 Prepping for my ritual tonight: the black (dark) candle represents what I want to see decreased as the nights grow smaller. The white (light) candle represents what I want to see grow as the days become longer.
Today is Spring and it is a beautiful, sunshine-filled day! We want to socialize and share in the buzz of excitement as the Sun brings life back to the Earth’s Northern Hemisphere.
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 Hourglass Nebula Spring Equinox is exact tonight at 8:49pm PST (0° Aries) with the waning Dark Moon in Aquarius. While it is beautiful and sunshine-y here in Oregon, we’re asked to practice social distancing, when what we really want to do is socialize and share in the buzz of excitement as the Sun brings life back to the earth in the Northern Hemisphere.
Spring Equinox is the time to celebrate the sign of life’s return from Winter. However, it’s also a time to honor the balance of light and dark, since the Equinox splits the day and night equally. During the Spring and Fall Equinoxes we honor balance. The Sun rises directly in the East and sets directly in the West.  This morning, Rachel Pollack’s presentation, Tarot as a Medium: Readings to Communicate with the Dead, was incredible!
She talked about some tarot cards and their potential meaning when they show up in a reading with the dead. She also shared two spreads one could use to communicate between the living person and the dead person.  Title card from the Wheel of Change Tarot, 1997 We started off the year with some positive energy last week! We're into week two and there are already three potent cosmic events, making it an intense start—and not the best way—to the year.
The Cancer Lunar Eclipse is Friday January 10th at 11:21 am (not visible from America). The year begins with Full Moon in Cancer and we will end the year with one too (though December 29th won’t be an eclipse)! This puts a spotlight on feminine energy (Cancer is a super feminine and maternal sign). This year will bring more awareness to the topic of feminine empowerment and leadership.  Happy Solar New Year and Merry Yule! Here’s a spread you can use for your Solstice reflection. This is my personal reading, which I’ve thrown, but have not turned the cards yet. I plan to sit with it tonight. I wanted to share it here in case you wanted a tarot spread for your own Solstice contemplation.
*Update: Sold Out in my shop.* I am thrilled to be hosting the Nosotras Tarot! I have not sold another's deck creation before, but I felt compelled to invite Elisa Riemer and Paula Mariá to sell their gorgeous tarot deck in my USA-based shop. One reason I wanted to host this was because I am really struck by the collage artwork and overall energy of the deck. There are so many interesting and magical details throughout. Plus, I love finding decks with titles in Portuguese! I'm Luso-American and it's lovely to support fellow Lusitanic collage artists and tarotists. Read on for my review of the deck.  Divine Muses Oracle, Santa Muerte Tarot, and Santos & Signs Oracle A message from our global Ancestors on All Souls Day: CELEBRATE life! This is our time now and we only have so much left. PLEDGE to give more than you take (6 of Pents). Be of service (Queen of Roses). Take up a cause or support one that you deeply care about because when you do something that ignites your passion you open up to the FLOW of the universe.
This is how the power of love and harmony (Two of Cups) is engaged in our lives. Don’t forget that the Ancestors live through us (through our DNA, the earth and history) and that we can COMMUNE with them at any time, not just when the veils are thinnest. Many November blessings!  Front of the coffin box. Lo Scarabeo is celebrating 30 years with this limited numbered edition of 1,987 copies to honor the year they were founded in Italy. The gorgeous, colorful artwork is by Fabio Listrani, artist of the Night Sun Tarot.
LS says this limited edition is printed on the highest quality paper. It is, indeed, a thicker card stock, but it's also glossier than their standard decks. At first glance, I like how the suit colors are similar to the Albano-Waite Tarot's coloration system. Brigit of Biddy Tarot invited me to do an interview for her podcast. We talked all about the Antiquarian Tarot, my process of creating it, and a little bit about my journey as a card reader and healer. I met Brigit this year at the Northwest Tarot Symposium (NWTS) in Portland, Oregon. She flew in from Australia to do a workshop. It was a real pleasure to meet her and an honor to be invited on her podcast. One of the things I love about the Biddy Tarot podcast is the transcripts she makes available for the podcasts. Sometimes we can't listen to an interview for one reason or another, so it is really convenient to be able to read it. If you can't listen now, scroll down below the podcast for the full transcript of the interview. I hope you enjoy it!  Happy Samhain! Here is something a little different—a leisurely browse through some Halloween decks in my collection. A kind of creepy fun Show and Tell. Grab a cup of something hot and spiced—this one is almost half an hour long. I hope you will enjoy this video of me chatting about some wicked tarot and oracles.
Here are the decks mentioned in the video: Exciting news! The Antiquarian Tarot Companion Guidebook is almost finished. I have an editor doing another pass through it before I send it to the book printer. Also, the last details of the book cover are coming together.
I am feeling really close to completion. It is looking like an early September release at the latest. The Antiquarian Tarot deck will be re-released with the book. Thanks for your patience and support!  Decks I took to the 2016 NWTS. Antiquarian Lenormand in black tin. Antiquarian Tarot with pouch.  Smith-Waite Tarot in a tin vs PCS Commemorative Set Recently, I bought the Smith-Waite Tarot Deck Centennial Edition in a tin and compared it to the Pamela Colman Smith (PCS) Commemorative Set (2009) on video. In the video, I went through the whole set. There is the major difference in size and similar card stock feel, but the artwork and color of the decks are identical.
I like the deck that comes with the commemorative edition, but I avoid using it since I see it as a collectors edition and want to keep it in the best condition possible. I'm really enjoying the mini size and portability of the cards in a tin. It is smaller, but it loses no detail. And, it feels good in my hands! (See video and picture of size comparisons below.) Here's a video I shot showing all of the cards last year, which I never posted. The soundtrack has music by Dream Lodge, David's and my band project. The tracks, High Desert Star and The Lodge, are recent releases from our vinyl record EP (six tracks), which will be released this Saturday. The two tracks are available to download now. You can have the vinyl record mailed to you after the official release date, August 1st, 2015. There is a digital download card that comes with each record. You may order it here if you'd like a copy. Thanks for your support!
 Symbolism
Astro glyph: Capricorn Hebrew Letter: Ayin (meaning Eye) Color: Blue-violet (Indigo) Keyword: Bondage Golden Dawn Title: The Lord of the Gates of Matter, The Child of the Forces of Time Meaning: a card about materialism, boundaries and limitations; a time to look at our fears, illusions, indulgences, attachments, addictions and obsessions; being a slave to temptation or to something and/or someone; feeling disconnected from your spiritual side; becoming self-destructive; having inner chaos and doubt; the ego and shadow stuff; needing to look at the un-evolved aspects of oneself; embracing the dark side of our nature. |
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