This spread looks at fulfillment potential in each of four sets of circumstances: Actions (Fire), Emotions (Water), Ideas (Air) and Sensations (Earth). The Aces of Wands (Doing), Cups (Feeling), Swords (Thinking) and Pentacles (Being) are placed in advance at the head of their elemental columns as the "root" energy for that particular manifestation. Aces High … Continue reading The “Aces High” Motivational Outlook Spread
The “Decision Stream” Spread
This is a simple decision-making spread that evaluates the pros and cons of up to four options, although it can easily be expanded to cover more than four by adding input streams. Decision Stream Spread
The “Inconvenient Truths” Personal Encounter Spread
Now back to our regular programing . . . This spread is designed to examine head-on encounters between two people with potentially very different agendas and expectations. It's purpose is not so much to find common ground as to minimize negative exposure to the querent. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ty1wbq0b42ljg6t/The%20Inconvenient%20Truths%20Personal%20Encounter%20Spread.pdf?raw=1
A Fundamentalist Sex-Education Fable
I think even the Shakers would have caught the satirical drift of this one! Maybe the Tea Party would endorse teaching it in Sunday School. "In the beginning were the primordial “dot” [ . ] and the “cipher” [ 0 ]. Excitation of these principals soon begat the “exclamatory” [ ! ] and the “parenthetical … Continue reading A Fundamentalist Sex-Education Fable
A Common Core Fable
My wife was an elementary school math teacher before her retirement, and deplored the aberration that is Common Core arithmetic. I decided to poke some well-deserved fun at it. The New York Times reports that President Obama has just appointed a blue-ribbon panel of musicians – headed by internationally renowned fantasy author Douglas Adams – … Continue reading A Common Core Fable
A HazMat Fable
For years I had been stewing over the fact that I can no longer buy oil-based deck stain due to environmental concerns over its manufacture. The regulations were a Clinton-era initiative (1998), and resulted in the replacement water-borne products being entirely unsatisfactory. I decided to vent my frustration in a little humor. This one is … Continue reading A HazMat Fable
I, Gadfly
I confess to being more than a little curmudgeonly when it comes to all things political; I think the only good politician is a retired one (even I'm not cruel enough to say a "dead one"), and then only if the obscene life-long retirement benefits are rescinded. My displeasure is of the non-partisan "equal-opportunity" type, … Continue reading I, Gadfly
Window to Another World
I no longer remember where this came from, but it offers helpful advice for the unalloyed (if there is such a thing) use of intuition in reading tarot cards. Personally, I agree fully with the last sentence but find the rest just a little too ingenuous, since human mental activity - no matter how inspired, … Continue reading Window to Another World
Gerald Suster’s New Age Rant
I've already expressed my growing lack of enthusiasm for all things "New Age" (aka "the Piscean Pipe-dream" and "the False Spring") due to its slow decline into commercialism and faddish superficiality. But I'm an absolute piker compared to the vitriol of esoteric writer Gerald Suster; his rhetoric could peel paint. "The Three of Wands is … Continue reading Gerald Suster’s New Age Rant
Serena’s Tarot Light-bulb Joke
I haven't read this one in a while, but thought I would share it because it offers a lot of sound tarot wisdom in humorous form (© 1999 by Serena Powers). Q: How many Major Arcana does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: All of them: • The Fool has already started … Continue reading Serena’s Tarot Light-bulb Joke
