Tarot and Astrology: Combining Two Forms of Divination Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! An international group of tarotists are all writing on the same topic and then linking to each other so that the reader can hop from one…
April is the Month for Retrogrades Retrogrades echo throughout this month asking us to stop and listen to their refrains while Mercury retrograde jinxes tax day. Sun in Taurus gets serious. Retrograde Refrains April is the month for retrogrades. Not only do…
March Astrology March astrology brings us a Venus retrograde for a relationship do-over and, towards the end of the month, four planets in Aries to energize you. Sun in Pisces March opens with the Sun and Neptune sleepily spooning in…
I was doing a mentoring session with an astrology student. When I asked how the week went, she mentioned that she reviewed the material from last week, read ahead for this week, and looked at some charts. Awesome! “How’d the…
This week, as a bonus class for the intermediate astrology class I’m teaching, I offered my thoughts on how to connect with intuition while working with the often overly analytical process of chart delineation. I started off with an exercise. I…
OK, I totally admit it. This is my question. I searched everywhere and asked some pretty knowledgeable people and didn’t get an answer that helped, so I had to figure it out myself. Once I figured out the answer, I…
Understanding the Moon through the signs lets you take charge of your moods. The Moon represents our inner, private self, emotions, and our soul. The Moon is intuitive, empathic, caring, and moody. The Moon is the fastest of the astrological…
Heather Rose of Enchanted Rose, LLC, who completed my Esoteric Tarot certification program, emailed me with a problem she was running into doing astrological chart readings. Here’s the question: “I have done some chart readings. I feel like I have that…
Through the Shining Veil: Planetary Ingresses for Self-Reflection TO SELENE, THE MOON The Fumigation from Aromatics. Hear, Goddess queen, diffusing silver light, bull-horn’d and wand’ring thro’ the gloom of Night. With stars surrounded, and with circuit wide Night’s torch extending,…
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! An international group of tarotists are all writing on the same topic and then linking to each other so that the reader can hop from one blog to the next, seeing all the permutations…
Someone posted this question on Facebook in a forum. I’d like to share the question and my response here so that this information is more readily available, and not lost forever in the labyrinth of Facebook. Here’s the question: “As…
One of the classes I teach is Esoteric Tarot–reading tarot based on the astrological and qabalistic correspondences as systematized in Book T by Samuel MacGregor Mathers. Each year we are on a mission to find the perfect “cheat-sheet” deck–a deck…
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! An international group of tarotists (check out the master list) are all writing on the same topic and then linking to each other so that the reader can hop from one blog to the…
5. A Gorgeous Spiritual Center, not a Fluorescent Convention Center. TarotCon Denver will be held at the Althea Center for Engaged Spirituality. This amazing historic building was built in 1898 as a church of Divine Science, one of the denominations…
A student who has been studying esotericism (tarot, astrology and kabbalah) with me all year contacted me this morning with the following question: “You mentioned that the numbers associated with the tarot are not necessarily accurate, as I understood you;…
A tarot student contacted me today asking for a suggestion for reading a question of time, such as, will a specific event happen, and if so, when. Here’s my answer: There are a variety of ways to read for time. I’ll…
The symbolism behind the Chariot’s correlation to Cancer in the tarot just came to me. First, it helps to understand how the assignment of the cards to the planets and signs came about. In fifteenth century minchiate decks, twenty additional…
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! An international group of tarotists (check out the master list) are all writing on the same topic and then linking to each other so that the reader can hop from one blog to the…
Aligning with Universal Cycles One important aspect of ritual work is timing. When I first studied this topic, I learned that, although magic can be worked at any time, it was advisable to align the work with universal cycles, such…
Welcome to the Tarot Blog Hop! An international group of tarotists are all writing on the same topic and then linking to each other so that the reader can hop from one blog to the next, seeing all the permutations…
