Desert Oracle

A few weeks ago, I attended the 20th anniversary of the Bay Area Tarot Symposium (BATS), sponsored by the amazing Thalassa and her minions, the Daughters of Divination. It is a two-day festival celebrating all things Tarot, and offers workshops and lectures by the crème de la crème of Tarot authors and deck creators. This [...]

After attending the Fifth Tarot experiential workshop last week, I have been searching for a good spread to use with it. I am really connecting with this deck on a deep level. Browsing some of the PDR blogs, I found Geraldine Ameral’s Golden Shadow spread from her wonderful book Tarot Celebrations  (Geraldine was an amazing [...]

“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 [...]

Here we go again…the planet Mercury goes retrograde today, January 11, through Feb 1.  Many people know what not to do during this time: sign contracts, purchase electronic/mechanical devices, depend on your luggage arriving at your destination, etc. But what are some of the lessons to be learned during a Mercury retrograde period? One of [...]