Maybe a goal you’ve chosen this year involves this…
Knight of Cups: An act of love
You might feel this…
Judgement: A call to serve others
In which case you’re this…
King of Wands: My hero
My resolution this year was this…
Three of Cups: Start up a dinner club with friends to experience the amazing food we have here in Melbourne.
However, this happened…
The Tower: Omicron
And my friends…
Eight of Cups Reversed: Don’t want to go anywhere outside their comfort zone
So I joined a bushwalking club instead…
The Empress: Enjoying nature
This week my youngest daughter said she would join my dinner club. We went to this high-energy Japanese eating house in the city, Yakimono, where I enjoyed the most wonderful smoked paprika raw tuna steak AND spent precious time with a child who is always super busy…
Nine of Cups: Feeling sated
So I get to participate in two new hobbies this year #win
We’re in the pause between Christmas and New Year. A time many have off from work. In some ways, this is my favourite part of the Christmas season. The manic rush of Christmas has passed and there is time before the New Year to reflect. But maybe you prefer another part?
Let’s explore the different stages of the Christmas Season…
We decorate the house…
Ten of Pentacles: Taking part in valued traditions
Catch up with friends for a drink…
Three of Cups: Socialising
Buy presents…
Six of Pentacles: Giving and receiving
Rush around like mad at the end to get everything done…
Ten of Wands: Being overextended
By Christmas Eve, you hopefully begin to feel this…
Ace of Cups: Spiritually renewed
Beit through your faith, by listening to carols, or by spending time with loved ones.
On Christmas Day we spend time with family.
Hopefully, it felt like this…
Ten of Cups: Counting your blessings
Rather than this…
Three of Swords: Reigniting old heartaches
Maybe by the end of the day you experienced this…
Nine of Cups Reversed: Food coma or other over-indulgence
We now have a week between Christmas and New Year.
Which is a great time for this…
Four of Swords: Restful contemplation
Before the new year comes around.
When we do this…
Ace of Swords: Set a clear direction for the next twelve months
What is your favourite stage of the Christmas season?
World leaders at the G7 summit in England this week added fuel to the flames of the most pressing conspiracy theory of our times: Did Covid-19 escape from a Chinese lab?
Let’s explore the Tarot of this a little, shall we?
The origins of the current world-wide coronavirus epidemic are currently unknown…
The Moon: Hidden depths
But from the start, various media commentators have speculated that the virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology…
Page of Swords: Developing A Theory
The most compelling evidence for this is probably…
Death: The fact that Wuhan was the epicentre for the first large-scale outbreak
Meanwhile, scientists around the world have continued to insist this virus spread from animals…
Eight of Pentacles Reversed: It’s not man-made
Although that doesn’t rule out the lab completely, as the Wuhan Institute stores samples of the closest-known relative to Covid-19…
Seven of Swords Reversed: Acting suspicious
These samples were collected in 2012 when some miners fell sick with a mysterious illness…
Temperance Reversed: Feeling unwell
The Chinese virologist whose work is at the centre of these allegations insisted in a recent interview that the claims are baseless…
Knight of Swords Reversed: Feeling slandered
However, China’s ongoing refusal to allow an independent investigation into the lab makes this hard to believe…
The Moon Reversed: Muddying the waters
The High Priestess Reversed: Feeling unsure
If certain leaders didn’t seem hell-bent on blaming the Chinese for this epidemic, they might be more willing to co-operate.
The death of Prince Phillip, consort to Queen Elizabeth, has made news around the world this week. Let’s dive into the Tarot of this a little bit, shall we?
With his passing, Britain has been plunged into this…
Five of Cups: Mourning
The British press has been united in lauding him…
Knight of Cups: The knight in shining armour
Even though they spent years doing this…
Five of Swords: Sticking in the knives
Prince Phillip was definitely…
The Emperor Reversed: A fallible man (aren’t we all?)
However, he was also…
King of Wands: A man of great achievements
I currently run a Duke of Edinburgh club at the school where I teach. Prince Phillip created this award scheme to encourage personal growth in young people. It has been incredibly successful in this endeavour for many decades, and I am proud to be a part of it.
But perhaps his greatest achievement was this…
The Lovers + Queen of Pentacles: Supporting his wife and queen
It wasn’t easy for him to always walk two steps behind the queen, but he did.
Judgement: Serving a higher good
He had to give up this completely…
The Fool: Freedom to do what he wanted when he wanted
His experience must have felt a lot like this at times…
Like many others, I spent the Christmas-New Year period glued to Bridgerton on Netflix. An 8 part series produced by the wonderful Shonda Rhimes. Based on a series of Regency romances written by Julia Quinn in the noughties.
Let’s investigate the Tarot of Bridgerton, shall we?
Obviously, it falls under this category…
The Lovers: Romance
As is typical of this literary genre, the female protagonist Daphne is…
The Fool: A naive ingenue
And the male protagonist, the Duke of Hastings, is…
Knight of Wands + The Devil: Dashing and damaged
They both come from…
Ten of Wands: Wealthy families
The plot is centred around Daphne’s attempt to…
Four of Cups: Get married to another member of the ton – a word used to reflect a member of English high society during this period of history
In order to improve her chances of appearing desirable, and, so he can avoid appearing available, she and the Duke make a pact to…
The Lovers Reversed: Pretend to fall in love
And we all know what happens when characters pretend to be in love…
The Magician: They create that reality!
But before there is any chance of a happily ever after…
Seven of Wands: They must battle many obstacles…
Not least of which is…
The Moon: Their own personal faults
One of the things I love about this series is the rich array of supporting characters, whose own stories are explored in some depth.
There’s the eldest Bridgerton son, Anthony, head of Daphne’s family…
The Emperor Reversed: A dysfunctional autocrat
Daphne’s mother, who sometimes provides…
The High Priestess Reversed: Terrible counsel
My personal favourite is Eloise, Daphne’s slightly younger sister…
Seven of Wands + The Empress: A raging feminist
Also notable is Eloise’s best friend, Penelope Featherington…
Three of Cups Reversed: The wallflower at every ball
There’s also the mysterious Lady Whistledown, who provides biting commentary on the London season, without ever revealing her true identity…
Knight of Swords Reversed + Seven of Swords: A sneaky barbed wit
Bridgerton has been brilliantly created by Shonda’s protege, Chris Van Duesen, who is an absolute…
King of Wands: Master of his craft
The tone is…
Six of Cups: Hyper-reality
The books and the era have been…
Wheel of Fortune: Given a modern spin.
This allows the series to have interesting conversations about…
The Empress + The World: The role of women in society
Seven of Swords: Cheated of a normal childhood/young adulthood
If you’re middle-aged, you might be feeling like this…
Two of Pentacles + Seven of Wands: Juggling never-ending battles
If you’re old or have serious health conditions, you might be feeling like this…
The Devil + Death: Terrified of dying
Wherever you’re at, Christmas is a time to stop and remember…
The Christmas Star: There is ALWAYS hope…
Life CAN get better. We could be just around the corner from a turning point in our fight against the virus currently plaguing our planet. You could be one interview away from a much-needed job. One phone call away from loving support.
As Tarot reminds us, nothing lasts forever…
Wheel of Fortune: Life goes up AND down (not just down)
Wishing you and your loved ones a healthy and happy Christmas together!
Ten of Cups: Happy families (in whatever form they come for you!)
As a Christmas gift, you can read the first chapter of my Tarot Teaclub series now published on Amazon for free on Christmas Day. Just click on the link below…
Despite terrible reviews, I’m a big fan of the apocalyptic Netflix show, ‘The Rain’. In the penultimate episode of the entire series, my favourite character, Martin, bit the dust.
He reminded me a lot of my last boyfriend.
Six of Cups: Remembering happy times
Only better!
Knight of Cups: The ideal man
However, my mini-breakdown wasn’t about the character on tv, or even the old boyfriend.
It was about this..
The Fool + Two of Cups: The possibility of relationship
I was distressed that his partner lost the chance to grow old with him.
Which was a reflection of my distress at not having a life partner like him myself.
This is a classic example of this card…
Three of Swords: Opening old wounds
For no good reason, I felt consumed by grief.
Five of Cups: Crying over what you’ve lost, despite the good things in your life
The Three of Swords comes up when you’re reminded of a loss.
Even though you’ve done this…
Eight of Cups: Well and truly moved on
In fact, you feel like this…
Nine of Pentacles: Very content with your life
We all carry wounds in our hearts.
The longer we’ve lived, the more knives to the chest we’ve experienced.
People we’ve loved and lost.
Times when we were hurt deeply.
The important thing is not to be over-whelmed by these injuries.
Not to do this…
King of Cups Reversed: Drown your sorrows
Or this…
Six of Cups Reversed: Lose yourself in nostalgia or fantasy
Or even this…
The Moon Reversed: Succumb to a drug fuelled haze.
But right now, non-whites are incarcerated and killed by law enforcement at higher rates than whites. So that’s where the focus needs to be. Including in my own country of Australia.
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