I'm working on it! Truly! At the moment I'm debating how elaborate I'd like the course to be. I think it will probably look like a large folder of downloadable PDFs - worksheets and lectures, possibly along with an audio component - which you can work through at your own pace. My forthcoming Tarot Correspondences: Ancient Secrets for Everyday Readers will be the reference text for the class.
Read MoreThis week we arrive at a welcome point of harmony in the suit of the mind with the 6 of Swords, the Lord of Science or Earned Success. Here are journeys of the spirit and the body, problems solved and refuges reached. Mercury, world traveler and expert decoder, rules over this middle decan of starry Aquarius, interpreting its distant guidance and plotting a course toward its light.
Read MoreSo on Sunday, in the space of half an hour, I lost my keys. I had just come in from taking the trash to the dump, and I was steamed because that's not usually my job and I thought the person who was supposed to do it had forgotten. (He hadn't.) …
Read MoreThis week we confront the 5 of Swords, the Lord of Defeat - an uncomfortable place at best and a dangerous no man's land at worst. The truce of the 4 of Swords has fallen; winners gloat and losers suffer.
Read MoreThis week we explore the Lord of Truce or Peace Restored; the 4 of Swords represents a moment of sweet relief between the sorrows of the 3 and the Pyrrhic battles of the 5. Benevolent Jupiter rules over this decan of measured Libra, allowing cooler heads to win the day. For a moment, all the forces of the Wheel are in alignment. All parties agree, though their détente may not be destined to last.
Read MoreBehind a quiet expression, Virgo's mind is racing. Virgo notices everything - the sweet and subtle shades of bergamot and violets; the knowing ascetic that is geranium. But the layers of librarian wit part like rose petals to reveal a warm and sunlit heart of vetiver and sandalwood - worth taking the time to know, if you are patient.
Read MoreSo this is one of my absolute favorite cards to muse on. The Waite Smith 8 of Swords is one of those cards that people fear, yet its associated majors are perhaps the two they most rejoice to see. How can this be?
Read MoreThe Orphic Hymn to Dream is one of the last to appear in the sequence of Orphic Hymns. The final three hymns form an intriguing triptych: To Sleep (#85), To Dream (#86), To Death (#87). The Dream hymn presents the spirit of dreaming as a moral force - one who has the power to offer truthful messages from the gods, as well as actionable advice!
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