The Silent Sermon, or, Happy New Year!
Joy Vernon
Joy Vernon is widely recognized as an expert tarot teacher and respected community leader. With over twenty-five years’ experience teaching energetic and esoteric modalities, Joy brings expertise and practiced familiarity to her specialty of esoteric tarot, which layers astrological and qabalistic symbolism onto the traditional tarot structure. Under her leadership, the Denver Tarot Meetup grew into one of the largest and most active tarot-specific meetups in the world. Now Joy runs the Greater Seattle Tarot Meetup. Joy works as a tarot reader, astrologer, and teacher in Burien, Washington. To learn more, please visit JoyVernon.com.
Icy Snowflakes Tarot Bag Knitting Pattern
A simple band of eyelet snowflakes warms up this quick knit project Frigid temps and icy roads were the culmination of several days of snow. The crows held a convocation. Perhaps cawing kept them warm. Here in Seattle, the slick…
Using Magical Doors for Skrying on the Tree of Life
How to Do Astral Journeying for Tarot Pathworking For the winter solstice tarot blog hop, wrangler Jay Cassels gave us an interesting prompt of “traditions” combined with an image of an arched wooden door in an oak tree. The attached…
How To Work with Magical Images
Meditations for Magical Images A mighty king sitting on a sapphire throne. A warrior queen standing in a red chariot. A golden-haired child with arms upraised. These are some of the magical images of the Tree of Life. What do…
The Great Granddaddy of Tarot Spreads
A Sample Reading with the Great Granddaddy of Tarot Spreads Years ago I came across Mary K. Greer’s wonderful article, “The Oldest Spread, by le Comte de M***.” She offered a fascinating peek into the first recorded tarot spread. All…
Q&A with Joy: Rephrasing Questions on Health and Other People
The Tarot Taboos: Reading on Health and Other People Reading on health and other people are two very common questions. And every reader’s Statement of Ethics says they will not read on these topics. But reading for clients includes looking…
Q&A with Joy: How Many Decks Should I Take On Vacation?
Be Sure to Leave Room in Your Luggage for Tarot Decks! “How many decks should I take with me?” A year or two ago, I was reading for a client who was preparing for a retreat that would last several…
How to Password Protect Your Bountiful Harvest
Create an Equinox Password and Create Your Bountiful Harvest Our theme for the fall equinox Tarot Blog Hop is Bountiful Harvest. Raine of Tarot of Change suggested it and Jay of Jay’s Mystic Blog is hosting the master list. So,…
“Tarot and Astrology Chat” Links and References
“Tarot and Astrology Chat” Links and References I had a great time talking with Chris Brennan of The Astrology Podcast while I was in Denver last month. We explored a wide-ranging variety of topics centering around and launching from a…
Use Astrology to Identify Blocks
Get a Handle on What Makes Life Hard In Heart of the Dark Woods, we use my specialized Empyrean Key method to identify the primary block in your chart. Then we go on to note the helper who can offer…
Summer Sun and Fun: Junk Mail Tarot
Transform Third-class Trash Into First-Rate Tarot Art Today’s assignment for the Tarot Blog Hop is to create a tarot card or two or three from your junk mail! As the wrangler, my suggestion was to stick to what comes through…
2022 Lammas Tarot Blog Hop Master List
Mid Summer 2022 Blog Hop: Junk Mail Tarot Back in 2016 for the June Solstice, wrangler Morgan Drake Eckstein of Gleamings from the Golden Dawn proposed one of my all-time favorite blog hop topics: Junk Mail Tarot. I liked it…
Connecting Lines: Tarot Symbolism
I love staring at tarot cards. I can gaze at a card a million times and still find something new in it. Last night, I was looking at cards with friends. As I contemplated the Ten of Wands, I saw…
TBH
Tarot Blog Hop, or To Be Honest For this unofficial Tarot Blog Hop, our beloved wrangler Jay Cassels proposed we explore our groups’s acronym, TBH. Most people recognize the letters TBH as the idiom, “To Be Honest.” Jay invited us…
Do Your First Tarot Reading
Are You Ready to Do Your First Tarot Reading? it’s Easy with My Quick Start Tarot Guide! After teaching tarot for twenty-eight years, I asked myself, “What is the one thing I would say to a brand-new tarot reader?” If…
Repertoire of Stories: The Tarot’s Unseen Traditions
The Stories we Know Bring Our Tarot Readings to Life Wrangler Jay Cassels of Jay’s Mystic Blog invited us to explore the interesting topic of “unseen traditions.” I wasn’t sure where to take the topic, but a three-card spread gave…
How To Shuffle Tarot Cards
Before performing a tarot reading, it’s important to randomize the cards. The standard practice for randomizing a deck is shuffling the cards. But with tarot cards, shuffling can be awkward when the deck’s too big. Fortunately, there are a variety…
Q&A With Joy: Astrology of the Tarot Pages
Astrological Correspondences of the Tarot Pages I was having lunch with a friend the other day and he asked me about the Pages in the tarot. He wanted to know if they had an astrological correspondence. Our discussion led to…
Be the Best Reader for You: Tips for Reading Tarot for Yourself
Be The only reader You’ll ever need Follow these tips for reading tarot for yourself, work through your own reading using the free downloadable workbook, and discover that you’re the best reader for you! I first presented this for the…
Seven Of Pentacles: Saturn In Taurus
Spring 2022 Tarot Card Astrology: Seven Of Pentacles Saturn won’t be in Taurus until 2028, and won’t enter the third decan of that sign until June 2029. A retrograde will keep it in roughly that area of the zodiac for…