October Astrology from a Tarot Perspective: Grand Trine in Water Venus finds herself tossed between Mars and Saturn during the first ten days or so of October, the Three of Swords decan of the year. Venus is green with envy…
Using the Astrological Fifth House to Create Yourself In astrology, the fifth house is about creativity, pleasure, and joy. Our offspring are assigned to this house, but more than just childbirth, we find the experience of coming-into-being in this part…
Happy New Year! Not only did I celebrate a great holiday with family and friends, but I am very much looking forward to starting off the New Year with the 30-year anniversary of my first tarot class! If you’ve already…
“See, here’s the deal.” The slightly built man’s eyes darted left and right, while his heel, encased in narrow black shoes, the dressy kind you only wear to a wedding or a funeral, bounced phrenetically, tapping a staccato tattoo against…
Shift Into the Magic of the Dark Woods Often I am reading several books at once, as I was when I wrote this. And frequently they seem to comment on each other. Last year, just as I was putting together…
A Short Story Based on Astrological Transits Back in 2020 I did an astrological transit series I called “Lunchtime Astro-Limerick.” I followed the transits every day and wrote a short poem about what was happening. I even developed a subseries…
The Truth About Enlightenment: Get Lost to Find the Path For the fall blog hop, wrangler Jay Cassels of Jay’s Mystic Blog offered a buffet of assorted topics. But what most resonated with me was the title of the posted…
Where Are We Going? Rewind Edition Featuring Venus Retrograde As I contemplated the topic, “Where are we going?”, provided by Kimberly Essex of Tarot & Meditations, I couldn’t help but think of Venus Retrograde. Sometimes it feels as if we’re…
Someone who’s been following my blog for awhile contacted me with a question about yes or no tarot questions. In this Q&A with Joy, I share the pros and cons of yes or no tarot questions and provide a few…
How Tarot Can Transform You Wrangler Jay Cassels of Jay’s Mystic Blog offered alternate paths for today’s Tarot Blog Hop, exploring the general topic of “transitions.” Of the questions he posed, the one I chose to run with was, “how…
Explore the Symbols of Separation In the third stage of the alchemical process, the soul and spirit — or Sulfur and Mercury — are separated from the body — Salt — in order to purify each before reuniting them. Splitting…
The Two of Cups at a Table for One For the May Day blog hop, wrangler Raine Shakti proposed the topic “self love,” inviting us to explore how we can love ourselves better. As I contemplated the topic, the idea…
Answers, Affirmation, Connection: The Benefits of Getting a Reading Everybody has questions about their life. The top three questions I hear as an intuitive reader are about career, love, and money. Does that mean I end up saying the same…
Explore the Symbols of Dissolution After experiencing the desiccation of calcination, the second step of alchemy’s seven operations feels contrastingly unmoored. Feeling lost at sea, tossed up and down in waves of emotion, or dissolving in tears are common experiences.…
April Fools! Royal fools have wisdom in their trickery. These five (plus a bonus!) blog posts each explore the Fool from a different angle. This handful of essays includes a soup recipe, a love tarot spread, a wordless essay, and…
Find Your Brightest Self with this Alchemical Tarot Spread I proposed the topic of “dawn” for today’s spring equinox blog hop. Today the Sun steps into Aries, marking the start of the zodiac and the dawning of a new cycle.…
2023 Spring Blog Hop: Dawn On New Year’s Eve this past December, I posted an “endings and new beginnings” theme, then the next day I shared a year ahead spread. After that, Kim Kim’s topic for Imbolc, our first hop…
Explore the Symbols of Calcination The first step of alchemy’s seven operations feels hot, cramped, threatening, vulnerable, and trapped. In this level, the alchemist burns away the dross, leaving nothing but bone, a symbol of the incorruptible body. This first…
Introduction to the Rotation of the Elements Everything in the universe comes into being through the interaction of two forces, called the polarities. The four elements arise from the interplay of these forces. According to the philosophies of alchemy and…
Take Five With The Tarot Fours Our topic for the Mid-Winter Tarot Blog Hop is “Beginning Again.” Wrangler Kim of Kimberly Essex Tarot and Meditation skipped through a series of word associations starting with “spring cleaning” to “cleaning the slate”…
