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Throwback Thursday: The Holy Book of Tarot – Maturity
I’ve written before about how Tarot contains a holy book that charts the journey of a human soul through all the stages and experiences of life. I call these cards Life Lessons Tarot, although they’re better known as the Major Arcana.
These lessons are divided into three parts.
We’ve already looked at the first two parts in recent weeks: Childhood & Adulthood.
The third volume is a guide to becoming not just a functioning adult, but a mature one.
These last seven cards of Tarot’s Holy Book are the most intense to live through. They will shake, rattle and roll your world. But if you can manage their energies in a positive way, you get to hit the jackpot. You get The World!
They can be described as follows…
Continue readingThe Tarot of a Music Festival
I recently attended a music festival in my home state of Victoria, Australia.
Not something I do all the time but it reminded me that I should, because you get to experience this card in abundance…
Continue readingThe Tarot of a World Gone Mad
Is it just me or does life feel challenging at the moment?
There’s the rising cost-of-living, testing political situations, devastating fires (or floods or other climate events), needless wars, and online bots dedicated to spreading lies about everything. It’s like the ground beneath us has shifted in recent times, making it hard for us to stay afloat.
Which is this card…
Continue readingThe Tarot of the Northern Winter Solstice
The celebration of the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere has ancient roots…
The Moon: Hidden Depths
Going back thousands of years, possibly tens of thousands of years, maybe even hundreds of thousands of years, into prehistory.
And it’s not hard to see why!
December 21st marks this…
Wheel of Fortune: A turning point
It’s when the Earth pauses in its tilt away from the Sun, before heading back towards the light.
This is a truly significant moment in the year and would have had deep meaning for our ancestors.
The Earth turns towards the light just before the northern hemisphere is plunged into the bleakness of the most challenging winter months, when the weather is freezing and food scarce…
Five of Pentacles: Hard times
The winter solstice commemoration was created to remind us during the darkest of times that the world is turning back towards the light.
It is a celebration of this…
The Star: Hope
And is the true origins of the Christmas festival we now celebrate at this time of the year.
Jesus is another symbol of hope for us.
Of a way we can move forward towards the light.
Just as Tarot is too!
The Tarot of the Most Locked Down City in The World
Yes! I live in the place that has been crowned the most locked down city in the world over the past two years: Melbourne, Australia!
It’s been a journey, to put it mildly. We’ve endured six seperate lockdowns, each one more miserable than the last.
Right from the start, our state government did this…
The Emperor: Imposed strict rules
It was actually amazing how compliant everyone was!
We started off like this…
Page of Wands: Developing new skills
Baking sourdough, taking up crochet, improving our ability to work and play online.
We made lots of this…
Page of Swords + Temperance: Plans to improve our work-life balance
Some did this…
Knight of Wands + The Empress: Moved to the country
Many felt this…
Judgement: A call to serve others
People set up Facebook groups to support their community, gave money to charity, reached out to neighbours.
Some made the experience harder…
Knight of Swords: Sections of the media
With their sniping on the sidelines and their personal political agendas.
But others made it easier to do this…
The Star: Hold onto hope
Medical scientists and healthcare workers, those who went above and beyond to help through this crisis, friends on WhatsApp groups.
That was 2020.
2021 has been much worse.
There was a lot more of this between political leaders and from media commentators…
Five of Wands + Ace of Wands: Fighting for ideological supremacy
Which…
Judgement Reversed: Shattered our sense of community
And was a factor in increased…
The Tower: Mental breakdowns
And for some led to this…
The Star Reversed: Despair
People were either…
Five of Pentacles: Feeling poor
Due to businesses being unable to trade and government subsidies being withdrawn.
Or this…
Ten of Swords: Mentally drained
From being asked to work under challenging conditions.
I’ve worked six days a week for the last two years, as well as writing, and I’m in the latter category.
Up until September I felt I was doing this…
Two of Pentacles: Juggling my responsibilities nicely
But then I finished The Empress and suddenly barely had the energy to publish it, let alone write any more.
My brain just stopped working…
Ace of Swords Reversed: Unable to think clearly
And it’s only just coming back online now.
The inability to think on a deep level is definitely a symptom of this…
Nine of Swords: The ongoing stress of managing life in lockdown.
Which is why I won’t be publishing the next chapter in my Tarot series tomorrow.
I’m not sure when I’ll finish it. Maybe by the end of January, maybe not till next March.
Which is kind of funny, considering the next chapter is this…
The Emperor: Meeting deadlines
Guess this is a card I need to work on in my own life, lol!
More than anything in Melbourne, we have felt this, especially during the past six months…
Three of Swords: Brokenhearted
From being unable to spend time with friends and family – again!
From missing much-needed holidays we were looking forward to – again!
From being cooped up at home alone – again!
My Christmas wish for this year is that you get to do this…
Four of Wands + Ten of Cups: Spend the holiday season with family
Thinking of you all!
The Tarot of Christmas 2020
It’s been a hard year.
The hardest ever for many.
You may be feeling like this…
Five of Pentacles: Without hope
Or like this…
Ten of Wands: Overburdened with cares
Or like this…
Ten of Swords: Mentally drained
If you’re young, you may be feeling like this…
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…
Commencement 2020
Thanks to the coronavirus, commencement speeches have been forced online this year.
Whilst it obviously isn’t the same as having a real-life graduation, it’s been wonderful to see so many prominent members of our community take time to remember the Class of 2020.
But what lessons would Tarot wish to convey to graduates?
I believe we find the answer in the last line of the Major Arcana. Or as I like to call it, the Life Lessons section of the Tarot deck. Let’s take a look, shall we?
The Tarot of 2020
Throwback Thursday: The Holy Book Part 3
I’ve written before about how Tarot contains a holy book that charts the journey of a human soul through all the stages and experiences of life. I call these cards Life Lessons Tarot. But they’re better known as the Major Arcana.
These lessons are divided into three parts. We’ve already looked at the first two parts this year: Childhood & Adulthood. The third volume represents maturity.
This is the scary part. These cards will shake, rattle and roll your world. The last seven cards of Tarot’s Holy Book are the most intense to live through. But if you can manage these energies in a positive way you get to hit the jackpot. You get The World!
They can be described as follows…
Continue reading
The Tarot Teaclub 