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Tarotscopes for September 7 to September 12
Sep 7th
The long weekend here in the US has us looking at the tarotscopes this week a day behind; for this week we’ll be looking at Tuesday through Sunday with the cards. I have gone back to working with my current favorite deck, the Gaian Tarot. I also felt drawn to work with reversed cards this week so you will see those annotated with the Rx next to the cards pulled. This week is all about building, growing and creating foundations for the future. It’s going to be a week to start making change and progress, or at the very least, creating the important ground work for change or various kinds in the near future. We always look to the fall season, which is rapidly approaching, as the time of harvest, and rightly so. But we sometimes forget that in the harvest there also comes a time for growth; growth from our experiences that brought us to the harvest and the growth to come as we prepare to clear things away for another planting season in the future. This week be sure to take time to honor your growth and foundation for other big changes you’d like to see in the future.
Tarotscopes for Tuesday September 7, 2010 through Sunday, September 12, 2010
Aries The Canoe
This week you’ll find that, whether you want to or not, it’s time to get moving on some project or plan that has been sitting somewhat stagnate for a while. Make no mistake about it, you have your work cut out for you, but you’ll find there will be others willing to help you, especially if you are willing to put out the vibe that you would like some assistance. Don’t rush through but instead take the time to get a look at the bigger picture in the process and know that moves you make this week will be ones that shall have a big impact on where you’ll see your work go next.
Taurus Seven of Earth (Rx)
Delays may be possible this week as you try and get new plans or projects to take root. These delays could very well be of your own doing because of some impatience and a desire to hurry things along to their later stages before they are truly ready. This week you’ll want to take time to slow down, letting yourself be patient with everything, especially with yourself. Giving yourself and others around you a little breathing room and letting things flow in a more organic sense will bring you better results down the road where as rushing things will easily stunt the growth of your hard labor.
Gemini Six of Fire (Rx)
During the week you may find that the best use of your energy is to keep it in a low and contained state. Whether it’s been a wild three day weekend behind you now or the fact that Mercury Retrograde is coming to its end and you had a tough time with it this time, you’re certainly burning out and probably feeling it in more ways than one. Rather than push yourself this week, work to rekindle your inner fire by surrounding yourself with people who refresh and replenish you rather than those that you find draining. Give yourself time to relax and recharge this week.
Cancer Six of Earth (Rx)
Every now and then we may find that we are in a position where, financially, we just can’t be as generous or giving as we might like to be. And then there are times where the lack of generosity goes from necessity to habit. Do you have resources that you have been keeping all to yourself and not sharing with others when you easily could with comfort? This week look and see what you have in abundance that you could share with your local community. It doesn’t have to be cash but maybe extra canned or boxed food in the kitchen that could be donated to a food drive or clothes you no longer wear that a homeless shelter could use. Take a moment to find what you have that you no longer need and share it with those who could use a helping hand.
Leo Ten of Air
Letting go of emotions, ideas, and plans that have either been weighing you down or keeping you from moving forward will finally be at a point where they can be released and positive change will begin to make its way into your life. No matter how dark or difficult things may have been in the past you’ll now finally feel the clouds part and see a path forward. This week you may at last start to feel that sense of relief and peace that you’ve been looking for by easily being able to let go of something that was so hard to release previously.
Virgo Five of Fire
This week you may find yourself a little challenged to keep tempers and frustration in check. Remember that quite often fear can be misdirected as anger towards the person or situation causing us stress. Be sure that, before you potentially explode in anger or rage, that you check your emotions and see who or what it is that you are really angry at. In may just be that something has you nervous, scared, or caught off guard. You may find that the problem is a long time fear or concern that you just haven’t fully addressed. Let the people and situations that raise these emotions this week serve as mirrors to reflect your true feelings for you, and do your best to stay calm and in control.
Libra The Moon (Rx)
A concern or worry that has been nagging at you over the last few weeks may finally become too much to deal with and you may find your mind assuming the worse for lack of evidence to the contrary. You may find yourself especially suspicious of others this week, feeling they are keeping something from you. If you feel really off this week with these things know that often what seems scary and fearful in the twisted shadows of night become harmless in the light of day. You may find yourself in too dark of a place to see that light so ask a trusted friend or family member to help sort things out with you in hopes of an outside opinion being all you need to see things more clearly.
Scorpio Child of Fire
There are some great opportunities for fun and laughter coming your way this week, especially if you’re willing to break out of your shell and your routine a little more than normal and really try something new. The Child of Fire is willing to get out there and take a risk to try something different and discover more about themselves and the world around them. This week take a chance and do something you never do on a normal week. Go rock climbing, go to a karaoke bar and belt out a Whitney Houston song no matter how bad you think you sound. Do something daring and keep in my the old saying “Dance as if no one were watching; Sing as if no one were listening; And live each day as if it were your last.”
Sagittarius Three of Earth
Working hard at things that really matter and taking pride in the results will be an underlying theme for you this week whether that means taking on a special task at work or making things seem extra nice at home this week. You’ll find that things will not only work out smoother but also have better final results by working with others who are also looking to see the same goals meet a positive end. A group effort may bring out more ideas and future opportunities as well, especially if you find yourself able to work with close friends. Be sure to keep thing light while working and take time to toast to a job well done at the end of the day.
Capricorn Four of Earth (Rx)
Have you ever stopped and wondered what the difference is between collecting something and hoarding something? Sometimes there can be a real fine line between the two and this week will be a good time to try and see where you may fall in the frame of things here. When we hoard we have the mentality of either willingly wanting something all to ourselves or we may feel that we’ll never have enough of something to sustain ourselves for a period of time. What might you be hoarding in your life? Take time this week to begin that too often over-looked idea of fall cleaning and get a jump on clearing things in your home that you truly don’t need. Donate or sell what is taking up space in your life and make some breathing room for yourself for the coming fall season.
Aquarius Three of Air (Rx)
It’s not uncommon to find that from time to time we get caught in a web of negative thought or even a state of depression. Sometimes we know exactly what triggers this and that makes it easy to find a way to change things around when we are ready and able. But we do go through bouts of having no clue why we just have the glass half empty days. If you find this week that you can’t break free of some negative thinking start keeping a gratitude journal to help you remember what you have to be grateful for and to open doorways to binging in more positivity and abundance into your life. All that you write about serves as positive thoughts and as you send them into the Universe you will begin the process of reprogramming that negative thinking and soon you’ll see things in a whole new light.
Pisces Seven of Water
Making decisions this week may seem quite difficult and complicated especially if more and more options are being presented to you. It’s important to make sure that this week, especially in this winding down of Mercury Retrograde, that you take the time to do your homework before making any final decisions. Once you do make a decision fully embrace it and take it on with gusto. At that point there’s no sense in holding back and changes are you’ll have made the best, most informed choice possible that will lead you to where you need to go.
Have a great week everyone!
Enrollment is now open for “In The Cards”
Sep 3rd
This is just a quick post to let everyone know that enrollment is now open for my 8 week tarot course, “In The Cards”. The first class will be assigned on September 27th and all enrollments must be completed by September 24th to ensure everyone is settled in for the class. As I’ve explained before, this is a class for everyone, whether you are brand new and just got your first deck or if you’re someone that’s been working with the cards for a few years. Anyone that is interested in reading tarot for themselves or for others will be able to gain some useful and interesting new knowledge and techniques from this course. The class is designed to have you reading with confidence by the end of the eight weeks for both yourself and for other people, mostly people you likely don’t even know because you’ll be working with other students in the class. You can find all the details about the class and about the enrollment process by visiting the enrollment page at my website RowanPendragon.com. And, as always, if you have any questions, please drop me a line and I’ll be more than happy to answer any questions you might have!
Tarotscopes for August 30 to September 5
Aug 30th
This week I thought I would take a sort of “back to basics” approach with doing the tarotscopes and I found myself pulling out the Universal Waite Tarot Deck
Tarotscopes for Monday August 30, 2010 through Sunday, September 5, 2010
Aries Ace of Cups
After a somewhat emotional and draining few weeks you may find that this week, for the first time in a while, you’re feeling as though your proverbial loving cup of emotions is so full that it’s running over. Be open to possibility of using this week and this feeling of emotional fullness and balance to repair and smooth over any problems that developed over the past few weeks with friends and loved ones and know that you’ll always have “up” times like these after you’ve been down. Don’t dwell on the things that are in the past now and just move forward with a loving and grateful heart.
Taurus Page of Cups
Help may come from an unlikely source this week, especially when you’re not looking for it. The seas may seem a little rocky this week but someone who may be younger and more of a quiet “in the background” type comes to your aid with support and love when they see you’re struggling. Your challenge will be accepting that support without questioning their motives or their ability to truly help you without you being condescending to them because of their age or perceived lack of experience in life. This person will surprise you in more ways than one!
Gemini The Emperor
You’ve come to a point now in your path where it’s time to start looking at other ways to handle situations that may challenge you from a less “head first” perspective. Rather than going into everything with brute force intending to overpower others you’re dealing with, it’s time to consider more logical, planned, thought out action. This week, rather than dealing with things with a solider mentality, running in to do battle, do things from the place of an emperor as someone who knows how to do battle and who’s been through the war before but who’s gained the wisdom and knowledge to deal with their opponents from a more peaceful angle. Take the higher road this week in arguements and struggles with friends and coworkers and you’ll feel better about things in the end.
Cancer The Empress
This week is a great week to take a moment to sit back and enjoy to things in your life that bring you true happiness, especially family and friends. It takes a lot of work to keep families and groups of friends together and happy and you have a natural ability to nurture these relationships in your life. Not everyone in your life might need this sort of tending to and you may not always feel driven to be the one that holds things together, but when you are in the mindset of wanting to care for those around you in a “motherly” way you give it all you’re got. So it’s about time you sit back and just enjoy these relationships and all they give to you in return. And if this week you have kids going back to school, feel proud seeing them off and know you’ve done the best you can to prepare them for this next page in their lives.
Leo King of Wands
Fire and passions will ignite this week, especially in the creative mind, but you’ll need to be willing to actually put in the time and effort to making them provide something tangible. Sometimes it can be so easy for us to just sit back and come up with some great ideas for things that we would like to do or wonderful plans for the next great invention that the world needs, but if we don’t actually get up and do something about it the idea itself is useless to us. Make sure that if you find yourself coming up with some great idea that you just can’t seem to push aside this week that you do something with it and make something happen rather than sit on it letting it go nowhere. Let your natural, bold and fiery Leo nature give you that push to do what you need to do.
Virgo Five of Pentacles
There’s a reason that the poor often stay poor and the rich get richer and it comes from their mental projection of their circumstance. This week try and keep in mind the basic ideas that often come into place with the Law of Attraction; you get back what you put out there, especially in the way of thoughts. If you think yourself poor, you make yourself poor. If you think you never have enough to be happy or comfortable, then you’ll find that no matter what you never feel like you have what you truly need to be happy. You can easily begin to turn your luck and fortune around by letting your mind put the right vibes out there and then the Universe with follow through with what you think into existence. It’s not an easy transition to make, but it’s one that you will find, once you get into the habit of doing, you will begin to see and feel the results of.
Libra The World
Things that you have been working away at are finally going to start to come to fruition and to an end that will give you a little bit of a reprieve, at least long enough to catch your breath before the next big thing comes along to occupy your mind and time. There may be a few small glitches in the process of this during the week, especially if getting paid for something you’ve been doing is part of the closure part of things this week (be prepared for a possible delay there). Even with any delays you’ll find that your efforts will be rewarded well and that you will really feel like you’ve done some great work to be proud of.
Scorpio Strength
Don’t be surprised if you find yourself having to be the one that does the most work and take on the most struggles this week both at the workplace and at home. If you’re dealing with kids going back to school this week you can be sure that they will be anything but helpful around the home; at work you may find that everyone is a bit distracted and they turn to you for a little extra help and support. You’ll do fine with all of this but you may begin to feel that by the end of the week you need someone to come in and help you stay upright because you’ve stretched yourself so thin. Being strong also means knowing your limits so if you have to say no to someone, don’t feel guilty. Just know that you’d be of no use to them anyway if you pass out from exhaustion.
Sagittarius King of Swords
You have the power to really do a lot of good this week with really well placed words and thoughts, especially if you find yourself in a position where you have to be the one to moderate a problem in the workplace or be the one to keep things from exploding in a heated situation with friends. This week you’re power of calm control and rightly placed words will be key to preventing a possibly explosive situation from being set off. It’s important to remember that having your feet firmly planted on the ground and keeping your head out of the clouds this week will keep you able to see things from a clear perspective and that will help you to really see just when you may be needed to help out those around you this week. You’ll find that being fair and logical will be the best approach but don’t allow yourself to be too cold or too calculated. Listen to your emotions as well and let your intuition guide you a bit as well, but know that in the end it’s your ability to really sort things out and put everyone in order that will be at work here.
Capricorn Page of Swords
This week you might find yourself feeling a bit frustrated with those around you, especially in situations where you are doing what you believe to be is your best at asserting yourself and trying to get your points across in a kind and congenial way. The problem is it’s possible many people really don’t take you seriously, especially in the given situation you may find yourself in, because in the past you may have done a good job at distancing yourself from similar things or seeming as though you don’t care about the outcome. So, for example, if this is the week you decide to step up at work and take charge of a department meeting when every other week you’ve shown up late and spend the whole meeting with your nose buried in your phone sending emails and text messages, don’t be surprised that nobody really jumps up to listen to what you may be trying to say. Let this be a sign for you for the future and begin to show your interest and emotions instead of always trying to be the impartial observer.
Aquarius Queen of Cups
Over the course of this week it might be helpful for you to spend time reflecting on your emotions and how your emotions impact you on a deeper level, especially when it comes to your health. Our emotions can really have a big role in whether or not we recover quickly from an illness or injury. We also know that we can easily fall into illness when we let negative emotions and stress rule our lives. If you find yourself feeling extra tired this week, run down and like you’re starting to feel sick, take a little time to think about how you’re doing emotionally and pay attention to any cues you may get from that. It’s possible that a stressful situation at work or in a relationship is just draining too much energy from you and by clearing away any negativity tied to that and turning your emotions around into a positive direction could bring you to a healthier you as well.
Pisces Two of Cups
Sometimes we can give and give and give to someone really close to us and it seems that they are never quite satisfied and they still come looking for more. This can be in the sense of help in the physical world, like the friend who’s always asking to borrow money or who seems to only ever ask for you a ride, or it can be in the way of emotions because somehow you’re the only one who could possibly ever understand this person and their problems. Giving and caring for those around us is an important part of life but you need to remember that the give and take of a relationship should go both ways, not one person always giving and the other always selfishly taking. This week you may find yourself in a position of having to reevaluate a close friendship because of these very issues. You may find that putting a little distance between you both for a time will help but you may end up needing to end the relationship altogether. Don’t feel bad and know that you need to care for yourself too! Your life can’t always be about the needy people around you.
Have a great week everyone!
Tarotscopes for August 23 to August 29
Aug 23rd
Happy last full week of August everyone! Can you believe it!?! When I was getting down the dates for this week’s tarotscopes I was in absolute shock to see that August has just about completely passed us by! And to think it’s been a whole month since I was in New Orleans! It feels like just yesterday. So the month is flying by, Mabon is quickly approaching here in the Northern Hemisphere and we’re in the beginnings of a Mercury Retrograde that started this past Friday. All I can say is many of these things show up in this week’s tarotscopes. I also decided to do something a little different this week. I’m working with a deck that I haven’t worked with for the tarotscopes yet, Norbert Lösche’s Cosmic Tarot (the image to the left is the High Priestess card from this deck). I decided while getting them out that this week I would work with traditional reversed cards. Usually I don’t work with reversed cards and instead, if a card comes out reversed, I take that into consideration when reading it but I don’t automatically assign anything specific to it, like a specific upright verse reversed meaning. But for today I have and they have been noted by the Rx next to the card name.
Tarotscopes for Monday August 23, 2010 through Sunday, August 29, 2010
Aries Two of Swords
This week you’re mission is to pick your battles. At least, if you want to get anything done, you’re going to need to make some choices. You can easily sit and be distracted by other things this week and you’ll find that it will be simple for you to get pulled into doing something other than what’s on your already overcrowded “to do” list. However, if you take the time to decide what needs to get done and prioritize what you have to do there will be a better chance of you getting something productive done.
Taurus Queen of Swords
You mind yourself thinking back fondly on the past, especially past relationships, looking for ways to bring some of the passion and joy of the past into your life now to spice things up a bit. The Queen of Swords can often come to us to remind us that we might be getting a bit too serious, maybe a little sterile and boring, especially when it comes to love. In many of the stories of the tarot this Queen is the lonely divorcee or widow, so seeing her can be a reminder that if we make a few changes we wont end up in the same state as her. Take time this week to make room for love and fun, even if you have to move mountains to do it.
Gemini Nine of Swords, Rx
If the last few weeks have had you feeling a bit stressed and feeling like things were never going to slow down so you could take a break, this week should provide a bit of that room that you have been in need of. A time of anxiety and non-stop motion is coming to a slow end and you’ll begin to feel this as the week moves on. This is especially good for you with the current Mercury Retrograde going on since the last thing you’ll be looking for this week is to add more stuff to your plate during a time knowing for complications to pop up. Take this time and use it to rest and get your head on straight again and don’t fight the urge to take a name or veg in front of the TV. You’ve earned it.
Cancer Three of Wands, Rx
You may find yourself feeling somewhat stuck or blocked, both creatively and spiritually this week, and you may find that you point this feeling inward blaming yourself for this lack of flow. Don’t fall into this trap and instead, consider that there could be others around you either holding you back or projecting their own lack of balance and creativity onto you. Is there someone around you that might get a little jealous at things you create, whether it’s a beautiful piece of artwork or a really nice Sunday dinner? Do you have family over and find that, no matter how hard you try to make things perfect, you have that one person that is always looking for something to criticize and ruin your day? These people are the ones that you need to distance yourself from for the time being, this week especially, so that you can refocus and find your flow once again.
Leo Ace of Wands, Rx
Your creative work, ideas, and projects are at a point where you’re still working to grow and develop them, but you may be in a bit of a hurry to get them out there into the public realm, looking to share your work with the world. Whether this is something that you’re doing on the side, like a creative writing project, crafting a line of jewelry or something else that you’ll be marketing to the world, or if it’s something related to work like a project proposal, be sure that you’re excitement for what you have to offer others isn’t pushing you to work too fast. You may find that what you think is perfect and ready to be out on the market is actually still in it’s infancy and needs some work. Better to take your time and perfect your work than rush and find yourself having to redo things later.
Virgo Five of Wands
This week you may find yourself a bit on edge around certain people in your life, especially those that you may work with in some capacity whether it’s at your job or on some sort of volunteer committee or in some other group. Certain people may push you in a way that often causes you to feel that you have to compete for attention or compete for praise; this could also be someone that makes you feel that you just have to compete to be heard! If you find yourself challenged by a few people in this way, remember that you need to keep your cool otherwise, when you are heard, you may say something that isn’t going to do you any good. Rather that let this person or persons get you agitated, use this sense of competition as a way to push yourself to do more and do better, but do it with grace.
Libra Judgement, Rx
This could prove to be a bit of a sticky week for you, one where things from the past could come to sort of “haunt” you. If you find that this week you feel as though past decisions are coming back to effect you now, whether ones that might not have been made with the best intentions or ones that may have been made when you weren’t thinking clearly, don’t beat yourself up over them and don’t feel that you have created a terrible hole for yourself. Instead, focus on how you can bring things back into balance. What karmaic issues may be connected to your past decisions and how are they impacting things now? Can you find a way to easily work with them and make amends? Even if this means using the old “write a letter but don’t send it, burn it” trick in order to set things right with someone from your past that you have no contact with currently, you are still putting the energy out there and creating some balance. Just remember that nothing is ever completely set in stone and your path can always be changed.
Scorpio Eight of Wands, Rx
You know how some people find that Mercury Retrograde impact them in such a way that they almost go into hiding during the whole 28 days of the cycle while everyone else wonders what the heck they’re doing? This week you may find that you learn a little bit about why some people react that way. This is going to be a week of delays, missed opportunities, and unfortunate mishaps. This is not going to be the week for planning anything big and definitely not a good time to plan to sign any contracts, make any major purchases or do anything really big that could be considered “life changing”. This will be a great week for looking into these sorts of things more, though. If you are planning on buying a new car, for example, rather than running down to the dealership and making the purchase this week, do a little more research into the car you’re looking at and maybe do a little shopping around for a better price. If you’re thinking of looking for a new job, this week would be a better time to double check that your resume and references are tip-top rather than pounding the pavement. Take it easy and try to just go with the flow as much as possible.
Sagittarius Two of Cups
One of the most important things that we have in our lives besides our family are our friends. Whether you have 100 good friends or 3 really close ones, it doesn’t matter. They are important and special people in our lives that deserve to know we love and care for them in a very special way. This week, take time to honor and appreciate your friends in a way that you maybe haven’t recently. We all have busy lives and things can get away from us, but it’s always important to keep our friends close to us as best we can. Give a close friend a call this week and make plans for a night out for dinner and conversation; make plans to reconnect in some way that will be meaningful for both of you that will help you to remember just how special this relationship is for you both. Close friendships, especially ones with best friends, are like marriages in a sense; this person is someone we are committed to and who we stick with for better or for worse. Like marriages, they need to be kept fresh and alive.
Capricorn Queen of Wands
The Queen of Wands can be a very enchanting woman, a Queen among queens who really stands out and shines above all else. This week the Queen of Wands reminds you that you too can shine and be the sparkle in someone’s life if you really wish to be. The Queen of Wands and her creative energy and her ability to keep people captivated is something that we can all use from time to time. Is there something coming up this week where you’ll need to be the center of attention? Is there someone that could use a little cheering up this week through your shining personality? You may find this week that you are the one that has to be “on” and has to pull from their creative minds to uplift and entertain those around them. You can do this because we all have the power to wield her wand if we’re willing to put ourselves out there and take the risk.
Aquarius Eight of Pentacles
Over the course of this week you may find that you’re both thirsting for knowledge and looking to show the world what you have learning so far. Knowledge and education, whether for personal enrichment, career advancement, or traditional school learning, are all important aspects of our lives. When we stop learning we stop growing. But, at the same time, it doesn’t do us any good to gather information and never put it to use or share it with others. This week take the time to find ways to share your skills and knowledge with others while adding to this storehouse of wisdom. Learning more about yourself and your area of expertise though teaching someone else. So whether it’s teaching your teenage kids how to change their own tire, showing a friend how to bake that awesome cake they’re always asking you to make for get togethers, or sharing professional knowledge at work, you will learn more about yourself through this process and you’ll probably find yourself pulling even more bits of wisdom from places to help answer questions and thus, learning more!
Pisces The Tower, Rx
You may find yourself on a bit of unsteady ground this week, especially when it comes to work or areas where authority are involved. Things could always be worse, and that’s one thing that you can do well to keep in mind, but it would also benefit you to do all that you can to keep things calm on your end of things by staying cool and focused. Any disruptions this week are likely going to be ones that you have had some sort of idea were coming up, whether through actual first hand knowledge or just having that feeling. None of these disturbances should come as a big shock. Don’t make any big plans this week and don’t do anything to try and change existing plans that have been set for a while. Just go with the flow.
Have a great week everyone!
Pre-registration is open for “It’s In The Cards”
Aug 16th
Over the last few weeks I have been working away at setting up the One Witch’s Way Circle, our new online community that will be connected to the blog. As I detailed in a post last week, the Circle network will serve as a home for upcoming classes, workshops, live chats, live readings and much more. It’s a free network to join, allowing you to connect to others of the magickal mindset, and giving you a chance to connect with others even if you aren’t planning on taking a class right away. There are going to be a number of great opportunities popping up through the Circle including the chance for those who may be interested in teaching a class themselves a chance to do so without all the hassle that comes with the set up! So for the cost of nothing you have the chance to learn and connect with others and be some of the first to hear about new classes and other special events coming up. And if you are considering taking my upcoming 8 week tarot class “It’s In The Cards”, you’ll need to sign up for the Circle since this is where the class will take place. But sign up now and you’ll have the chance to pre-register and reserve a spot before the class fills up!
Come to One Witch’s Way Circle, sign up for free, and then be sure to go and read the details on how to pre-register for the tarot class and sign up today! In 3-4 weeks when open registration begins those who have pre-registered will get first dibs at the 12 open spots for the class. Spots are being taken already so don’t hesitate! This class wont be happening again until after the beginning of 2011, so join today!
Tarotscopes for August 16 to August 22
Aug 16th
For this weeks tarotscopes I’m working with the very interesting and unique Twilight Realm Faery tarot. These card work with some interesting images and symbolisms that hearken to the RWS tarot but with a very strong twist. The cards this week all lend to a feeling of people dealing with issues of balance and possibly working through feeling of confusion and things just being a little “off”. This isn’t too unusual since we are about to hit a Mercury retrograde this Friday the 20th that will last until September the 12th. Be sure to use the early part of the week to take care of any business dealings, wrapping up projects, and anything that might require any signing of papers or working out contractual agreements. Remember that everyone is going to get a bit edgy by the end of the week to be patient with them as well as yourself.
The Magician from the Twilight Realm tarot.
Tarotscopes for Monday August 16, 2010 through Sunday, August 22, 2010
Aries Three of Wands
Goals and projects that you have been working on will start to move a little bit faster this week by accepting the help of others around you. You have be trying to do too much on your own and this could be part of what is causing delays or feelings that you’re not getting to where you want to be right now. Working with others helps to ease some of your tensions this week and brings along some much needed connection time with others who have been trying to get your attention but you may have been too busy too notice. Accept the help and use the extra time this may give you for nurturing yourself a bit and doing something you really want to do for yourself rather than just something you feel you have to do.
Taurus Ace of Wands
Are you ready for a week of getting things done? If you truly are willing to get up and get things done the energy surrounding this week will be able to really help you reach your goals and push you through seeing some real progress. Keeping in mind that Mercury goes retrograde on Friday, use the early part of the week to define your goals, especially around personal projects or things that you’d like to do for yourself, and make progress. Grab that magick wand in front of you, focus your intentions and direct that power toward your goals and go for it!
Gemini Ace of Rings
A number of new possibilities are coming your way and this week could be the beginning of some new financial changes. This will be a good week to sit down and take a look at your personal finances and see where some change could possibly be made. Things that before might not have made sense or might not have been possible will start to be clear now and changes for bringing in a little extra income may start to pop up as well. Look for opportunities to use your magickal talents to fill any of those gaps in the bills that might show up.
Cancer King of Swords
This week you may find that there are reasons for you to step up and take the leader role with those around you. A desire to see things get done in an organized fashion will have you ready to take up the sword and rule things your way this week. Keeping balanced in your desire to help everyone else around you while filling a much needed “take charge” role, especially in the work place, will have you busy this week. But it will end with all good things and by the time the end of the week comes around you’ll be feeling like this have really gotten done.
Leo 2 of Rings
You’ve been working hard, juggling two things, maybe even more, all at once and trying to do far too much at once. This is OK sometimes but over time this can it can lead to confusion and not knowing which way is up. With the Mercury retrograde coming up at the end of the week it’s important to make sure that you have things as balanced as possible with your juggling act before the week is out. Make sure that this week you take a little time to look at the things you’re juggling and see what needs to be prioritized and then take things one at a time once Friday comes and as we move through this retrograde.
Virgo 7 of Rings
We all know that hard work over time yields better results in the long term than trying to make money in a “get rich quick” sort of way. We can chase all the rainbows we want looking for that mystical pot of gold losing time looking for nothing while we could be using that time to work on making real progress towards our financial goals with hard work. This week will be a good time to take a look at where you’re progress is with regards to financial progress to see where you’re at now and see how much further you have to go to get to your goals. It’s important to remember that patience is part of the hard work, but you’re on the right path so keep working!
Libra Ace of Swords
Challenges may be abound this week and it’s possible that things will be a bit of a challenge for you with the upcoming Mercury retrograde, but remember that being balanced in everything that you do can help make challenges a bit easier to work through. The sword can be used for good or ill depending on the why it’s used and the motivation within the person that holds it. Keep this in mind this week as you are faced with challenges, especially in the case of personal relationships with friends and family, and remember to use your words carefully and pick your battles wisely.
Scorpio 5 of Rings
The feeling of being frozen out by those around you, especially if you’re looking for support or help, may be a key element to your week this week. It’s important to keep in mind that there’s always power in our perceptions of things as well. What we might be seeing and feeling might not be what is truly going on around us. Instead of letting your thoughts mount and become more than they really are, letting your mind run wild, try and really see what it is that is really going on around you while also being sure to look to others to try and keep you balanced, focused, and in the here and now. Also be sure to get your rest this week and keep yourself healthy; you could find yourself easily falling ill this week.
Sagittarius The Chariot
A lot of progress will be made this week, especially in the area of work and financial obligations, but you need to keep yourself motivated and ready and willing to work and do what needs to be done. There is an element of balance necessary in all of this during the week, especially with regards to dealing with your emotions and how you approach things. By keeping yourself focused and staying on track this could be a week where you finally see some progress and possibly see some of your goals met. Just keep cool and keep on course.
Capricorn 9 of Wands
You may find that this week your defenses are particularly on guard and you may being to feel a bit suspicious of people you have been working with on projects either at work or on a personal level. You’ll find that being prepared to possibly have to deal with the unexpected this week will keep you from possibly having some real problematic road bumps in your path. Just be careful that your preparedness doesn’t turn into stubbornness with those around you this week.
Aquarius 10 of Swords
If you’ve been dealing with some difficult problems and situations, especially with specific people in your life, over the last few weeks you’ll find that this week will bring a few moments of hope to possibly see things more clearly through. Things may be difficult but you’ll have a chance to start to make some progress towards seeing how to work things out thanks to a bit of a reprieve in things. If the problem is strain in the family you’ll find that by laying down your sword, taking a moment to see yourself in someone else’s shoes, you’ll be able to get through everything a bit easier.
Pisces Prince of Swords
This week you’ll want to be careful with how you approach those that may try and challenge you this week. You might find that your natural reaction is to fly off the handle, so to speak, with the way you’re approached, but it’s important to remember that giving people more fuel to add to their fire can only fall on you when things explode later. Make sure that you get any of your important conversations or potentially confrontational issues out of the way in the early part of the week before the Mercury retrograde to help quell any of these possible problems later on.
Have a great week everyone!
Tarotscopes for August 9 to August 15
Aug 9th
The Wheel of Fortune from the Otherworld Tarot
Tarotscopes for Monday August 9, 2010 through Sunday, August 15, 2010
Aries Three of Swords
This week is going to be one where you may feel, come the end of the week, you wish you’d just stayed in bed and called in dead. Since this isn’t an option in the real world, being on your toes and allowing yourself a little extra time and space with those around you may prove to keep things from being too out of control as the week plays out. Be on the look out for how you perceive things as well. You have a tendency to take things to heart in a way that they aren’t always intended and this can sometimes make situations seem worse than they truly are. While it’s quite possible that you will find yourself dealing with some people looking to intentionally cause you trouble this week, don’t make it worse by letting your mind run wild either. Instead, take it one day at a time this week and don’t overfill your schedule so that you can give yourself some downtime in the evenings to recover from the days events.
Taurus Four of Swords
You’ll find that you and your Aries cousins are going to be on somewhat similar tracts this week as you move along doing what you do. While your Aries brethren may be dealing with trying to keep their calm, you’ll find that you’re not only ready to take a bit of a break from things but the world around you is ready to give you a bit of a break. You’ll find this week that things are naturally giving you a little more breathing room or you may find that you have more opportunities opening up for some downtime. Take it and don’t try and push yourself too far. You’re in need of a good rest from everything that’s been going on lately, especially at home. Take a little time this week to lay down your proverbial sword and just take a break; everything will be there next week, ready and waiting for your renewed sense of self upon your return.
Gemini Five of Swords
The time has come to start to make some reevaluation of your position in some situation you have found yourself in. Whether it’s at work or at home, something that you have been working for just isn’t panning out. Has someone stolen your thunder for you or have you just let things get to the point where you’ve missed your opportunity to really run with things and shine? Either way, regardless of how you got to where you are now, the overall sense of defeat is going to finally catch up with you this week and it may finally come to be time to look at what you’re doing and find out what exactly you need to do to start over, but start over with a different approach. If you’re working on personal creative project or a work project it may be time to find a different angle to work from and start from square one. If it’s a relationship that isn’t working out, it’s better to cut your losses and move on than cause you or anyone else any unnecessary pain by prolonging the inevitable. This isn’t going to be what you hoped for, but remember “You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you might find, you get what you need.” This could be what need to get to something better.
Cancer The Hanged Man
Over the course of this week it’s possible that you’ll find yourself feeling like everything is hanging in the air and nothing wants to come down. This is going to be a week of delays, things not coming through when they’re expected, and overall waiting. Anything that you have planned for this week should be given a little back up plan “just in case”. You’ve been on a roll lately with getting things done and feeling like you’re making progress at work, at home, everywhere! This week is going to feel like a big giant set back, but it isn’t. It’s more of a speed bump telling you to slow down, give yourself a break, and let things flow how they need to for now. You have driven things as far as you can for the time being so take a breather and know you’re doing a great job.
Leo The Magician
The power to make anything happen is in your path this week, but with a few things to keep in mind. Balance is the key to everything. If you want to have things work out for you, you need to make sure that everything else involved are getting something they want as well since this is what keeps everyone else happy and, thus, off your back so you can do whatever it is that you want. It’s also important to remember that keeping clam when things are getting a bit hectic can help keep things going at a fine pace otherwise things will just spin out of control if you can’t keep a lid on them. You are the one driving the train this week and that means you’re in control of not only directing where it goes but making sure it stays on the tracks. You may find that this week you’re not only having to deal with your own business but others may start coming to you looking for you to wave a magic wand and make their troubles go away as well. Don’t get frustrated at their intruding on your work or your time, but instead be flattered that they see you as their only hope and do what you can get them to feel in control of their own work again, then they can leave you be once more.
Virgo Nine of Pentacles
Hard work is paying off and this week you’re going to finally find that the answers you’ve been looking for to give you the confidence that you’re on the right track will start to make themselves known. While you’re doing great and you’re on your way to seeing your goals finally come to pass, don’t get lazy and don’t start to let the signs of progress give you too much confidence. You still have a lot of work to do but you’re at least doing the right things and you’re heading in the right direction. This week you’ll especially start to get a sense of the wisdom and growth that you’ve had over the last handful of months and you’ll start to find that the path to get to your final goal will become more clear. Don’t slow down, instead start working on those last steps with the confidence that you’re so close to what you have worked so hard for.
Libra Queen of Wands
Passion and creativity are only good when they are put into action; if we sit around and do nothing with our great ideas they can go from wonderful dreams to haunting nightmares. This week is a week to start putting that power to work for you and start doing something with your thoughts, dreams and ideas rather than just letting them be nice happy distractions. Even if it means nothing more than doing a little redecorating of the dining room to bring to live the vision you’ve been having of what it would be like to have tea with the Queen of England in her dining room, it’s better than sitting on the couch wasting away watching another episode of “The Real Housewives of whatever city is fashionable this month”. You can be a quiet lap cat or a roaring tiger ready to pounce on its prey, it’s all up to you and how badly you want something. Now is the time to set things into motion, not sit and wait to see if it just falls at your feet.
Scorpio Two of Swords
Something is going to feel off this week and you may not be able to pinpoint exactly what it is right off but as the week goes on, if you’re willing to really see all the possibilities, things will be made clear and answers will be revealed. Sounds simple enough, right? It’s not. It’s quite possible that the root of the problems you’re dealing with could be from your own inability to see the whole of the situation for what it is. It could be that a relationship isn’t what it seems or how you make it out to be; there could be an illusion of sorts going on right in front of you that you refuse to see through because the illusion is easier to deal with than the reality. Stop and think about the fact that it takes more energy to perpetuate a lie or something that isn’t real than it does to just let the truth of something come to the surface. This week you’ll find that you have no choice but to face the reality of a situation, unless of course the imbalance and the possible stress of not facing things is OK with you. It’s all in your hands at this point.
Sagittarius Ten of Wands
If ever there was a time to take a seat and let someone else do the hard stuff, it’s this week. You’ve been working hard, pulling overtime and double duty in all areas of your life lately, and it’s time to take a break. It might be hard to say no to some people and it may also be difficult to put off some things that you have really been wanting to do, but if you don’t take a break and let yourself have a chance to refresh and renew, you’re going to find that you’ll be seeing all this extra work catch up to you mentally, emotionally and physically. Summer colds, snapping in the department store while having to deal with parents and screaming children doing back to school shopping and having a bit of a breakdown while consulting your two best friends, Ben and Jerry, are all quite possible in your future, even this week, if you don’t take it easy. Take a little time to sort of what you are obligated to get done right away and what can wait for next week or even a few weeks from now. Summer will be over before you know it so take a moment to enjoy yourself and unwind this week.
Capricorn Eight of Pentacles
There are a lot of things that you’re good at, some that you have worked really have at and others that just come naturally to you. But now you have to ask yourself, “Am I putting my skills to good use?” This week is a good time to start looking at you skills and seeing how you can not only out them to use but how you can share them with the world. Whether it’s a work related skill, something that is more of a hobby, or something that plays out at home, find out what it is and then work to make it work for you. A great example of this can be found in Julia Child’s story of how she went from a military employee who liked cooking for her husband to a world renowned chef all because she took a skill she had, developed it and shared it with others who appreciated it. What skill can you share with others to help them better themselves while also bettering yourself? Need a little inspiration? Get a bottle of wine, rent “Julie & Julia” and have a little beef bourguignon to help and then follow your inner muse.
Aquarius King of Cups
This week you may find that you are the one that everyone wants to come to for a little help. Nothing major, but just a little push, a little advice, or a little guidance. You have a lot of love to give those around you but you don’t always give it freely and sometimes people have to come and flat out ask for your love, your attention, your appreciation. This week that’s what you’ll see happening so use this as a sign that you may need to start being a little more open with those who you love and trust. Keeping yourself under wraps with some people is only natural, but for the long time and long trusted friends and family in your life, they shouldn’t have to come to you asking for love, it should be given freely. Take the time to share your overflowing cup of love with those around you this week and you’ll find that when the tables are turned that love will come back to you in spades.
Pisces The Fool
There’s something you’ve been wanting to do that you have been giving far more mental energy to than you should when you really ought to be working to make this dream become a reality. This week is going to be about taking a leap of faith and following your dreams and doing it without too much worry or fear or what will happen if it doesn’t turn our perfect. Nothing is ever perfect the first time around! But if you spend all your time sitting inside and daydreaming while staring out the window you aren’t going to gain anything. Take that leap of faith, know that you’re going to run the risk of getting a horrible sunburn trying to climb a giant mountain in the August sun, but know that when you reach the top of that mountain you will have overcome a great hurdle, that of laziness and fear! Now anything will be possible. Get out there this week and take the first steps in making something you really, truly want to do finally happen and don’t worry about what happens along the way. It’s all part of the experience and the journey.
Have a great week everyone!
A sneak peak at the coming tarot class
Aug 5th
I wanted to take a moment to again thank all the people that chimed in with some thoughts about the upcoming tarot class that I have been working on. I have taken the suggestions and comments of those on the blog, Facebook and those who have emailed me personally and have come up with something that I think is going to be a really great eight week program to get you really moving along with reading the cards for not only yourself but other people as well while also giving you a chance to get a different perspective on learning, reading and working with tarot. Working with tarot shouldn’t be a chore and reading for other people shouldn’t be stressful, but I see it being that for many people and this is what I want to help alleviate through this class. I want everyone that walks away from this class to feel confident in reading for other people as well as themselves and feel as though they have the skills and confidence to work with tarot and enjoy it at the same time. There’s no point in doing something you don’t like!
As I’m still working on the lessons I can only give you a very brief idea of what will be covered in these eight weeks. My goal is to have all the lessons written by the end of August, giving me time to review in anticipation of a September 27th launch date. When I have the lessons complete I’ll be sending out an official class breakdown but this can give you an idea of what to expect in the meantime.
Week 1 – A brief review of tarot history, comparing tarot to other forms of divination and why we might use tarot, discussions on different types of decks, how to pick a deck, how to cleanse and prepare your deck, discussion on intention and tarot reading.
Week 2 - A review of the major arcana cards, the symbols in the majors and the structure of the majors, looking at creating one or two keywords for the cards, learning about tarot journaling.
Week 3 – A review of the minor arcana cards, the symbols in the minors and the structure of the minors, creating one or two keywords for each card, looking at card pairings.
Week 4 – A review of the court cards, learning how to read them as personalities as well as energies, creating keywords and personalities for the court cards.
Week 5 – Learning to see the bigger picture when looking at the cards through symbols, colors, associations and numerology, learning to work more with your clair-senses.
Week 6 – Working with tarot spreads, learning how to create the best questions for a spread and how to create spreads from your questions, learning to read with large spreads such as chakra spreads and wheel spreads.
Week 7 – Ethics of tarot reading, focusing on how to perform a professional level reading for another person, discussing different possible scenarios that you may encounter when reading for someone else and how to work with them, learning to know and accept your limits.
Week 8 – Looking at working with tarot for other things outside of just divination such as meditation, spell work, altar work, and affirmations.
This class is going to really focus on the follow key elements:
1. Teaching you to read without referring to a book.
2. Giving you the confidence to create and work with your own set of card associations.
3. Having you performing readings for another person starting on week two. Yes, you read that right, you’ll be performing readings for someone different every week starting on the second week of the class right through to the end. This is how you’ll learning to build that confidence and trust in yourself and your abilities.
In the class you will get:
1. A private community forum where the class will be conducted. Everything will be done online through videos, live chat, forum discussion, and weekly PDF lessons.
2. Each week you’ll receive your PDF lesson and assignments on a Monday to read and review and then you’ll be paired up with a classmate to be your working partner for the week for readings and other assignments. All readings and assignments will be due in time for the next class.
3. Video lessons will be provided to expand on discussion and also demonstrate spreads and techniques.
4. Weekly chat sessions (possibly live audio chat as well as regular text chat) will be held to discuss lessons, answer questions and practice the week’s material.
5. At the end of the class you will receive a certificate of completion (through email).
I know the big question has been about the cost. I am still working on this because I want to offer some options for those that can’t afford to pay a lump sum. The anticipated cost of the class will be $100 for the full eight weeks and includes everything involved with the class. You would need to supply for yourself a tarot deck (picked after the first week) and a notebook or journal. I am anticipating offering the following options:
1. Pay in full at the time of registering. (Full payment of $100.)
2. Arrange to pay in two installments, one at registration and a second payment on week 4. (Two payments of $50.)
All payments will need to be made through PayPal. I will be more than happy to discussion other options with those seriously interested in this class who cannot work either of these options. Each session of this class will be limited to 12 students in order to ensure that each student get’s the needed time and attention to complete the class successfully and to feel as though they have truly gotten their monies worth. As someone who has taken a number of online magickal and spiritual classes in the past and dealt with classes so big that it’s impossible to ever have a one on one discussion with an instructor, I flat out refuse to do that within my classes.
So that is the low-down so far. I am working on the lessons, building a community site, and I should have an official announcement with open registration around the first week of September. If you have any questions in the meantime, please don’t hesitate to ask! Just post in the comments or, if you’d prefer, drop me an email. I’d be more than happy to answer any questions.
If you had 8 weeks to learn tarot…
Aug 2nd
If you had 8 weeks to learn tarot, what would you want to learn, or rather hope to learn, in those 8 weeks? As some of you know I’m working on my tarot book that is long overdue, but in the process I was directed by my Guides to start developing a class on tarot to be taught online to help directly teach those who might be looking to learn in more direct way rather than just through a book. The online class will be similar but yet different from the book just because of it’s very nature, but also because working directly with a small group of people will change the dynamic of what will be learned. I’m in the process of creating an outline and writing up initial lessons but I’m very curious to know what people would want to learn. So if you were to take an 8 week class on tarot, with the goal being that you’ll be reading with confidence by the end of week 8, what would you specifically hope or expect to learn in that time? Feel free to share your thoughts or ideas here in the blog comments or you can email me privately and I’ll be happy to hear your suggestions! More details and news about the class will be coming and I expect to see the class launching at the end of October.
Tarotscopes for August 2 to August 8
Aug 1st
This week we’re back to our Tarotscopes after a little vacation break and we’re back to having the weekly forecasts provided by the Gaian Tarot deck. This week there seems to be a number of issues for people with regards to balance and taking time to find and honor our power, our true paths and our hearts desire.
Tarotscopes for Monday August 2, 2010 through Sunday, August 8, 2010
Aries Five of Earth
You may be feeling like you’re trapped right now; stuck in a situation that you can’t find any way out of or that seems bigger than you. If it’s not you who is dealing with this difficulty you may find that seeing others around you in difficult relationships or financial situations doesn’t elicit the empathy that it may have in the past. Instead you may find yourself wondering what it is that these individuals have done to bring on these hardships themselves; if it’s you who’s in trouble you may be feeling like you’re stuck in the role of the victim. This week may be a tough time to try and focus on any major projects or transitions but instead it may be a good time to just sit with the things that may be playing on your mind and give yourself some time to let them work themselves out naturally before taking on anything else.
Taurus Explorer of Air
High up in the trees the Explorer of Air looks for the best vantage point to see where to go next. This is where you might find your energy and focus best directed this week. If you’re trying to find answers to what to do next or how to handle a specific situation that you’re hitting some road bumps with, you may find that you’re answers are found by changing your perspective. Nothing is ever what it seems and when we give ourselves permission to looking at things differently we can usually find that the answers we were after were right in front of us all along. There can be a risk in doing this, naturally, since climbing those proverbial trees can be tricky, but in the end it’s always worth it.
Gemini Four of Air
Over the course of this week you may find that creating and maintaining your boundaries, especially in the workplace, will be important and helpful to keeping you from having any unnecessary and unwanted confrontations. This will help with not only reducing your personal stress level but it will also help you with protecting your work, your ideas and your projects. Create a boundary this week that says “my work and ideas are my own” while also giving yourself permission to move away from those around you and have time to yourself to nurture and develop those ideas and projects as well as giving yourself a break from the hustle and bustle of work and life. Nurture yourself this week and you’ll find everything comes and goes with ease.
Cancer Seven of Water
Choices and decisions can particularly difficult this week, especially if you find that there are a lot of options and possibilities around you. The important thing to keep in mind when making your decisions is that you need to be true to yourself. As you find yourself faced with decisions and you work to narrow down your choices ask yourself of each option if this is what fills your heart and feeds your spirit. This is how you will know that you have found the right choice for you. When you find yourself making your decisions and making your path, drink deeply from the chalice your hold and enjoy this new adventure.
Leo Ace of Water
Following your heart and seeking what you really desire is something that you are being called to do but you may find that you feel a little stuck or confused with where to go and how to reach out and grab the proverbial “Holy Grail”. Sometimes you have to go against the usual flow of things in order to get to where you’re going because what you’ve been doing just hasn’t been working. There is courage that you need to have to go after what you really want and this week you will find yourself at that breaking point where you’re ready to muster that courage and go for it. Take a little time this week to define what you want and start making a new path to it knowing that you have the support and love of the Goddess and the Universe along the way.
Virgo Awakening
As the summer has been rolling on you may have been feeling like it’s time for some change, like something is calling you to wake up and take notice. The Universe is calling you. Spirit is trying to get your attention. The Gods want you to look to them for answers and guidance. This week is a great time to start revitalizing your spiritual practice, especially if you’re working with a meditation practice. This week set aside serious meditation time, working with different guided meditations for specific purposes or to commune with specific Gods and spirit allies, and seek out what it is that can help to bring some balance, peace and renewal into your life. It’s time to bring in some new spiritual awareness to your daily life and let it help liberate you.
Libra Elder of Air
This week you may find that your abilities to bring peace and calm to a situation is called on more than once. You have a natural ability to help people come together and work through their difficulties. One of the best ways that you can do this over the course of the week is to lead by example. If you find yourself involved in a difficult situation with others, let yourself be the one that sets the example. Rather than arguing be the one that brings peace. Make the effort if you have to over the course of the week to go that extra mile to keep yourself balanced and keep peace between yourself and those around you.
Scorpio Eight of Water
Are you doing what you love? Are you living the life that you feel you’re supposed to live? Are you being true to yourself? This week you may find yourself faced with situations and thoughts that will bring this very thing up. It’s always a little scary to move away from one way of live into another and to make changes to our lives, especially if we’re moving into a territory that we know nothing about. But this is the time to take action. What is it that you aren’t doing that you’d like to do? What are you doing now that isn’t leading you to living as your authentic self? Find what it is that you’re doing, or not doing, and change that. Take action and make some changes and move forward toward what you really want knowing that what you leave behind is no longer serving your highest good.
Sagittarius Child of Earth
With summer coming to it’s height, ask yourself if you’ve taken enough time to really enjoy the summer season outside in nature. Have you taken a sunset walk on a warm night or gone and spent some time letting the cool waters of the ocean, lake or river wash away the sticky summer air from your body? Have you rolled in the grass or watched the clouds float overhead? If you haven’t, make time this week to do something outside every day, even if it’s only for 15 minutes each day during a work break or before turning in for the night. Nature, and our personal relationship with it, helps to bring us peace and balance and helps to cleanse us. Taking advantage of what the earth has to offer by spending time in nature and adjusting our diets to be more natural can help to bring us to a place of alignment with the Divine and our higher self.
Capricorn Three of Water
Having joy in your life is wonderful, but when you don’t have others to share it with it’s just not as sweet. Is there something you’ve been wanting to celebrate or something coming up that calls for a little celebration? Now’s the time to do it but do it with close friends that can appreciate your happiness. Come together this week with a few close friends and do something fun, something that together will not only bring you closer together but that will also give you the chance to find and share joy together. Taking time out to honor the good things and the good people in your life help to keep the flow of love and prosperity coming to you.
Aquarius Four of Fire
If you’ve been feeling like your personal power is a little low, this week you’ll be feeling things pick up, but it’s important to honor your personal power and use it. Take time this week to do some cleansing; cleanse yourself spiritually and have a small ritual to release any unwanted energy that you may have been carrying that has been weighing you down. Then take the time to acknowledge and honor your personal strength through a formal act of ritual. Perform a self-dedication or a right of passage and welcome a new flow of energy and power into your life.
Pisces Eight of Air
Working with others may be difficult this week and you might feel that you’ve either reached your burn out point or as though you just don’t have anything to contribute anymore to a group that you may be working with. You might find that dealing with others at work this week leaves you drained, especially if you’re usually in the position of leading things. Instead, this week find a way to take a supportive role so that you can sit back and recharge yourself but still lend your expertise and your abilities to those that count on you to be there to work with them.
Have a great week everyone!
August Reading Special…Tarot Profiles!
Aug 1st
This month’s reading special is a personalized tarot profile, a great gift for a friend or perfect for yourself as a way to gain more insight into your life, your personal path, your challenges and your opportunities. The tarot profile is created using your full date of birth to calculate seven cards that represent seven different aspects of your life and personality. These include:
Personality Card: This card represents your life purpose, showing your talents and strengths. By working with your personality card you’re able to learn more about your personal gifts and how they are expressed in your personality and how they are presented to others. This card can help you to identify these traits better and help you to hone them and find better ways to express your true self to the world around you.
Soul Card: Your soul card gives you insight into your personality on a much deeper level. The information revealed in with the soul card shows you the lessons and challenges of your soul through all your lifetimes. This can help to gather further information about why you may find certain challenges and circumstances come up time and time again in your life. Some feel this card helps to work through karma from past lives as well.
Zodiac Cards: There are two cards that are calculated, your Sun Sign card and your Personal Zodiac Card. Your Sign Sign card will reveal more about your sign and how it influences your personality. Your Personal Zodiac Card gives deeper information on your fundamental desires, challenges and impulses. This card is something called the Destiny Card and provides a great meditation tool for self-discovery and can be used for creating a personal power altar.
Zodiac Lessons: This card is a little different from the other zodiac related cards and helps us to see the specific lessons and the opportunities that are presented to you in this lifetime based on these lessons and your ability to work through them. This card makes for another powerful card for working through personal challenges and tapping into your power.
Your Year: There are three year cards that are calculated, Previous Year, Current Year, Upcoming Year. These cards help to see what specific challenges and opportunities you may encounter in the past, present and future. This can be helpful in sorting out patterns that have been troubling you or situations that seem to keep repeating themselves.
Name Numerology: As an added bonus at the end of the report the full name of the person the report is created for will be broken down for a personality number based on name. This number can help to add to the information within the cards and can help confirm much of what the profile may bring up.
In total, eight tarot cards are determined specifically for you and then analyzed with a reading for each card and each section of the profile. These Tarot Profiles are a great alternative to the traditional general tarot reading. They also make a great gift for a friend or loved one that may have a birthday coming up.
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A Tarot Spell for the Sun
Jun 21st
The Summer Solstice, Litha, Midsummer. Whatever you call it, we have reached the height of the sun’s power and we have come to the midway point of the year. While we often see the year divided into four seasons, in many ancient cultures the year was divided in half, honoring the summer and winter seasons alone. Today being the day that the sun reaches it’s apex, we have a special opportunity to take some of the power of the sun and draw it into our lives to help burn away things that no longer serve us while adding fuel to the things we wish to see grow in our loves.
Tarot spells and working with tarot cards in magick is really quite simple. The cards serve as a focal point for meditation and for raising and directing energy. While this can be a really elaborate process, using multiple cards and many different magickal techniques, I’ll present to you a very simple way to use the Sun card specifically for honoring Midsummer and drawing in the power of the sun for growth in the coming months. All you need for this is:
- The Sun card from either your favorite deck or from a deck set aside just for magick
- An orange or yellow candle
- Incense of a solar or fiery nature (cinnamon, frankincense, orange, sandalwood, dragon’s blood…personally I like using a mix of amber, cinnamon and frankincense for this type of work)
- Essential oil or solar blend oil (similar to the herbs above) to anoint your candle if you wish
If you decide to anoint your candle with oil, take a few drops of oil in the palm of your hand and rub the oil into the candle from wick to center and then from base to center. This motion helps with drawing energy toward you, which is what you’ll be doing with this spell. Place the candle in an appropriate holder.
Take your Sun card and place it on your work space. Place the candle holder with your candle at the top of the card. Place your incense next to the card on the left (movement from left to right is the movement of bringing things towards us; the use of the incense to card our wishes and desires helps to draw those things into us and into our energy space).
Light your candle and incense.
Gaze at The Sun card with the candle light illuminating the image. Think about what the card means to you and some of the symbolism that is present in The Sun card. Draw up the energy of joy, happiness, youth, growth, and brightness. Feel this energy by recalling an event in your life that gave you the most clear and perfect feeling of joy and happiness you have ever experienced. This could be the birth of a child, your wedding day, the first time you went away on a special vacation; anything that makes you feel that sense of youthful joy and excitement. Hold that feeling while thinking of something in your life that you wish to give that energy to. Maybe you have a creative project that you’d like to see grow and bring you that kind of feeling at completion. Maybe you have a problem in your life that needs this sort of energy to drive you to find a solution. Imagine that feeling of pure joy surrounding you in that situation. See that project completed and feeling that feeling of celebration; see this troubling problem in your life resolved and feeling a sense of relief and happiness.
Now examine The Sun card deeply. Image that you are the child on the while horse, riding happily into the warm sun, surrounded by the scent of sunflowers and greenery. Whatever the image is on your card, place yourself as the character in that card or, if you card doesn’t have a character, place yourself within the card in a place that allows you to gain the full perspective of the Sun. How does the card feel to you? Can you feel the sun on your skin, the joy in the air? Draw that into yourself, taking whatever kind of time you need to fully connect with the card and the energy of the sun.
When you’re ready come out of the card meditation and imagine all that energy that you have gathered as a large, bright yellow ball of energy, your own personal “sun”, at the center of your body, at the solar plexus. See that ball of energy rise up through your body, out through the crown chakra (through the top of your head) and out into the Universe. Envision it flying off into the atmosphere, heading to your desire, and pouring out it’s energy into it, helping you reach your goal with grace, swiftness and ease.
Let the incense and candle burn out. When you’re finished you can leave the card out on your work space or place it in another special place in your home as a reminder until you see your goal come to fruition or you can take your card and place it back into your deck.
Remember that all magick requires work in the “real world”. Once you have cast this simple spell be sure that you take the practice steps needed to make your dreams come true. If you cast the spell for a job, make sure you get out and go to interviews. If you worked to help with a relationship, make sure you communicate with the people or persons involved. Make sure that you do what you need to on your own and the energy that you created and sent out through your spell will make the process easier and bring your goals to you faster.
Happy Solstice!
A little about Litha and a Reading
Jun 21st
Happy Summer Solstice and Merry Litha! Today we honor and celebrate the height of the sun’s power. Today we take time to celebrate the triumph of the sun, the time when the Oak King reaches his peak and is then struck down by the Holly King who will rule the waning half of the year through winter. While today we see the year divided into four seasons, in ancient times many cultures, like that of the Celts, divided the year into two halves, summer and winter. The winter solstice marked the beginning of the winter and the summer solstice the beginner of summer. Today we often start to feel the hints of summer during mid-spring and it’s not uncommon for some places to feel as though summer has set in during the spring equinox or Ostara. This is the time of year that we see the lush green that sprung up several months ago during the equinox give way to fruit and flowers. While today most of us celebrate the solstice on the date when the event actually takes place, usually somewhere around June 21st, in some traditions there is a fixed date of June 25th which is honored and often called “Old Litha”. Litha is a favorable time to rededicate yourself to your path and the God and Goddess.
Litha is often a time when the faeries are honored and are thought to be particularly active. Bonfires are common during Litha and it’s thought that lighting bonfires in forests or on hilltops attract certain faeries to the fires and festivals. Leaving offerings of honey and cream at the edge of the fire for the faeries can keep them from causing any trouble or mischief and is thought to help create a connection between ourselves and the fae.
For Litha I thought we could do a short reading, a small glimpse with the help of the faeries through Brian & Wendy Froud’s The Heart of Faerie Oracle to see what the fae have to tell us for the coming half of the year.
The Faerie of Growth
The Lord of the Forest
The Elven Knight
Seeing The Faerie of Growth here is no wonder and no mystery. Even though the summer solstice signals the coming of the waning half of the year, there is still a wonderful and powerful period of growth ahead. Here the faeries remind you that staying stagnate for any length of time means that life is not expanding. Growth is necessary otherwise we die; stagnation is like death. As the summer months move on and we see the world around us growing we need to grow with it. It’s a good time to stop and take a moment to see what areas of our lives need growth and allow the warmth of the sun to empower our paths to welcome and foster that growth.
The Lord of the Forest is part of the embodiment of masculine energy in the faerie realm. He is the driving force of all that we are and all that we do. We all have a masculine side just as we all have a feminine side, but sometimes we forget these things and we need to be reminded so that we can really sense that energy within us. As the feminine side nurtures the masculine side impregnates and moves. Here the Lord of the Forest comes to remind us that our thoughts and dreams are good to have, as this is the feminine side doing it’s job, but we need to also let the masculine side come in and act on those dreams. As the Faerie of Growth tells us it’s time to start growing, moving and changing, the Lord of the Forest comes to help us take action.
Seeing The Elven Knight come in as well shows that we have come into a period of great opportunity and growth, more than we may even really realize. Much like the Lord of the Forest, the Elven Knight is a driving force. The Elven Knight is a guide, a leader, a driving force even stronger than the Lord of the Forest. He leads us to our destiny when we are ready to move and seek it out. Here we have the Knight letting us know that the way is clear and the path is open for us. It’s time to set our sights on accomplishing things that, in the past, we may have seen as impossible. Nothing is impossible when you have these faeries to guide you.
These are three very powerful faeries to have come together in a reading, and here in this reading, we see ourselves driven into a very powerful direction for growth and change as the summer season moves forward. This is going to be a great chance for change and for accomplishing things that we have held off on either out of fear or not being confident that we can reach our goals. Set your goals, ask the Faerie of Growth to guide you in where to go and the Lord of the Forest and the Elven Knight will be sure to keep you going and to drive you toward your goal and your destiny.
Have a wonderful and empowered summer season!
