78 & change

rosy lens

How do I solve my cups problems? I throw pentacles at them. Yesterday I went to my local indie bookstore and picked up two new tarot books as well as the Lioness Oracle Tarot deck. I’ve been circling around this deck for a while; the art is so stunning and juicy that you can’t look…

drained cup

I’ve been pretty zapped empath-wise the past week; dear friends have been going through some difficult times, and I’ve found myself flat on my back for the rest of the night, as if I were a blinking empty battery. I’ve also had a bit of impostor syndrome going on — a class I want to…

where did the spring go?

It’s been just about two months since I last posted, which is way longer than I anticipated/planned. (I took this photo in February, so that *really* tells you how long it’s been.) It took me a while to unpack my cards and my office; there’s definitely an energy shift in the new room that I’m…

drive or drag

I have barely touched my cards in the last few weeks; in true Chariot year fashion, I jumped on a new lease and am now packing up my Taurus homebody life. (Sometimes to my chagrin — I packed all of my tea and then immediately wanted a cup of tea I could no longer have….

side-by-side: three of wands

Me: Gosh, why am I having such a hard time reading non-RWS decks for other people? Also me, realizing on taking this picture: Three of my five decks are Marseilles-style decks. February’s card, based on my 2019 spread, is the Three of Wands. Three in a family, that’s a magic number. I will admit that…

spike

I keep thinking, I need to write something, I need to write something. But it’s been hard to get myself to the computer. I’ve been pulling my daily cards and have been doing a specific spread (that I made up!) for the past few days. I’m getting Ace of Pentacles repeatedly — it was my…

side-by-side: the world

January’s just about wrapped up, so it’s time to look back at my January card from my 2019 twelve month spread — the World. In my day job, January is very much a month of tying up loose ends from the previous year; it’s very common for me to have to fix the autocorrect from 2019…

the rws is mad at me

It’s fair to say that the RWS is not the deck I reach for most often; I’ve clicked well with the Wanderer’s Tarot and the Wild Unknown, I’m intrigued by the challenges of the Ophidia Rosa, and the Mucha deck is a nice RWS variation that, admittedly, I haven’t played with as much yet. That…

to-do

Is there anything more perfect for Ten of Wands than “I totally meant to do this yesterday but I didn’t have time”? Yesterday I finished my first tarot journal — I started it last January, stopped (gee!), and then picked it up again when tarot classes started in October. It’s got multiple readings, my class…

hangin’ out

For all my “oh my gosh this is my Chariot year, things are going to go SO FAST”, I’m finding myself more and more in the 2019 energy of the Hanged Man/Hanged One — feeling a little suspended, a little pensive. All I can really do while I wait is lean into it, and so…