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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No Apology: I’m Jealous and That’s the Way It Is
I’m a jealous girl. And that is by no means an apology. It is a statement of fact. An acknowledgement of a “darker” emotion that we, as humans are supposed to keep under tight control or be judged as inferior and that we as spiritual beings aren’t supposed to have at all— exorcised, I suppose,…
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I Run My Household (or Does It Run Me?)
Yay! I’ve been productive at home and I have things to show for it! Of course, you can’t tell that by looking at my house. It’s completely trashed right now, what with furniture moved all over the place and stuff stacked to the ceiling and other stuff dusty from the repair work. But it’s done.…
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The Empath’s Paradox
As an empath, I like that I can have that kind of connection to people I care about. With my girls, it’s really an advanced form of maternal instinct or bonding. I’ll often know when one of my kids is upset or stressed, even before Shannon swears she’s fine or Aislinn gives me her patented…
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Energy Work: Winds of Change?
Be these the winds of change? I’m used to the unusual by now. I’ve become sensitive to certain energies, sensations, feelings. Every now and then, one surprises me. On the altar in my bedroom, I keep an arrangement of five Tarot cards representing specific things I am manifesting. These are special cards to me. I…
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Huge Shifts
I feel like I’m watching train wrecks in slow motion. It’s all too heavy and too big and too powerful to stop. There’s nothing I can do or say to make any of it stop, to put brakes on these locomotives, and all I can do is sort of back off far enough to watch…
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The Wheel Turns
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Crimes to the Third Degree. A lot of my friends moved last year, either to marry or for job opportunities. When I say a lot, I mean most of them. I don’t blame them—the Wheel turns and provides narrow windows of opportunity, and you take them or you…
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Roses, Valentines, and Prostitution
Is Valentine’s Day really just a sanctioned form of prostitution? I don’t say this simply because I don’t have a sweet- heart this February 14th—I’ve been un-enamored of the holiday for several years. And that’s pretty funny coming from a hope- less romantic like me. From the Bookshelf Rite of Letting Go — a Southern…
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This Is What I’ve Been Missing ?
Mary and I had agreed that we’d both seen the souls of men in our lives, but we were wrong. Maybe we’d felt their souls. Or maybe we’d just wanted to believe they had really opened up at some point and let us see inside to their core to something so deep and unknown and …
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Hearing Voices
What is that strange sound? That voice I hear at home and in my car and sometimes at work? From the Bookshelf Rite of Letting Go — a Southern witch must reclaim her magic and protect her family before she loses everything. Available direct from the author → The girls are off to spend a…
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Drawing the Two of Cups
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Life in the Third Degree. Twice in the past month, I’ve drawn the Two of Cups. It’s one of the most beautiful cards in my Arthurian Tarot deck. A man and woman stand together aboard a dragon-faced ship, locked in a deep embrace, her head against his chest,…
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From Heartbreak to Higher Ground: Turning Points in Our Lives
When you’re in the midst of a heartbreak or trauma, it’s very easy to feel stuck in the muck. I have come to see the turning points of my life in a different light, because that’s exactly what the worst moments of my life have been: turning points… turning to something better, even if that…
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The Passionate Queen of Wands
Originally published in Third Degree Curves “Oh,” he says, picking up the Tarot card. He’s incredibly gifted, yet this is a new experience for him. He’s never seen these cards before, but I think they’re pretty and I share them to get his opinion. “The Lovers are a combination of the Prince of Cups and…
