Category: Tarot
Reflections on tarot — card meanings, spreads, intuitive readings, and the moments when the deck names what you already half-knew. Spans personal practice, learning notes, and the threads where tarot meets astrology and ritual.
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Novel Tarot: The Fool Card – Rider-Waite Deck
I love beautiful tarot and oracle cards, so for each chapter of each novel I write, I draw a card from one of my decks and read it intuitively. For this chapter, I drew the Fool Card in the Rider-Waite Deck. See the bottom of the page for information about the novel. Featured: Too Near…
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What I Learned from #100HappyDays
My friends convinced me to share their #100happydays or #100daysofhappiness with them, but somewhere along the way, they’ve let it drop. Too much a chore, I suppose. Or not enough happiness. Or too much crap from other people for being happy. When I embarked on this one-photo-a-day of “happiness,” it wasn’t to force myself to…
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Sacred Spaces: Bathroom Makeover, Kitchen Touchup
Part of making my home into a “sacred space” has been putting my personality into the walls, floors, ceilings, with my latest inspiration room being a small bathroom makeover with a touchup in the kitchen. The unusal feature I had not seen before was the use of PVC Backsplash tile bought from Home Depot. The…
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Health: Relief for Painful Knees
It’s been 15 years since I’ve worn heels. In 2004, upon ordering me to physical therapy just to be able to walk without tears, my physician declared that I’d be a “flats girl” for the rest of my life. My dates have seen me wear high heels only when I’m sitting and swinging legs and…
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Damn You, Law of Attraction, Damn You
Be careful what you wish for, especially in how you frame your desire with words. Sometimes I think the Universe is sitting back, howling, slapping its all-powerful knee, and saying, “Hey, the Law of Attraction always works! You received exactly what you asked for!” One of the things I’d put on my list of intentions…
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I Can Never Get Caught Up—and That’s a Good Thing
I used to kick myself all the time because I could never get caught up. No matter how many hundreds of things I scratched off my to-do list on any given weekend, I would fall into bed on Sunday night feeling like a failure because there was always so much more to do. My last…
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Applied Astrology: Neptune-Sun Relationships
This exploration delves into the astrological Neptune-Sun conjunction, revealing its dual nature of idealistic romance or deceptive entanglements. After my first Neptune-Sun relationship ended, I became fascinated with what astrology tells us about this conjunction—to the point that I tried for the next 6 months to date nothing but men with the same birthday as…
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Not So Clear but Present
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Passion to the Third Degree. I have not slept well the past two nights. There’s turbulent energy in the air around me. For the past two days, the Ten of Pentacles has been standing in front of me. I see him in my mind’s eye. From the Bookshelf…
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The Lovers Card
I’m trying to explain to my daughter why even meeting a love interest is harder over 40 than it was at 18. People acquire lots of baggage in the interim—debts, children, bankruptcies, alcohol afflictions, trauma, criminal records…wives. Okay, yes, I admit that when I meet anyone even remotely interesting, the first thing I do is…
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Changing the Negative to Positive with Visual Aids
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Love in the Third Degree. I’m a visual kind of girl. Always have been. I need to be able to see what things look like, to take what’s in my mind’s eye and see it in front of me. It’s part of moving my desire from mental to…
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January Goals
While I keep an overall “intention” for the year, I’m breaking it down into nice bite-sized pieces every month. What I “call in” are the feelings and “moments” for the month and I don’t always know how those will manifest, but when it comes to the bite sizes to make the rest happen, they just…
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The Heart of an Artist
Artists wear their work like a second skin, and flinch when their art is not as cared for, particularly by someone important to them. And when their art is appreciated, they glow. From the Bookshelf Rite of Letting Go — a Southern witch must reclaim her magic and protect her family before she loses everything.…
