Category Archives: Tarot Cycle

Tarot Cycle: The Empress, April 21 – May 21, 2012

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Venus: Photo by Universal History Archive/ Getty Images

The Empress

The fourth card in the Tarot Cycle becomes the Empress. She is a powerful heraldress of the earth’s primal energies forming, full and ready for birth. She is the Mother, nurturing, germinating, fecund, full and pregnant with possibility. She can be Venus, as her crown of stars in the Tarot signifies with the blessing of all heavenly lights, a Titan of love, beauty, and art (among other things) and yet she can also be seen as Demeter, motherly in all forms, even the mother protector as she is when her daughter is taken into the underworld. The underworld where all things break down, mulch, decay into the minerals and things that will nurture the new life (seeds of things to come) that will break the surface of the upper world one day and be life on the light side again.

This lunar cycle, turning of the wheel as we pass into Taurus, we find the Empress and she is the smiling woman of tides unseen rising up within and around us.  Continue reading →

Journey Journal: Focus, Dilation and the Priestess

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AH! I feel like I haven’t been able to play at Lifencompass in a long time! Meanwhile new folks have started conversations and “huzzas!” with me, and I’m working the wheel of Chi at school, tending home, keeping the flow with clients and looking over at my site calling out, “I miss you blog!” It’s amazing how a few conscious choices can change everything. Energy work doesn’t need a bang and a flash, sometimes the most subtle of intents can create the most lasting changes.

Yes, well, I have a lot to dive into here with this post, it’s been in the spiritual slow cooker all week having started on Easter and blending all the flavors of the week into the big bubbly pot that this is now. Food for thought, it is! 

I begin this entry with an introduction taken from earlier posts on the Social Network Feed:

Blog Notes: Journey Journal

Tarot Cycle three is coming to a close this moon and we’re dancing with the energy of the priestess. Notes on the journey:

(1) All is Mind, The Universe is Mental and occasionally I am too.
(2) :p
(3) Perspective = Little person in vast landscape; one woman and the big moon, drawing in the light; the mystery of all things is large and small.
(4) Ideas, all ideas need room. Seeking ritual or the ecstatic to free the mind.
(5) DILATE THE MINDS EYE

Goal: The end of this meditative cycle, 2012 – The Hermit, inner light revealed “bring it back, sing it back” to the community.

Sunday afternoon we spent the day with family. It isn’t a religious observation but a true and good family gathering of food and conversation, making connections and checking in with the ones you care about. Among the many topics of conversation including 50 Shades of Grey, movies, politics and massage –oh and how great the food was!– a family friend arrived and began a more inspired discussion about consciousness, the nature of reality, and our drivers seat in it. His buoyant energy spun the fire under the mental pot and I really started to simmer. 

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Tarot Cycle: March New Moon, High Priestess

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Just a few notes on the Journey if you are just joining me. The Tarot Cycle is a demonstration of personal evolution using the Keys of the Tarot, in harmony with the lunar cycle, and displayed here at Lifencompass as an offering. I felt like this year of all years, was the perfect time to take initiative in my life and demonstrate that journey in readings, poetry, art, and doing. The Tarot Cycle is a reading but not a forecast of the “future,” the Tarot in this case are used as personal, alchemical, tools of transformation. Sign posts of influences and energies.

I draw on the personal and the collective to create the monthly forecast, and it is encouraged to pull the monthly card and draw your own cards in a reading to see what influences you may be experiencing. Maybe you can see something in my tarot spreads but you will probably receive more if you likewise draw the cards and contemplate them. All things connected, lots of possibilities, I hope that my words and poetry inspire others to find within themselves the light, energy, and focus to light the way forward for their own self.

That is the Goal of the first part of the Tarot Cycle, The Hermit as an archetype, finding our own inner light and bringing it out. Leaving the life we are expected to live and finding the life we are meant to live. You can read more about the Tarot Cycle, intent, and catch up here at Lifencompass. 

On the heels of the fool… I bring you Cycle Three: The Priestess. 

Water and Light

Welcome back to the Tarot Cycle, The third moon of this month has begun to wax. Out of darkness, reflecting light in the night sky. Illumination grows. This morning, amidst candles and smoke, working with a new tool (thank you Stang & Cauldron) and journeying into the spiritual sky I get the following.  

Remember that the Priestess is the channel, becoming the wisdom. She is not the light she is the energy of light on water, and that is warmth. She is not the reflection she is the dazzling interaction of energy entering stillness. She is dark and light, she is the Priestess. The drawing of cards came in three rays, twice. I have included them in two images below…

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Tarot Cycle: February New Moon, The Magus.

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Between here, Tarot Cycle post #3 and when I began in January, a dialogue started with the Tarot. I believe it began when I started to collect my thoughts and feel out the path between the Magician and the Foolish Man.

There was a path… An interesting note where the Fool is any person and he, or she, is leaving the mundane and entering the mystical along a path that mediates between the highest light perceivable and the process, that I will name as “ritual” or one of the transcendent paths that heighten consciousness, leads one out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary.

The fool is the person coming to circle, the sacred. His companion, the little dog, ever protective is the barking mind. He is the last leg of the mundane world as he steps off into nothing, you see this is the way when we do open and we step out of the “normal” world and into the magickal.

Here we find ourself in readiness and motion, preparing to take another step like the fool but this time with the skilled a prepared power of ritual, rote, and the practiced paths. Continue reading →