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Wednesday: Known as the Nostalgia Card we take a trip into the past and that of a child’s tea party with invited guests of stuffed toys and loving guardians placating a child’s innocence and simple pleasures. A card that asks us to find a happy place to be, to be joyful. That feeling of things being alright in the world regardless of what is actually happening. Can we find some of this delicious innocence? A card of charm and creativity. Of regeneration, sensitivity and wi

Wednesday: On this last day of June we have our life giving filling for our ace sandwich, the bright, shiny and closest star, the sun. The card of enlightenment.. The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by A E Waite quotes it so eloquently from its first publication in 1911: ‘When the self-knowing spirit has dawned in the consciousness above the natural mind, that mind in its renewal leads forth the animal nature in a state of perfect conformity.’ In other words, when we, as animals,

Wednesday: We welcome our royal visitor of this week and engage with his attributes of authority, leadership and protector. Kings are of the fire element so bring their own passion to the fore and the Cups are of the water element so maybe together we can create some steam today, or balance the two and have a lovely warm bathe. This is a card of achievement and dominance in an area of emotional or spiritual interest. It is the energy of paternal care. Our king has travelled t

Wednesday: First of two tens and today from the wands suit. Last with us on Friday, we are again being reminded of its energy and how is can assist us today. First off, tens are about endings and beginnings. They are about completion, the end of a cycle and also of perfection. We are being asked to ‘lighten our load’. How many of us burden ourselves with things in this life because we ‘think’ we should? What we may ask ourselves is, ‘Is this really what I want for my life?’ P

Wednesday: Do the ends justify the means? Today we have ‘the dark angel drawing his sword’. The Shadowscapes Companion book says of this card that it is: ‘. . . a sign of discord and conflict of interests. The choices arrayed make it easy to profit and look to one’s own concerns, for it feels the world is allied against you. Perhaps a wider view of the world might eclipse this feeling.’ Fives are of activity, change and versatile in the positive while in the negative aspect

Wednesday: Our second major arcana for this week weighs in with the energy of Strength in a month/year with the numerology of the master number 11. There is great play in the planets currently as we have eclipse season having kicked off at the last full moon. The next annular solar eclipse being on the 10th (11:41hrs GMT) with the new moon on the 11th and Solstice on the 21st. As much as so much happens outside of ourselves in this life, we are guided through those energies t

Wednesday: Today we have the powerful full moon in Sagittarius at 12:13hours British Summer Time (BST) which is GMT +1. Not only full but also a super-moon and an unusual total lunar eclipse exact at 12:18hours; *’actual length of time in full eclipse will only be 14mins 30secs.’1430 = 8 in numerology, as is the number of today’s card. Eights are continuum, infinity, about money and power. The negative side can be authoritarian, careless and greedy. With a full moon, wishes c

Wednesday: We haven’t seen this card for a while though it used to be a regular if not in the daily readings then in the other readings I do. I call it ‘Caught up in the briar patch (while joy is within our reach).’ Kind of says it all in one sentence. We can easily lose ourselves in the drama of the moment where we do not perceive a way out, when it is nigh impossible to see that which lies ahead of us and, with this card, that future is joy. Negativity is the energy and fea

Wednesday: Another perfect card as we bask in the energy of yesterdays new moon. Today’s major arcana’s fated energy brings us the Hermit, number 9. Nines are about healing and understanding. The card is associated with the Sun sign of Virgo which is a practical and pragmatic earth sign. Can we adopt some of this energy into our lives today? The card asks us to look within ourselves and to overcome internal blocks by shining a light on them. This fits well with the new moon e

Wednesday: The mother energy of all creation. She creates from love and nurtures. She takes herself to the best place to be to work with the energies and create from there. She freely releases her creation so that they can grow as is a pattern of the journey of life. Knowing when to release and being joyous to do so. Not being in the ego mind that wants to hold onto things that were never ours to own. All life is entitled to their own freedom to be to live their destiny which

Wednesday: A visit from the last Queen in the deck, the penultimate card – how wise then she must be to have travelled the journeys through to the end. But then what? We start again, for there is no ending, we are on a never ending journey that is change, and creation. Personally I don’t like any form of hierarchy symbolism such as ladders etc. and so I asked Spirit to show me something else, they gave me a flat grid with many squared of spaces – we are all in different box

Wednesday: Another nice follow on from the day before. We are the ones with our ‘fingers on the keys’. We are the ones who can choose the tune of life we want to hear and fashion it in the way that works for us alone. We don’t need a script, a song-sheet that someone else has created for them. We can feel the music, allowing our fingers to find the keys intuitively as we connect with our heart. This card is about staying true to ourselves. Allowing our own pace to dictate our

Wednesday: Two days on from the new moon we have the fortuitous and prosperous ace of pentacles. Aces are our gifts from the Universe, the new beginnings, potential but on which we have to take action for ‘nothing grows in a void.’ The Shadowscapes Companion book says: ‘It is the possibility of prosperity, abundance and security. It is the promise of wealth and well-being, of flourishing and reaping the rewards of hard work. Energy spent will see returns. A seed has been drop

Wednesday: Another visit from a ten card and today in the suit of wands. The number of ending and beginning, when we come full circle and then off we go again on another adventure or journey; the endless spiral of life. I want to bring in some excitement with this card today. Wands are about creativity, expansion and will. They are fire energy so bring us passion. Like all fires that passion can be unleashed or tempered as we wish to experience it. We all have our own limitat

Wednesday: A card of ‘grief and heartbreak, loneliness, separation and isolation’ – the Shadowscapes Companion book says: ‘Overcome the pain, the weeping of the heart is perhaps a necessary cleansing. Let that torment drain away; be purified of the black blood and then lift up white wings to dance with the sky once again.’ This too shall pass is a useful mantra to get us through difficult times. What doesn’t serve us is to let our ego mind keep us in pain, like wearing a badg

Wednesday: My description for this card is ‘going against the grain’ and either we are the one ‘pushing against the tide’ or ‘running with the pack’. Today’s energy could see us falling into either camp. Today I am being made aware that flamboyant gestures are unnecessary if we should find that we are the one in a different place to a group of others. Look out for ourselves today and allow others to make their own decisions also. We can choose to go with them or go on our own

Wednesday: Our second two this week following yesterdays Wands. Together side by side they bring us the Master Builder numerology of 22. A balanced number, a bringing together of the material and the spiritual with the power of inner wisdom. The Shadowscapes Companion books says of this card that it is: ‘about making a connection, a union, a partnership. It is the bringing together of opposites and the potential for bonding. It is relationship. Like a living organism, relatio

Wednesday: Drawn straight to the Shadowscapes Companion book once more to share for today's card: ‘It is the possibility of creativity excitement, adventure, a challenge to step forward with courage and confidence. . . . Seize this wild opportunity and glory in the blaze.’ Ace of Wands is the first card of the suit and the minor arcana. It is full of fire energy and of the essence of new beginnings. This energetic card is about moving towards what excites you; always a good s

Wednesday: Staying with the suit of wands today we have a visit from the card also known as ‘The Wounded Warrior.’ The energy that I feel with this is that ‘there is no point in crying over spilt milk’ that just makes it doubly worse! Time to look beyond all that has happened and allow ourselves to move forward with more of a spring in our step. Today planet Mars enters the sun sign of Gemini bringing us some ease to our movement than that of late. The book talks about mainta

Wednesday: We return to Cups today and the change energy of the number five. Did we heed the royal call yesterday and jump to action, or did we listen to our emotions and intuition doing what was right for us? How do you feel if I tell you I had a day of in-action yesterday? Does that ‘rub you up the wrong way’ or are you comfortable that we all have to do what is right for us, regardless what others tell us? We are in charge of our own lives! A card today of challenge, poss