 Lua Lenormand ©2020 Maree Bento Full Moon in Virgo reading from the Lua Lenormand. Stars + Moon + Snake shows the twists and turns of creativity and intuitive clarity. It can be a circuitous path of your purpose and destiny.
Full Moon in Virgo wants us to refine our purpose and tap into productivity, to put our emotions second. This can feel like a paradox as the Full Moon wants us to fully feel them.
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Last year I acquired this biography on Paschal Beverly Randolph, 19th-century Black American trance medium, occultist, writer, and sex magician born October 8th, 1825. (Sun in Libra, Moon in Leo, and a Venus Jupiter conjunction in Virgo—fascinating given his work on the occult and sex magic!)
This biographic tome is dense and detailed, making it a slow read for me, but it's so interesting full of incredible accounts of Randolph’s life. John Patrick Deveney, an academic occultist, wrote in depth about Randolph’s spiritual and magical methodologies and philosophy in a scholarly yet accessible way. This biography (no, history book!) at 600 pages also offers mini-biographies of other spiritualists of his time, which shows the extent of the circles that Randolph participated in. Beyond scholarly, this is a historical and fascinating account of a mage whose work is considered to be the forerunner of modern occultism, along with Madame H. P. Blavatsky and Aleister Crowley, whose works & societies were in part influenced by Randolph.  Thank you, Stuart R. Kaplan, for bringing Pamela Colman Smith and Arthur Edward Waite’s work to the masses and for helping to awaken the Tarot in the USA. Your passion and dedication will never be forgotten. May you rest peacefully on the wings of eternity. Peaceful blessings to those close who are grieving. Working with my pre-1974 Rider Tarot Deck today in honor of Mr. Kaplan. (In 1970, he reissued the RWS Tarot, which had been out-of-print at that point in time.) The Hierophant came out and I wondered what his Tarot cards were. His birthday, which US Games listed today as April 1st, 1932, shows his Tarot cards as Judgement and The High Priestess. So, I placed them with the Hierophant. ⠀ The Eternal Student; a Teacher who Awakens Secret Knowledge.
 Lua Tarot and Antiquarian Tarot Reading Spread Anyone else feeling this Swords-y energy at this Lunar New Year? Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, and the Sun & Moon are ALL currently vibrating in Aquarius energy.
With the Aquarius vibes, most Tarotists would think of The Star card, which perhaps does reflect the macrocosmic reality, but I’m not sensing that as strongly right now. I am sensing microcosmic mundane world in these three Swords cards today. |
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