The Snake: The Wild Unknown Animal Spirit

Following in the continuation of moving through each card in the Wild Unknown Animal Spirit deck, we now move to the Snake in the seventh position. Before we get to far down into what the Snake symbolizes, let’s first put some flesh on the skeleton of the 7 in numerology. Seven’s are the philosopher or […]

How to Work with the Three Rows of the Major Acana

I have been mentioning for a while now that I was going to make a blog post devoted to the three rows of the Major Arcana and how to work with them. Well here it is! The Majors are cosmic, liminal, ethereal, and universal archetypes. This can make them hard to read at times, because […]

Oracle of the Dragonfae deck review

Card 1: Melusine Artwork by Jimmy Manton The Oracle of the Dragonfae was the first oracle deck that I ever put into my deck collection. I remember it so well. I was in the store Goddess Isis, a well-known metaphysical shop right in the heart of Denver on iconic Broadway. I was in the store […]

The Mouse: The Wild Unknown Animal Spirit Deck

Following in order of the guidebook, and the cards in the Earth element, we are now working with the third card: The Mouse. The first card we had was the Bear, the card that wakes us up to inner strength, and our need to move into the light. The second card was the Earthworm, the […]

The Earthworm: The Wild Unknown Animal Spirit Deck

In this second post on the The Wild Unknown Animal Spirit deck, and in following the order of the guidebook, we are working with the Animal Spirit of the Earthworm. Don’t be so quick to potentially write this card off as lesser than the Bear, our first card and introduction into the deck as a […]

4 Ways to Work with Crossroads for the Modern Witch

4 Ways to Work with Crossroads for the Modern Witch If you open any book about spellwork, rituals, or metaphysical practices, chances are good that at some point you will come across the archetype, idea, and physical place that is the crossroads.  Crossroads are significant for a variety of a reasons: Crossroads represent where possibilities […]

Card of the Week: Reversed 6 of Cups

The energy to focus on last week was self-investment and even perhaps self-preservation. Now that some of that energy has worked itself through the mind, body, and spirit the energy shifts now to the Reversed 6 of cups. Upright, the six of cups represents the young and wild parts of our lives. The parts that are illuminated […]