Desert Oracle

Having visited the Meetup website, a friend and I were amazed to discover over 100 people waiting for someone to start a Tarot Meetup group in our area. She is very interested in getting something going; I’m still pondering it (since I already co-facilitate our small Tarot Circle, although some new blood would be welcome…) I [...]

Friends and readers of Desert Oracle, Phil here again, with good news! I have updated the feeds for this website and everything appears to be in working order. All subscriptions carried over, and feeds are still being published just fine. If feeds stop updating for some reason, please send me an email so I can [...]

When Martien and Teressena Bakens (creators of the Fifth Tarot) contacted me to enlist my help in setting up their experiential workshop here, I was only too happy to help. In eager anticipation, I pulled 3 cards about it. Here they are:   Emperor: We need to have a good structure in place for the [...]

“When the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars, Then peace will guide the planets, and love will steer the stars. This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius…”  (Aquarius from Hair, by Gerome Ragni and James Rado) In the late 1960s, the Broadway musical Hair popularized the above in the [...]

Friends and readers of Desert Oracle, Phil here, with a quick update about what’s going on with the website. I run this website behind the scenes, and before the month is out, I will be making one fairly big change. Desert Oracle utilizes Feedburner to power feeds, which you may be subscribed to in a [...]

There are a few ways to determine one’s Tarot birth cards, and I won’t go into all of them here. I have played around with them, and prefer Mary Greer’s system, as outlined in her book Tarot for Yourself  (it also correlates with my favorite book on numerology, Dan Millman’s The Life You Were Born [...]

This is a reading we did at yesterday’s Tarot Circle, combining Tarot with an oracle. We pulled a focus card from Caroline Myss’ Wisdom for Healing deck, then laid a Tarot spread around it. My focus card was Take Steps to Get Healthy – perfect choice. My doctor wants me to exercise more, and I [...]