Desert Oracle

It’s the morning of Christmas Eve, and I have decided to look ahead at the New Year. The year 2010 will be an Empress year (2+0+1+0=3); adding in my birth day & month (10/1) gives me a Hierophant year (2+0+1+0+1+0+1=5), underscored by the Empress. So, more teaching and learning to come, in a more relaxed [...]

I will be attending the Bay Area Tarot Symposium in San Francisco on October 3rd and 4th.  The theme is a celebration of the Waite-Smith Tarot, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. This will be my 3rd BATS, a wonderful weekend of Tarot produced by the amazing Thalassa and the Daughters of Divination. Presenters [...]

In my collection of Tarot spreads, I came across one I have not used before…the Back to School Spread by Mark McElroy. It’s goal is to “help you realize your growth as a Tarot reader, identify areas for further exploration & growth, and find the resources to seed new growth”. Enjoying my Labor Day holiday, [...]

Where has the summer gone? It’s August, and almost time to go back to work. I haven’t done a PDR reading in a while, and have missed working with the Fifth Tarot. So, in this time of transition, I have used the Five Card Spread from Art Rosengarten’s Tarot of the Nine Paths. I chose returning [...]

Having just finished reading Don Miguel Ruiz’ The Four Agreements, I decided to try out Kilted Kat’s spread (I tweaked it a bit). The book/spread is based on 4 principles for effective living. Here are my results (the agreements are in bold): Be impeccable with your word. This will help me to speak my Truth: [...]

In preparation for attending the Tarot School’s 2009 Readers Studio, I decided to pull three cards for a preview/overview of the event. I used a three-card spread by Leisa ReFalo of the Tarot Connection. Here are the results: 1. What to keep – The High Priestess: A great card here! I will keep in touch [...]

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 [...]

Fourteen Tarot lovers gathered last night for Martien and Teressena Bakens’ experiential workshop with the Fifth Tarot. It was a feast for all five senses, incorporating the use of movement and essential oils created specifically for the deck. I will attempt to provide a summary of the evening, but realize that the evening was much [...]

March 28th was the first meeting of our local Tarot Meetup. We had around 20 people attend, with a wide variety of experience with the Tarot. Some were complete beginners, some had a few years’ experience, a few were simply curious, still others are students with the OTO, who are studying the Crowley deck in [...]

Ahhh…spring is here (although if you look at our weather, you would swear that spring began in January!) and so is spring break! A week away from school and the time to do whatever I choose. Our first Tarot Meetup group will convene on Saturday the 28th. My co-organizer and I will meet this week [...]