Ace of Wands
Ace of Wands from the Rider-Waite Tarot We have come to our last Ace! Moving alphabetically through the suits, the Ace of Wands rounds out our understanding of the Aces within the tarot, and the role that they serve in starting us off into the Minor Arcana. I hope that after this blog, and reading […]
Ace of Swords
Ace of Swords from the Rider-Waite Tarot Next in the tarot deep dives is the Ace of Swords. So far, we have done a deep dive into the Ace of Cups and the Ace of Pentacles. I encourage you to go back and read those blogs, or listen to the podcast episodes, as you will […]
Ace of Cups
Ace of Cups from the Rider-Waite Tarot The deep dives are officially in the Minors, and the Majors have been completed. Now, we move on to the cards that meet us at the ground floor, and may be more immediately present or understood in our lives. If the Majors represent “As Above,” then the Minors […]
Cards of the week: 4 of Swords and The Elder
“I know you wait for me / at a place I am always seeking. / You are as real as the changelings / in my favorite books, have the tenderness / of the sea on a calm day, and all / the patience of the long invisible.” ~ Linda Pastan In an Unaddressed Envelope […]
Card of the week: Reversed Father of Cups
“In the mountains, where the pines bend and sigh like my swans. / At the table, where the teapot presides like my swans, over all lesser things. / My swans were sharp and hungry as desire, and I fed and forgave / them too.” ~ Veronica Patterson Where are My Swans? Last week, […]
Card of the week: 8 of Cups
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.” ~ Sylvia Plath One of the positive aspects from the energy of the 3 of Swords is the ability to confront the demon sitting on the precipice between the void and the light. After we have engaged and […]
Card of the week: Reversed 3 of Swords
“Godless, our minds / did monster us, left us bobbing as in a swamp / until we sank.” ~ Leave a Message Mary Karr One of the harsh realities about this card, this energy, is the inevitable and profoundly simple aspect of loss. This is the human card that we all have to pull from […]
Card of the week: Son of Swords
“We gather words that shape seasons. Time-and-place, turning/ earth: Diurnal, heliotropic. Wax and wane. / Front, equinox. Constellate.” ~ Becka Mara McKay When we have taken down morsels into the opening of our bellies we can start to move on our plans. We are able to create new intentions with strategy and purpose. […]
Card of the week: Mother of Pentacles
“Mother, maybe you are a night house / whose orange- yellow light can cheer; / whose blankness, chill. / I want to ring the bell / but who will I wake? Who / will appear at your door?” ~ The Living Portrait Kathryn T.S. Bass There was a rebirth last week, a flame that lightly […]