waite summarized this card with the word, “vigilance.” What enemies are nearby? Is there real [...]
Waiting is. ~ Valentine Michael Smith Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein This week, we are offered one last chance to launch our New Year’s new beginnings and hopes for 2013. This week of the Aries New Moon is a blend of the Aries astrological New Year’s energy with the dark moon’s seed-planting [...]
Whether you tend a garden or not, you are the gardener of your own being, the seed of your destiny. ~ The Findhorn Community We receive another Pentacle this week, but unlike the King from the past two weeks, it does not necessarily point us to a literal person. Welcome this week to the Seven [...]
by Beth on March 18, 2013
Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. ~ Epicurus We have another strong personality this week, as, like last week, a court card comes calling. For only the second time in these eight years of pulling my weekly cards, to help us celebrate the Equinox holiday of Ostara, let us welcome [...]
by Beth on March 11, 2013
There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Flying like wind in the dark of this New Pisces Moon, riding the prelude to the turning of the seasons, the Knight of Swords bursts onto the scene. As [...]
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 [...]
by Beth on February 18, 2013
Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God. ~ Ram Dass This week, which promises lots of transition, potential agitation, and possibly even “sequestration,” the Six of Swords comes calling. Tarot scholar Rachel Pollack notes that this Six is [...]