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…
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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…
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…
Shouldering Your Angel and Your Devil: Make Decisions with Tarot and Astrology
Make Decisions with the Tarot’s Lovers and Devil Cards Decisions are the worst. Most people start with a pro and con list, but seriously, if it were that easy you would have already made the decision. You know what’s smart.…
Jupiter Conjunct Neptune in Pisces Tarot Spreads
Drowned in Sleep: Tarot Spreads for Exploring the Unconscious Side of Creativity Tomorrow, April 12, 2022, the Jupiter-Neptune conjunction goes exact in the sign of Pisces. This past Saturday, in the “Drowned in Sleep” presentation for the Greater Seattle Tarot…
Empaths: Stay Sane When The World is Nuts
Spiritual Techniques for Keeping the Crazy Away Covid. War. Climate change. And then there’s your own personal problems. It’s enough to drive anyone bonkers. But if you’re an empath, you feel it all much too intensely. If, as a result…
Seeds of Meaning: Tarot Astro-Limericks
Tarot Blog Hop: Short Form Tarot Interpretations As the wrangler of today’s hop, I proposed the topic: Short Form Tarot Interpretations. The idea is to find the essence, the kernel, the seed of meaning for a tarot card, while expressing…
Learn Astrology with Only 17 Symbols
The Easiest Way to Learn Astrology! Astrology is a symbolic language that reveals who we are, where we’re going, and what we’ll meet along the way. Its permutations are infinite. But it all starts with the most basic of building…
Mars In Pisces 2020
Mars is moving quickly, passing through the sign of the Fishes in just over six weeks and advancing into Aries by the end of June. Mars gains a mystical mindset in Pisces normally. But his current high energy applies the…
Mercury Square Pluto Retrograde
Pondering the summer retrogrades, heralded and enfolded by Pluto’s long regression, I was struck by the mythological significance of the final aspect made to Pluto before he turns backwards. Today Mercury squares Pluto, prior to and holding position as Pluto…
Moon in Sagittarius Square Neptune in Pisces
I realized today that the April Moon in Sagittarius square to Neptune in Pisces enacts the myth of Artemis and Orion. I have a couple versions of the astro-limerick for you, one that expresses the myth, and one that’s more…
Full Moon in Libra, Sun at Exaltation Degree
Today’s Lunchtime Astro-Limerick addresses the Full Moon in Libra with the Sun at the exaltation degree. I use the metaphor of an ingenue actress coached by a prominent director. See select Lunchtime Astro-Limericks here or all of them on my…
Venus in Gemini
Venus in Gemini is the topic for today’s Lunchtime Astro-Limerick. I discovered a fascinating parallel in mythology to the current Venus-Mars cycle. It re-enacts with surprising detail the story of Atalanta and Hippomenes. The limerick can hardly capture it all! …
Ten of Swords: Sun in Gemini
June 2019 Tarot Card Astrology: Ten of Swords The Sun will play the role of the Ten of Swords: Sun in Gemini, completing its journey through the final decan of that sign. This time period brings a conclusion of the…
Tarot Timing Information Chart
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! “Tackle timing” is the charge given us by summer solstice blog hop wrangler Arwen of Tarot by Arwen. Timing in the tarot can be a tricky topic. But successfully identifying when something will happen…
Three of Cups: Mercury in Cancer
June 2019 Tarot Card Astrology: Three of Cups Over the course of a week from Monday, June 10, 2019, through Monday, June 17, Mercury enacts the Three of Cups: Mercury in Cancer, traveling through the middle section of that sign.…
Four of Wands: Venus in Aries
May 2019 Tarot Card Astrology: Four of Wands Venus moves through the last decan of Aries, the portion of the sign that she rules, for about ten days from late May 6, 2019 to the early morning hours of May…
Nine of Swords: Mars in Gemini
April 2019 Tarot Card Astrology: Nine of Swords The tarot’s Nine of Swords: Mars in Gemini will be played out in the heavens between tax day, April 15, and the end of the month. At this time Mars passes through…
Sun, Moon, Ascendant: The Astrological Chart as Cosmic Egg
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! Wranglers Jay Cassels of Sacred Healing and Sharron Basanti of Seeds of Shakti suggested we share a card that represents us. I gave this post an astrological twist by breaking down the basic components of the…
Meditations on the Eight of Cups – Saturn in Pisces
Today’s article is a reprint of my meditations on the Eight of Cups that I first published in 2012. You might also find my tarot card astrology series of interest. Decan: First, the cardinal decan (initiating, generating)Calendar dates for the decan: February…