http://spiritblooms.gaiastream.com Look for meaning in everything, and you'll find it. Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:38:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Fool asks --- Am I in control of what's happening? Or are other forces at work? Does it matter? Modern tarotists sometimes relate the Fool to the planet Uranus, but in the era in which we first know that Tarot existed, this was impossible, since no one yet knew Uranus ... http://spiritblooms.gaiastream.com/2009/08/23/2009-tarot-study-the-fool/ Every now and then my cat Tara decides to look for new sleeping perches and hiding places. It's as if she sees the whole house with new eyes, and notices things she never has before. Dark shadows open up into cozy corners. Vast heights are brought down to her level. ... http://spiritblooms.gaiastream.com/2009/07/02/seeing-tarot-with-new-eyes/ Today is World Tarot Day, and I blogged about it on my fiction-writing blog, over at Mystery of a Shrinking Violet: World Tarot Day. See you there, I hope. http://spiritblooms.gaiastream.com/2009/05/25/world-tarot-day/ This past week's card was the Death card, number XIII. In many older Tarot decks, the Fool wasn't numbered, and card XIII was never named. Many Death cards depict a skeleton wielding a scythe as it mows down kings, clergymen, rich and poor, powerful and lowly alike, thus portraying La Mort ... http://spiritblooms.gaiastream.com/2009/05/02/2009-tarot-study-xiii-death/ The Twos in Tarot can be dualistic, bipolar, two-faced, and filled with conflict or tension. They can push or pull in two directions, or unite somewhere in the middle in a tense, semi-structured and semi-permanent balance. Their energy can also build to a release point that will occur in the ... http://spiritblooms.gaiastream.com/2009/03/28/2009-tarot-study-twos/