In the Cards

I was praying. Really, I was praying. Out loud. Something like this: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE GIVE ME A GOOD TAROT CARD. I didn’t even mean good in terms of Good News but one that I hadn’t seen lately or one that would be fun to write about. Nine of Cups guy: he’s not going to…

Okay. I like this one. Far as Swords go, I like this one. Calm. Stable. Calm stable woman. Big Heavy Sword. Two of ’em. Balance, balanced. Doesn’t need to see. It’s not that she’s been blindfolded. I mean, she has. But that’s not the important part to me. The important part is that she DOES…

That you are running away. That you are running away from. That you must run. And then I take a closer look and. He’s walking. She’s walking. He/she has a walking stick. This is not a run. This is… thoughtful. Thoughtfulness leave-taking thoughtful not a scamper no. We learn, when confronted with this card, that…

I am bummed. I am missing my meditation class. Just too much to do today and something about the weather. I know snow is coming and it just feels frigid and lonely to me. The air feels lonely. I didn’t want to take mass transportation (buses, ferries, trains) and feel all that freezing lonely. I’ve…

Aces, I think, are usually good news. Wands, fairly often, good news. Suit of PASSION and fiery red! And as I am fond of saying: Aces are POTENTIAL and possibility. Not a done deal, nope. An Ace is a maybe of opportunity, not a guarantee. A good start though, yes. In the Palladini deck, a…

Hmmm. Hmmm says the Four of Cups. The right to refuse. The I don’t wanna. That’s how we see many renditions of this card, but not always, and here I was hoping for a fun card, a sexy card. Nope! The Four of Cups ain’t that. But we’ll work with what we got. Cups are…

I like the number eight. A most fleshy and yet otherworldly number. Turned on its side, it’s the lemniscate, the infinity symbol. Straight up, it’s an hourglass. You can make love to an eight and… I don’t think you can say the same necessarily about a seven or a four, for example. Even though the…

Today I return to the Empress. Here are parts One and Two and Three so you can catch up. And this may be my last Empress post for now. I can’t keep away from her for long. She matters too much. * Things are going interestingly on my new YouTube channel. I am doing monthly…

Thus we continue with our continuing story of the Empress and Empress blogs, forsaking news of tomorrow’s Full Moon in Cancer although Empress and Full Moon and Cancer are all pregnant with possibility fertility creativity roundness fullness expectant beautiful. Hmm. Perhaps we should not forsake or forego at all but dive in. Tick tock. Dive…

Our series on the Empress tarot card continues thusly, revelations from this morning’s ferry boat ride. But, first, a story: In my previous post (the link is here) I discussed a reading I got the other day which was part Divination (from the Tarot) and part Shamanic Journey. It was exciting for me to hear…

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