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September 13, 2018

Tarot and the Nature of Divinity

This article first appeared on the Llewellyn Journal, September 11th, 2018


 


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You are the universe. You are divine. You are pure consciousness. Everything you see, notice, observe, listen to, eat, laugh at, make fun of, enjoy and dislike, resist and surrender to is the universe seeing itself, understanding itself, and recognizing itself. What is true for you is true for the universe. What is true for the universe is true for you.


As above, so below.


This is why when you give love, you receive love.


[image error]You, like the Fool tarot card, are on a journey, quest, adventure. The journey of who you are, like a sacred circle, will lead you back yourself. The World circles back to the Fool card and begins the journey again. Your journey begins with you. It ends with you. You may travel to the edges of your backyard or to the far flung reaches of the world. It is the internal journey that matters. Everything else? Shadows and dust. The exterior world is energy changing form, a mere illusion. Your interior life, your inner roads, bear the mark of eternity.


Each day as you wake, the mystery of who you are unfolds a bit further. You move forward, backwards, or sideways on your respective path, closer to or further from your goals. You speed along on cruise control sometimes. Other times, you find yourself lost in thorny thickets or gasping for air in quicksand. We all instigate cause and effect with our actions and deeds.


We fill the world with our energy. We spend it wisely on things we love, reinvesting energy in ourselves or give it away to other people and things. Each day of our life, we step closer to death. August’s rich harvest and golden light surrenders into the deepening shadows of September’s equinox. It is worth surrendering to. It isn’t easy, but its beautiful. It is why we are here. Practice the art of surrender. If you let Summer’s passage into Fall be your teacher, you become more of who you are outside of linear time.


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A map is essential for any journey. These days, we use handy cell phone maps fitting snugly into the palm of our traveling hands. If you were around in the 1970s you’ll remember giant AAA travel maps found under vinyl seats and in the dusty glove compartments of our parents’ car. These maps became reading fodder during infernal road trips after the Mad Libs and fast food fries gave out. Ancient peoples crafted scroll maps by hand. Men and women looked to the firmament before paper’s invention. Constellations in a crystal clear, pollution-free night sky were used as a guide, plot, and plan.


Maps show us landscapes; they reveal the lay of the land so we can orient ourselves. Maps let us know where to find things like gas stations, convenience stores, and our friend’s house. Yet, the most most exciting maps, the most rarified, desired, and lusted for maps, maps that people have shed blood and lost their lives over, are treasure maps. If you are looking for the treasure map of your soul, look no further than a deck of Tarot cards for sale at your local bookshop.


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Tarot has been described as many things; an oracle, game, book, meditation and contemplative device, and more. Tarot is the ideal map because it presents you, the inner and outer life, in a sensible, precise, easy to read manner. It speaks with equal equity of the practical and the mysterious, the visible and invisible. The tarot, like you, is the microcosm and macrocosm.


Tarot offers possibility while reflecting precisely where you are on your journey. Tarot reflects infinite possibility because it communicates through symbol. Each of us fill symbols and cards with personal meaning, the way we read between the lines of poetry or prose. Poetry speaks through economy of words and silence. Silence, like dark matter or garden compost, contains all possibility. Tarot’s symbols communicate like poetry because symbolic meaning is felt. Visuals are ingested and move inside of us to take residence. They are ripe with wide open space. You illuminate the space with personal meaning.


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My latest book, Llewellyn’s Complete Book of the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot, offers a keen examination of the occult mapping of tarot. I put aside personal associations with the cards aside and went straight to Arthur Waite, the author and source of the RWS deck, to craft a book on the world’s most famous deck. I deconstructed his books and articles relating to the cards to understand his ultimate goal when creating the deck in 1909. Turns out, Waite was using the tarot as a mapping tool to express the nature of divinity.


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The nature of divinity was the last thing I was looking for when buying my first deck of tarot cards at age twelve.  Delicious, mysterious Halloween was all I could sense inside the cards. Black and orange jelly beans, bobbing for apples, witches with pointy hats and sugary orange pumpkins carved into silly and macabre faces. I wouldn’t have understood the phrase “nature of divinity” as a pre-teen. I did, however, hop off my bike often to lie back on a field. I enjoyed feeling myself tiny against an expansive summer sky or seeing luminous fall foliage flush through valleys blazing with color. It was a signature of things to come.


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Nature is the great equalizer of humanity. We all gaze at the same moon. No matter how we come to understand our existence, regardless of dogma, religion, system or rejection of systems used to explain our souls, life and the after-life, nature is the equalizer. The ocean remains the ocean. A mountain is a mountain. A flower is a flower. Nature contains the first archetypes.


Nature predates human personality. This is why myth and legend are elemental and grounded in mountains, sky, and ocean. Earthairfire, and water are reflected in tarot as PentaclesSwordsWands, and Cups. These are the symbolic elements we fill to the brim with personal meaning.


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The material world (Pentacles) is the place where we all meet each other while navigating the folds of our interior life. The earth contains everything you can touch, taste, see, feel, and smell. Pentacles are your soft body, your tasty dinner, your little black dress, the money you stuff in your wallet, your bedroom, your garden, etc. Everything else in the tarot and in our life is invisible. We experience and feel the passion of Wands when we desire a person or thing. We see Wands expressed in others through facial expressions and actions yet we are unable to hold passion in our hands. We experience the intellectuality of Swords, articulate ourselves through language, make calculations and see others doing the same yet we cannot taste or smell a thought itself. The emotional life of Cups often influences our every action. Our emotions can feel wonderful or horrifying yet you can’t literally hold love, fear, excitement, trepidation in your hands.


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Major Arcana archetypes are psychological constructs and ideas that are not available in solid form. We cycle through the archetypes and court card personalities on a daily basis. Court cards and archetypes reflect all of the different personalities living inside of you. You are a tarot Queen when in an empathetic state of mind and nurturing others. You are the Empress when at the height of your creative ability and being brilliant with your talents. You are the Emperor when you make routines and rules for yourself and stick to them. You are a Page when you are in a childlike and curious mood. We cycle through personalities, moods, and archetypes differently each day and on a moment to moment basis. Yet it is all invisible and ephemeral. The experience of our life occurs inside of us.


Your response to spirituality, the supernatural, creativity, etc., is interior and highly personal. No two people experience mystery in the same way.


“Are not all lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even at best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for and listening for?” ~ C.S. Lewis


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Arthur Waite offers us a map of how divinity (the universal life force, the godhead, a flower, whatever name you’d like to give it) unfolds in the material world via the tarot by connecting it with the Tree of Life. Once divinity moves down through the Tree and expresses itself in the material world, like a sunflower blooming in your garden, you are free to retrace these steps in reverse. You can moves back up the Tree, retracing the path of divinity. You reach the summit to look it squarely in the eye. Divinity sees you seeing it. Divinity wants you to recognize it as much as your soul wants to be seen and understood.


Have you ever fallen in love with a person or animal and felt them loving you back? It is the soul recognition in another. It usually happens when you least expected it, although you always desired it. Divinity’s been on Tinder looking for you all along. This is why love, especially new love, fills us with endorphin-like drug feelings. It is a hint, a gasp of the ecstatic love which created you. Once you truly “see” each other and recognize one another, like a lover’s kiss, a Big Bang explodes.


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Your Big Bang expresses itself though synchronicities and evolution in the material world. Uncanny synchronicity appears to let us know we chose well. We are right where we should be on our path, journey, adventure. You change on a cellular level. The material world changes with you. You find yourself responding to old habits and behaviors in a different way. Patterns change. Old challenges are with met with sudden clarity and solutions. You become more of who you are. The mystery of who you are unfolds.


The seeds of everything you are, everything you need, is right there. Just as the Magician has Cups, Wands, Swords and Pentacles on his table, your psyche, spirit, passions, and body is a self-sustaining kit with everything you need. I hope you tend to the garden of your soul. I hope you make use of the gifts enfolded and entrusted deep inside of you. May your gifts bring you joy. You make the world a more beautiful place by sharing them. I hope you stay true to your path. Hope you are willing to brave dark woods and creepy shadows when the going gets tough. Persevere through to claim the glittering treasure beyond. May you cycle through the tarot a million times over and find your deepest authenticity in every draw.


All the universe is planted inside of you.


It’s harvest time.


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Published on September 13, 2018 06:23

September 11, 2018

Back to School Instagram Tarot Giveaway

OMG Llewellyn’s Complete Book of the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot: A Journey Through the History, Meaning, and Use of the World’s Most Famous Deck has dropped! WOOT!


To celebrate the publication of my new book, I’ve partnered up with my friend The Tarot Lady for a fab tarot-fueled Instagram Giveaway!


What you’re gonna win: a copy of Llewellyn’s Complete Book of the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot: A Journey Through the History, Meaning, and Use of the World’s Most Famous Deck, The Tarot Coloring Book, and a mini Rider Waite Smith Tarot Deck. This is the PERFECT kit for mastering tarot – and getting super deep with the classic Rider Waite Smith deck! Yay!


All you gotta do is:


1. Like this post with The Back to Tarot School Instagram Giveaway.

2. Follow both accounts: @thetarotlady @sashatarotdiva

3. Tag friends for extra entries.



4. Get ten bonus entries by reposting the contest post in your Instastory or feed and tagging all accounts.

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Published on September 11, 2018 07:20

June 6, 2018

The Practical Magic of a Daily Gratitude Practice

Why is it so hard to do things that are good for yourself?


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I struggle when it comes to instilling simple, healthy habits. Like many of you, I’ve spent the better part of my life at war with myself, fighting to do things that are good for me.


Sure, I could sit and dissect someone else’s life all day long. Got an issue? Let’s pull out the tarot and sort it. Feeling scared and unworthy? I know you can do it! I’m the staunchest cheerleader for anyone other than the being staring out from behind my eyes. I know I’m not alone in this.


However, with age comes a newfound gentleness towards myself. At mid-life I’ve learned to step back and gaze at crazy, sexy, beautiful kaleidoscopic life directly, embracing it for what it is without resistance. The pleasure and the pain, the self-doubt and fear, the highs and the lows. To observe life as it unfolds from the larger part of myself extending beyond the physical body is a freedom beyond anything I’ve ever experienced.


It is a pleasure to realize the experience of our lives is just that, an experience. And if we pull back the reins on the petty, small, inconsequential habits keeping our ego firmly in place, our vision widens like the aperture of a camera or an aroused, responsive lover unfurling, relaxing and opening to allow more in. And I am nothing if not greedy when it comes to the good stuff. I want more, more, more. Don’t you?


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Years ago, I began a Daily Gratitude Practice with my sister and have been reaping the benefits ever since. It has the power to turn a crumby morning pleasant. The five or ten minutes I spend writing becomes a visioning place extending tendrils of magic into far reaches of the future. It is always, without fail good because honest, true gratitude is peaceful.


Morning rituals are powerful because they butterfly effect into your day. It is simple to slip into morning meditative or introspective space because you’ve just awakened from the unconscious underbelly sleep state. You are closer to the Moon/Star/Temperance pool of your subconscious, closer to possibility and your creative imagination.


How to Cultivate a Gratitude Practice



Choose a person to email every morning.

Plot and plan with this person. Ideally, your individual will email you with their gratitude list with symbiotic regularity. The gratitude practice is not a place to socialize or check in. Save that for a separate email. Begin each line in your email with, “I am grateful for …”



Get cozy, grab your morning coffee, tea or favorite drink.

This is the place for you to gather yourself, examine your interior, check in with how you feel and think about the things you want. Be sure you favorite morning beverage and soft blanket, pillows are handy and available.



List all the things you are grateful for.

Write a simple, honest list.


You may begin with gratitude towards your coffee, your favorite pj’s or the electricity illuminating the darkness. It doesn’t matter what you are grateful for as long as it is honest and true. If you are faking, you will feel it.



Don’t sweat it if you miss a morning.

I’ve run out the door without writing gratitude a million times. It’s easily to compile a list from my phone while sitting on the subway or waiting for an appointment. And if you miss it completely, well, there’s always tomorrow.



Add spice.

Write gratitude for things you long for that haven’t happened yet. Deliciousness will start unfolding. (Trust me on this one)!


Hope you give this a try. Let me know what your experience is like. And don’t hesitate with any questions in the comment section.


Once your gratitude email is complete, choose your tarot card of the day.


Good luck and cast your cards well!


Xo


 

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Published on June 06, 2018 10:33

May 31, 2018

A Six of Cups Summer Day and a Dead Body

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I place rosy tomatoes on my window sill because it’s what my grandmother Mimi always did. Tomatoes, like bananas, ripen better in the dark, but nothing is lovelier than a pop of red in summer haze. And Mimi liked things to look beautiful.


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The Six of Cups is the nostalgia card. My grandmother’s home is evoked each time I spy tomatoes in sunlight, smell smokey bacon cooking in the dampness of the kitchen or hear an airplane humming overhead on a hot summer day. Her home, my childhood summer residence, was a grand, old adventurous house, tucked away in woodsy green Connecticut. There were maid’s quarters, fireplaces in unexpended rooms, walk in closets full of evening gowns, fancy bathroom fixtures before those were the norm and even a mysterious death.


Her husband Don’s first wife, Bun, “fell” down the spiral stairs during an evening of heavy drinking. We all suspected she was pushed or her demise was the result of a boozy fight yet we rarely articulated our secret belief. I often paused at the bottom of the staircase when passing through. I imagined Bun’s limp body, bare leg up the stair, scarlet lipstick smeared across her dead face while Don stood above her man-screaming in sodden horror.


After imagining her death gaze, I’d whisper to her jealous specter. Are you watching us? Are you angry we are alive while you are stuck dead? Was it an accident, Bun, or were you pushed? Because, if he pushed you, I should know. I am here, very much alive in this house. I’d like to stay that way.


Bun’s ghost never replied. Only the staircase’s Greek statue knew the truth of that deadly evening. No matter how I stared at him down with my determined brown eyes, the white, naked twink wouldn’t give it up.


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The Six of Cups card is described as a walk down memory lane. It resides in the heart center of the Tree of Life at the number six, Beauty (Tiferet). Pamela Colman Smith’s image evokes sweetness and cozy thoughts. Yet for many of us, early memories are a murky stew of much darker things. Your child self will embrace darkness openly because we haven’t yet learned to be afraid of the line between right and wrong. We may have been in the hands of adults who didn’t know any better. Or our adults knew better and just didn’t care. As a child, you see things for what they are without judgment. This brings us closer to unedited truth. And truth is often as dark as a married couple fighting for their lives, up to their eyeballs and drowning in Smirnoff.


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The darkness doesn’t make me sad, it gives adult life texture and richness (although it wreaked havoc on my teens and twenties). Childhood darkness may threaten to swallow you whole but if you can make it through to the other side, darkness and depth becomes context as rich as the Mars Black shadows on an oil painting which define the entire work.


When the Six of Cups appears it is worth using the card not only as a springboard for earlier memories but as an opportunity to move back and examine the world through your child eyes. The glorious perception we all once had that many of us now struggle to regain.


It’s fun to let your memory hopscotch. It will bring you to surprising places if you allow it. What little habits and things do you do because someone you love taught you to? What deeper experiences do these habits, like tomatoes on a window sill, connected you to? Its worth taking a look …


Cast your cards wisely.


Speaking of tomatoes … check out my video for Lovers Grilled Cheese and Creamy Tomato Soup – the perfect pizza soup for a fussy eater

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Published on May 31, 2018 09:03

May 2, 2018

The Enchanted Kitchen’s Global Dinner Party, Readers Studio and Tarot Traveling

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What are you dreaming about?
Never doubt the power of your intentions!

Once upon a time, my tarot teacher, Wald Amberstone of the Tarot School, told me a story about a woman who traveled all over the world with her tarot cards (my dream). She used them like a magic carpet. An uncanny feeling overcame me. Was he reading me? Telling me my future? Hinting at what was possible?


 Turns out he was!


 Since them, I’ve flown on the wings of 78 cards to London, Paris, Turin and recently to mysterious Chengdu, China. The above pic is the last day of China, sitting in the Wide and Arrow Alleys.


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London bus shot on the way to dinner with my fellow tarot presenters from UK Tarot Conference, Eiffel Tower shot from a boat, aperitifs in Turin during Lo Scarabeo’s 30th anniversary celebration and the Wenshu Yuan Temple in Chengdu.


What do you want?

May is the perfect time to focus on what you want between now and Halloween.


~ Select an achievable goal or intention.


~ Select a tarot card representing it.


~ Keep the card where you can see it or screen shot it on your phone.


“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”   T.S. Elliot


The Enchanted Kitchen Updates

The Enchanted Kitchen, my new tarot inspired, intentional cooking series partnered with Heyou Media and launched in April. Thanks to you it was a smash success with over 170,000 views!


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Click and cook:


High Priestess Tea Sandwiches


Lover’s Cheesey Tomato Soup


Empress Salad


Fool’s Croque Madame


9 of Pentacles Lava Cake for One


The Magician Herbed Risotto


 



Empress Cherry, Walnut and Goat Cheese Salad

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Intentions: Passion, Creativity, Fertility
Magical Tips: Cherries align with sex, Goat Cheese aligns with female intuition, Apples are pure magic and Walnuts offer grounding qualities.
Serves 6
Salad Ingredients:
1/2 cup walnuts, chopped and toasted
1 cup dried cherries
2 medium granny smith apples
4 cups mixed field greens 10-ounce goat cheese log sliced at room temp.

Dressing
2 tablespoons cider vinegar
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
1 teaspoon shallots, minced
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon sugar
6 tablespoons olive oil

 


We celebrated The Enchanted Kitchen with an Enchanted Global Dinner Party!


People around the world cooked and shared gorgeous meals, snacks and drinks.


​​​​​​​Beatrice in Switzerland was inspired by the Star card and made:


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Prosecco with Bee Balm Syrup


serves 2


3 ounces of ice cold Prosecco

11/2 ounces of Bee Balm Syrup

3 ounces of Sparkling Water

A splash of fresh lime juice


Make the bee balm syrup in June from the fresh blooming flowers.

Syrup Ingredients:

1 cup of spring water

1 cup of sugar

1 1/2-2cups of bee balm flowers

1 tablespoon of lemon juice.


Bring water and sugar to boil. Add fresh flowers, squeeze in the fresh lemon juice and stir well. Cover and let sit overnight. In the morning strain and reheat to a boil, before pouring it into a canning bottle.


Decorate with a piece of lime and enjoy!


“Cooking is like love – it should be entered into with abandon or not at all.”


~ Harriet Van Horn


 


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Readers Studio 2019!

April 26th – 28th, 2019


I’m pleased and honored to be a Main Stage Presenter at Readers Studio 2019 along with:


George Koury Ethony Dawn!


A Day of Divination includes presentations by Heatherleigh Navarre (crystal ball & mediumship), Rana George (Lenormand) & Carrie Paris (charm casting).


 


Happy May and cast your cards well!


You are pure magic!


 

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Published on May 02, 2018 09:11

April 4, 2018

Introducing: “The Enchanted Kitchen with Sasha Graham,” an Intentional, Mindful, Tarot Culinary Adventure!

Thrilled to release the first season of The Enchanted Kitchen, a tarot culinary adventure!


Have you ever used a tarot card to inspire your meal or help you decide what to make for dinner?


Let’s elevate everyday cooking into mindful manifestation. The sky is the limit!


Click through all six episodes to cultivate magic in the kitchen:




















Which one is your favorite episode?


Do you have any magical tricks in the kitchen?


If so, leave them in the comment section.


The world needs your magic!


xo


 



 


 


 

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Published on April 04, 2018 07:19

April 2, 2018

Spring Magic

Can you feel it?


There’s a particular magic to this Spring.


Everything feels awake, profound and powerful.


I’ve got a few cards up my sleeve up at my Catskill farmhouse.


I can’t wait to show you my hand on April 4th!!!


 



Until then …


Align with the energy of Spring.


Feel what’s blossoming inside you.


Cast your cards well.

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Published on April 02, 2018 07:59

March 29, 2018

Magic Happening April 4th, 2018

Stay tuned! Something delicious is coming your way April 4th!

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Published on March 29, 2018 06:49

March 20, 2018

“Suits Me” Spring Equinox Tarot Spread

Is it just me or is this Spring wielding a wild, wicked energy?


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The sun pops out like an illicit kiss warming your body. “Yessss,” you sigh under your breath, giving all of yourself to the solar brilliance, letting it have its way with you, only to open your eyes and find snow swirling at your feet. Fat snowflakes turn to rain and there goes your electricity for five days because heavy wet snapping branches took down your power lines.


Truthfully it’s just March being March. It’s easy to forget how March is like a drunk texter or toddler, tempermental and unpredictable. Maybe that’s why everyone rolls their eyeballs at March and you don’t too meet many people named after it.


Our forgetfulness of seasonal hallmarks veils the gift of lost knowledge. [image error]Nothing compares to the first smell of upturned Spring earth, the first aching blood orange, tangerine squeezed sunset, the scent of Fall’s sweet decaying crunchy leaves and the sharp bite of November frost floating in the air. It is ecstatic reunion, a recognition of love because you’ve forgotten something could look, smell and feel this good.


Seasonal treasures are like our deepest, truest friends, regardless of how much time elapses ~ we reunite like no time has passed. Your comfort in their presence is complete, like they have always been there. We bask in familiar delight and appreciation.


Here is a special tarot spread marking tender Spring’s triumphant return. No matter what winter has bestowed upon you, steady yourself and gather your strength. Take a deep breath and shuffle your cards. We are in a unique time and place in history. The world needs your love, compassion and intelligence like never before.


Suits Me Spring Equinox Spread


Point of Spread: Make a list of Spring goals, messages and wisdom. Mediate, consider and revisit the list each day with your card a day practice up until the Summer Solstice. Use the four suits of tarot as inspiration. The spread is grounded with a Major Arcana message.


How: Shuffle the entire deck while thinking about what this particular Spring means to you. What have you been focusing on? Where do you spend your energy? What feels new and fresh? What feels old and played out? Where were you this time last year?


Select Cards: Pull cards until you have one Major Arcana and a single card of each suit.


Wands          Swords


      Major Arcana


Pentacles      Cups


Free write or journal the messages that appear for you with each card drawn. These are your goals for Spring.


The Major Arcana card will offer you a state of being and a grounding force to consider.


Compress the reading into a simple list of goals/messages. Keep this list with or near your tarot deck. Pull out the list and reread after performing your card-a-day practice (or when you read the cards) every day until the Summer Solstice on June 21st.


Good luck!


My draw:


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My interpretation:


Major Arcana: This imagery was a welcome surprise. It evokes Carl Sagan’s quote, “The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”


Maggie’s image reminds us that WE ARE STARS. As above, so below.


My grounding force and message ~ I am as vast and mysterious as the universe. Release unneeded stress and troublesome thoughts. It is meaningless chatter. Dive into the mystery of the present moment to allow new worlds of possibility to unfold.


Six of Wands goal and message: Prepare for success. Focus your fire energy and passion towards the objects you are working towards. Additionally, I’ve been embarking on building internal fire in my yoga practice to burn away inauthentic behavior. Wands are holding a special meaning for me at the present moment.


Queen of Swords goal and message: Be articulate, specific and direct. How I adore the Queen of Swords, my master novelist and articulate goddess.


Three of Cups goal and message: Lighten up and have fun. In addition to the creativity of the number three, this card says remain open for fun, laughs and good feelings where you can get it. If ever there was a season where I needed to lighten up, this would be it.


Six of Coins goal and message: Be open to share and receive financial gifts. Message received!!!


Hope you enjoy this spread!


If you love tarot spreads check out my “365 Tarot Spreads” book so you never find yourself wondering what question to ask.


Additionally, my newest book, “Llewellyn’s Complete Book of the Rider Waite Smith Tarot” is available for pre-order!


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Happy Spring.


Cast your cards well!


*All cards in this post come from the gorgeous Raven’s Prophecy Tarot from Maggie Stiefavter. Check it out!


 


 


 


 


 




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Published on March 20, 2018 05:52

March 12, 2018

Talking Pamela Colman Smith on Tarot Bytes Podcast with Theresa Reed

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If you love the Rider Waite Smith Tarot deck check out this great podcast I recently appeared on:


https://www.thetarotlady.com/tarot-bytes-episode-66-history-rider-waite-smith-deck-sasha-graham/


Theresa Reed and I talk about:


~ How you can conduct groundbreaking historical research in Tarot.


~ Unpacking Arthur Waite’s mysterious text.


~ How you embody Pamela Colman Smith when you read the cards.


~ Myths surrounding the Rider Waite Smith deck.


And don’t forget to pre-order :


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Published on March 12, 2018 14:46

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