HOW TO RECOVER WHAT YOU LOST

Last night I discovered that my standard cards, the hand-stenciled Jean Noblet Marseille Tarot (by Jean Flornoy) that I use for all my client readings, had gone missing. The horror, the horror. As it was past midnight, I was just about to go to bed, when I found myself in a frenzy, looking for them.

COSMIC WEDDING

I woke up this morning, I had an aromatic cup of coffee in the middle of the wilderness, and I was well intent on saluting the cosmic wedding. In astrological parlance, when the Sun and the Moon are in their signs of exaltation, the Sun in Aries and the Moon in Taurus, we talk about

THE PATHETIC FALLACY

Where the problem of agency is concerned, as in cartomancy whose many rules have been derived from astrological correspondences, so in astrology. In classical astrology, as in classical fortunetelling, it is crucially important to know who is who and doing what to whom. How do we assign significators to the many actors playing a natal,

THE SHAWL

Let’s see if I can kill two birds with one stone in this post. Today I got two remarks about my interest in astrology – which I have always regarded as remote, a fact that, however, has never stopped me from flirting with this discipline on a daily basis. FIRST BIRD Situation: My friend, Dana, wanted

YEW TREE

The thing about living the magical life is that it requires no beliefs of any kind whatsoever. What magical living requires is practice. Either you do things, such as roam the woods and get a sense of nature and its cycles, or you find a system that allows you to read the signs in nature.

ABANDONED HOUSE

I’m on vacation in Sweden where I often come when autumn turns sublime. Today I walked up through heavy woods near Knäred to an abandoned house. I’ve been there before. I’m fascinated with the house, as it looks as if the ones who left it, left it in a hurry never to return. The curtains