In honor of World Tarot Day, I’d like to share this post I first published on my Mystery of a Shrinking Violet blog back in 2009, with a few updates, to honor some of the people of Tarot, including writers and artists that I think are rather special. By the way, I understand that today…
Category: Intuition and Insight
Posts about the intuitive arts such as astrology, tarot, oracles, and psychic studies.
Seeing Tarot with new eyes
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. Everything morphs into a new…
World Tarot Day
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.
Black holes, Yin-Yang, the Big Dipper, and the Wheel of the Year
I’ve always thought of Yin-Yang as a purely philosophical or even spiritual concept, one of integration, interdependence, and balance. I never thought of it having any connection to our physical universe as conceived by scientists. But according to two sites I came across today, it may originate from prehistoric observations of the Big Dipper — or the Plough, as the constellation is known in China — as it changes apparent position in the night sky through the course of a year.
Restoring Cosmic Order
Tarot of Transformation, 8 Balance. This card is a reminder that we are observed, or that what we do is somehow recorded. If not by other people or our own higher selves, then by the powers or laws of the universe.
Inner Seeing
Tarot of Transformation. This 6 of Wands is quite different from that of a traditional tarot. If there’s any kind of victory, it’s that of finally being able to contact one’s true self, one’s inner seeing.
Leaving the Story
The 10 of Swords is traditionally seen as a death card or a card of endings. But not necessarily a literal death. In this case it’s described more as a literary death, with the keywords “Leaving the Story.” We create our own stories, with our own lives as the settings and ourselves as the central characters. We choose to stay or go, in most situations of life.
Freeing Your Expression
Tarot of Transformation, 5 of Wands. There are five mushrooms in the scene, and they are the “wands,” described in the text as illustrating the organic movement of expression in their growth patterns.
Ignorance or Innocence?
0 The Fool: Ignorance or Innocence? The figure in this card wears a costume reminiscent of a harlequin, and a mask. The figure follows a star, but looks over their shoulder at a smaller figure who appears to be demanding attention.
Tarot of Transformation
Tarot of Transformation. I find these cards particularly healing in their images and messages. It’s almost like having a deck of 78 Major Arcana. To view images and reviews of Tarot of Transformation, visit creator Jasmin Cori’s Amazon Author Page, Creator Willow Arlenea’s Website. Willow Arlenea has a YouTube channel with some videos related to…