Tarot Gardens

When I started reading cards in the 70's there was little variety.  Basically you bought the one deck and 2 books the shop offered and had to be satisfied with that. But things have certainly bloomed since then! 

Every so often I just Google tarot images to see what comes up,  and this time I was floating around Pinterest (isn’t that a way to kill an hour or three!) and came across the Tarot Gardens in Tuscany   

 

I’ve never heard of them before,  but they have some amazing sculpture by Niki de Saint Phalle based on the Major Arcana tarot cards.  I particularly loved her version of the Hierophant, who really does look like this in my head too

More beautiful images from the garden here and on so many pinterest boards!  As a friendly warning, don’t go there after midnight or you won’t get to bed till 2 am!

Teaching Tarot

The kind people from Evolver approached me and asked if I would offer a course in Tarot to their readership.  I created a 4 session course,  4 Wednesday nights in a row,  starting in 2 weeks - February,  27th.  We have a maximum of 10 spots available,  and the entire course will cost $200.

If you want to know more,  click here to go to the Evolver page,  or contact me.

So looking forward to it!

Fourth Year Anniversary

I've been writing this blog for 4 years now.  It's been a source of real joy for me. Initially I wrote it to show people that I am informed about the tarot. And indeed, I’ve gone through every single tarot card (just type the card you are interested in the left hand corner near the B, blog symbol and it will come up.) 

I’ve gone through the layout I use – Celtic Cross,  I’ve gone through the numbers,  what does it mean if you get lots of Aces etc…   I’ve written about issues as they have come up  - fertility, love,  what the cards reveal.  I’ve had people write to me that they dipped in for a minute and stayed for 20, which gives me great pleasure. 

Tarot is not a tool to say that on March 23^rd you are going to meet a talk dark handsome stranger. It doesn’t ever claim to be able to predict in that way.  Tarot is a tool to see where your energy is strong and where it is stickier.  Where you can easily crest the wave (it’s a good time to look for new work /new opportunities at the existing work place right now) or where you need to shift (whatever you are doing to find a new job, it’s not working; it’s time to rethink and re-strategize your plans.)

If you come to me we always start with a cold reading, where I know nothing of you and just tell you what the cards tell me.  And then we analyze those cards – where do they work for us, where do we need to change, what’s not going to happen, what are we willing to do… 

Very pleased to have reached this point and looking forward to writing up the fifth year anniversary too… 

Motherhood

 

A new father came for a tarot reading with me and one of his questions was about his wife, and he drew sun / 8 of swords / strength – and I think that is the most perfect description of early motherhood that I’ve heard in a long time – sun,  happy,  warm,  bright,  8 of swords,  trapped,  scared,  unable to see clearly  but then she gets to that very feminine version of strength,  where her clarity and calmness makes the lion fall in line…   

Now doesn’t that sound like the mother of a 3 month old to you?

An Inauguration

 It is such an exceptional day, that we inaugurate a President and celebrate Martin Luther King at the same time.  What I so admire about Dr. King, is that he both spoke beautiful and powerful words, but he also backed them up with strong and true actions.  I wish that all our leaders did the same, that their actions and words were congruent. 

 

And I wish that for all of us too… when our words match our actions, we get both peace and synchronicity.  Coincidences, energies, miracles - they start weaving around us and events start to progress in our lives. The prophecy of the Begin It Now poem starts to take effect.

That’s my blessing for us today – may our intentions and our actions work together and may we get the results we want.

New Year's plans...

by Kaaria Mucherera

 

January, New year, is often a time for introspection – what are my plans for this year, what do I hope to accomplish. 

 

Truzzles,  by Frank Paris

 

A Tarot card reading helps clarify those plans and see where the energy is flowing for you, and where it is stickier.  I always tell everyone that nothing in the cards is set in stone, there is always free will and there is always random chance that things will happen. But what the cards do very well is see where your energy is strongest - where things are just falling into your lap - and where it needs shoring up.

 

By Shiloh Sophia

Sometimes we chose to focus on the strong energy, riding that wave. Sometimes during a reading the person sees that what they are doing is not getting them the results they want and they have to change, to shift that energy, if they are going to get the outcomes they want. Either way, the cards help plot out what you plan to do for this coming year. 



New Year, New Energy

Elizabeth Golden,  from Last Door, Down the Hall blog

I’m not big on numbers, I didn’t buy into the Mayan end of the world thing at all, but I do like new year’s.  It feels like a fresh page in a new book; we can start again. 

I’m not big on New Year’s resolutions either, though I do like the idea of giving up an old bad habit. It takes 90 consecutive days to lay down the neural pathway in your brain for a new habit to form,  I always visualize a path in the jungle.  If you skip a day, the vines start growing back, you start at zero.  Ninety is a big number,  but I’ve managed to go to skim milk and if I drink full cream it’s too rich and fatty for me now,  so I know it’s possible.  Now I know if I go to the gym for 90 days in a row,  I will sincerely miss it if I don’t go on the 91^st day,  it’s just getting those first 90 days down!

The idea I heard that I liked is whenever something good happens to you this year – large or small, write it on a small piece of paper and put it in your good luck jar. At the end of the year, next New Year ’s Eve, you can read all those small notes and see the luck/gratitude that you had all year… that’s a nice one that works for me.

So I wish you lots of small happy notes, and a few huge ones, and a good year ahead for us all.